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We are tired people.

Friday began with loads of frantic cleaning. The 4 Rices arrived around 8:30PM from their week in Boston and day in Amherst (where they consumed pizza from Antonio's!). L brought me a bag of yummy cookies from the Henion Bakery, my most favorite bakery in MA, which used to make this amazing black olive bread and the best danish i ever had. The cookies were all excellent: citrusy and nutty florentines, hearty coffee chunk, chewy dried cherry and real oatmeal cream pies! It was a large soft oatmeal cookie, sliced into half moons and filled with a light, sweet cream cheese filling. In a taste test, it would cream the Little Debbie version. For dinner, the Rices, be and i ate at Dow Thong. One of Ian's favorite dishes is pad Thai, so he had that (so did i!) while be had his usual shrimp pad sew ew, L ordered a vegetable dish and dude had eggplant. The meal was delicious; dude even proclaimed that their pad Thai was the best he ever had!

Saturday included a moral dilemma. During our lunch at Hunan Delight in Park Slope, not only did dude look like he was about to cry while eating his broccoli, zucchini, eggplant and garlic sauce, but temptations to move back took hold - all due to the power of one dish. Ian drew be a picture of Harley, on which he wrote, "iCat."

Sunday was the start of the cleaning/painting frenzy. be and i spent 2 days painting 2 rooms of our apartment. For the final outcome, you'll have to see it for yourself so take a trip out to Queens! We had some pizza at Dino's on Broadway for a late lunch. For dinner, i made a meal of potato patties with beet tops, fake chicken chunks, sauteed zucchini and beet stems with basalmic vinegar, which was quite tasty considering the vegetables weren't at their freshest.

Monday contained a visit to the East Village Cheese Shop, where we snagged a $19.08 bagload of cheese and butter goodness! Nothing was over $1.99: 2 rounds of Boursin, 2 sticks of Lurpak chile & lime butter, 1 basket of French butter with sea salt crystals, 1 round of Camembert from Normandie, 1 marinated string cheese, 1 packet of sliced Colby, 2 Mediterranean feta crumbles, 2 goat cheeses and 2 boxes of crackers!! If you're going to buy cheese, this is the only place to do it; most of the products are imported and the prices are unbeatable! The day didn't include a full meal, though; over the day we ate: potato patties, soup, bread & butter, cheese, cereal, dumplings and candy.

posted by beXn @ 3:22 AM