It's February, which means March is almost here. March has many good things. It has my birthday, my wedding anniversary with Bizarro (5 years), and Spring Break, for which I am headed to the land of my birthing (South Shore of Boston).
The new schedule is starting to feel a little more sane. I am not worried about it at this point. I am happy as a clam to have all this work and to have a plan for summer (teach screenwriting in Korea).
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Photos from the Anniversary Wine Tour
Us at Lucas Winery:
RED CAT!!!
Compare this lovely tasting room...
With this "Winery-in-a-shed":
RED CAT!!!
Compare this lovely tasting room...
With this "Winery-in-a-shed":
Back to Life, Back to Reality...
Our fabulous weekend of celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary is just about over. We checked out of the B&B at 11:00 this morning, and at this point I am still unwilling to enter into all the trappings of things that make up my daily life. Thankfully I got all the searingly important things done before Friday, so I can coast into tomorrow.
It was a lovely if overcast weekend. Friday night we were both exhausted and found out that the Glass Magnolia's (our B&B) dining room isn't open for the season, yet, so we drove to a place down the road called Woodside Roadhouse for dinner. Pretty damn good food and the prices were right. I assume that's because the building itself was nothing more than a corrugated steel box, so there was little in the way of overhead. We got back to the B&B pretty late and I hopped in the jacuzzi tub for one of my many baths of the weekend. The room had cable, so we had fun watching "Most Haunted" on the Travel Channel.
Next day we had a mammoth breakfast buffet laid out for us, since we were the only guests. The quiche was the best I've ever had; the coffee, alas, was little more than coffee-flavored water. We spent the rest of the morning doing our own things (Bizarro writing, of course, me reading and studying Korean). Our friends arrived around 1:00 and we took off for Seneca Lake wine trail.
We had lunch at Wagner Vineyard's restaurant (very fine) and started our tasting in the winery. All in all, we hit four vineyards on Seneca Lake and two on Cayuga Lake, including our favorite, Lucas Wine. The whole day we were trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid "the Hawaiian people" who were on some tropical-themed tour in buses and stretch SUV limos, and who were very obnoxious. Three of us were drinking, one was driving, and it's a damned good thing because the three of us were pretty toasted by the third winery.
We actually stopped at one place we didn't go into - it was Hazlitt, home of "Red Cat" wine which may as well be Kool-Aid. We pulled into the drive and there by the door was a poor schlepp in a fuzzy Red Cat costume - girded with a grass skirt for "the Hawaiians." We were all over ourselves laughing and came away with a picture, which I shall post here soon.
We stopped back at the Roadhouse for dinner, then into T'burg (Trumansburg) for coffee at Gimme! Coffee, a quick stop at the Shur Fine for some toothpaste and to gas up the car, then back to the Glass Magnolia where the four of us sat in the tea room with our coffees, then opened a bottle of wine when coffee was done. There was a lovely gas fireplace there to keep us toasty, and the ubiquitous ambient mood music (instrumental arrangements of Phantom of the Opera love song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, etc.). Our friends left around 8:30 and Don stayed downstairs to write a bit more. I hit the tub and polished off most of the rest of the bottle of wine we had open. I was besotted in the bath, you could say.
We watched a bit of TV and I fell asleep, pretty tipsy in my cups still, around midnight. This morning was another full breakfast, then time to go. Sad!
So I'm home and it's good to be here, esp. now that the snow's all gone and there's a little peek of sun now and again. I have some brutal realities to face, namely the lack of a job for next year and the limbo that currently is my summer. I have asked my colleague from school who is running the docu. program in Korea this summer if he could nudge them to give him an idea of whether he's going to need me (based on enrollment). Another school here might be interested in having me teach ESL this summer, and I could do that and perhaps get to Korea at the end of the summer to teach in an English camp and shoot my own little docu. But I need to know.
I. NEED. TO. KNOW.
For now I'm trying not to feed into the stress and just allow myself the rest of today for relaxing a bit longer. I can see the sunshine and it's working on lifting my spirits a bit. I think I'm still a little "under the weather" from having too many "spirits" yesterday and last night!
It was a lovely if overcast weekend. Friday night we were both exhausted and found out that the Glass Magnolia's (our B&B) dining room isn't open for the season, yet, so we drove to a place down the road called Woodside Roadhouse for dinner. Pretty damn good food and the prices were right. I assume that's because the building itself was nothing more than a corrugated steel box, so there was little in the way of overhead. We got back to the B&B pretty late and I hopped in the jacuzzi tub for one of my many baths of the weekend. The room had cable, so we had fun watching "Most Haunted" on the Travel Channel.
Next day we had a mammoth breakfast buffet laid out for us, since we were the only guests. The quiche was the best I've ever had; the coffee, alas, was little more than coffee-flavored water. We spent the rest of the morning doing our own things (Bizarro writing, of course, me reading and studying Korean). Our friends arrived around 1:00 and we took off for Seneca Lake wine trail.
We had lunch at Wagner Vineyard's restaurant (very fine) and started our tasting in the winery. All in all, we hit four vineyards on Seneca Lake and two on Cayuga Lake, including our favorite, Lucas Wine. The whole day we were trying, unsuccessfully, to avoid "the Hawaiian people" who were on some tropical-themed tour in buses and stretch SUV limos, and who were very obnoxious. Three of us were drinking, one was driving, and it's a damned good thing because the three of us were pretty toasted by the third winery.
We actually stopped at one place we didn't go into - it was Hazlitt, home of "Red Cat" wine which may as well be Kool-Aid. We pulled into the drive and there by the door was a poor schlepp in a fuzzy Red Cat costume - girded with a grass skirt for "the Hawaiians." We were all over ourselves laughing and came away with a picture, which I shall post here soon.
We stopped back at the Roadhouse for dinner, then into T'burg (Trumansburg) for coffee at Gimme! Coffee, a quick stop at the Shur Fine for some toothpaste and to gas up the car, then back to the Glass Magnolia where the four of us sat in the tea room with our coffees, then opened a bottle of wine when coffee was done. There was a lovely gas fireplace there to keep us toasty, and the ubiquitous ambient mood music (instrumental arrangements of Phantom of the Opera love song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, etc.). Our friends left around 8:30 and Don stayed downstairs to write a bit more. I hit the tub and polished off most of the rest of the bottle of wine we had open. I was besotted in the bath, you could say.
We watched a bit of TV and I fell asleep, pretty tipsy in my cups still, around midnight. This morning was another full breakfast, then time to go. Sad!
So I'm home and it's good to be here, esp. now that the snow's all gone and there's a little peek of sun now and again. I have some brutal realities to face, namely the lack of a job for next year and the limbo that currently is my summer. I have asked my colleague from school who is running the docu. program in Korea this summer if he could nudge them to give him an idea of whether he's going to need me (based on enrollment). Another school here might be interested in having me teach ESL this summer, and I could do that and perhaps get to Korea at the end of the summer to teach in an English camp and shoot my own little docu. But I need to know.
I. NEED. TO. KNOW.
For now I'm trying not to feed into the stress and just allow myself the rest of today for relaxing a bit longer. I can see the sunshine and it's working on lifting my spirits a bit. I think I'm still a little "under the weather" from having too many "spirits" yesterday and last night!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Spring has Sprung
Welcome to the 2nd day of spring. It is appropriately spring-like here. There is the constant sound of running water due to the veritable river that runs through it - "it" being the middle of this apartment complex - thanks to the nimrods who screwed up the drainage system here about 10 years ago. It sounds like a babbling brook is right outside the patio. Apparently these roofs used to be flat, until some idgit property manager decided to put up pitched roofs but neglected to install gutters and proper drainage.
So, spring is here and I'm waiting for the last of the snow to melt on my patio so I can clean it up and get ready for grillin' season. Bizarro will be able to grill all the red meat his heart desires outside (I don't allow it inside because the entire apartment smells like dead cow, and it literally makes me nauseated. Must've been a Hindu in a past life.).
Tomorrow is our second wedding anniversary. As I've already repeatedly noted, I cannot wait to hit the jacuzzi in our B&B tomorrow evening.
But before tomorrow I have things to accomplish, which I haven't felt like doing due to a nasty stomach bug. I think I'm over the worst of it, and today I'm taking it easy with mint tea and gentle foods.
I received some awful news from JEB the other night - a death in the family. I wired flowers to her mom (it was her husband who passed away unexpectedly) and have had them in my prayers constantly. This morning was the funeral - I wish I could've been there, but Boston is a bit of a leap and I had to teach this week. I wish I could be there to support JEB, who is notoriously strong for her entire family. From afar, I send her cyber hugs and lots of Green Tara mantras.
So, spring is here and I'm waiting for the last of the snow to melt on my patio so I can clean it up and get ready for grillin' season. Bizarro will be able to grill all the red meat his heart desires outside (I don't allow it inside because the entire apartment smells like dead cow, and it literally makes me nauseated. Must've been a Hindu in a past life.).
Tomorrow is our second wedding anniversary. As I've already repeatedly noted, I cannot wait to hit the jacuzzi in our B&B tomorrow evening.
But before tomorrow I have things to accomplish, which I haven't felt like doing due to a nasty stomach bug. I think I'm over the worst of it, and today I'm taking it easy with mint tea and gentle foods.
I received some awful news from JEB the other night - a death in the family. I wired flowers to her mom (it was her husband who passed away unexpectedly) and have had them in my prayers constantly. This morning was the funeral - I wish I could've been there, but Boston is a bit of a leap and I had to teach this week. I wish I could be there to support JEB, who is notoriously strong for her entire family. From afar, I send her cyber hugs and lots of Green Tara mantras.
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