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10/20/2002 Entry: "Everyday Weekend"

Another weekend come and gone, but aah, the pleasures of unemployment. No monday morning blues. No sleepy-eyed Karen lining up with the 9am Starbucks crowd. Today I am thankful, but sometimes, I really miss working. I miss the people I work with and the satisfaction I get from completing a project....but I especially miss my morning bagel at People's cafe and the trip to Starbucks for my 'Tall mild'. :)

I guess I miss the routine. My old routine. I'm a routine girl. But I've established a new one now, and I enjoy it as well. Exercise in the morning, lunch with someone (I try to grab whoever's available, usually my best friend or my sis-in-law), work at home for a bit, try to grab someone for coffee or merienda (snack), have dinner, then work again till bedtime. On the weekends, I usually cook dinner for my family -- tonight I made Vietnamese Beef Tenderloin (a big hit), Gindara Saikyo (marinated black cod), and chocolate pots de creme (recipe from Zuni Cafe). I feel like cooking again tomorrow. I'm exploring this cookbook that KC lent me -- Tropical Asian Cooking... lots of interesting stuff.

I have another month to enjoy this routine, then I'm off to torture myself in the kitchens of Paris. Whee!