June 18, 2012

  • Saturday, June 16, 2012

    Thursday I was running very, very late so I just came down Market into work and disliked that route very much.  I headed home in the mid afternoon and then headed down to Union Square to get my hair cut that evening.  I hung out with Miss Smith after and that was really fun.  Friday I worked from home. 

    We had a little heat wave in the Bay Area over the weekend.  It was hot in the city on Saturday and was in the upper 80's in some neighborhoods.  It was in the upper 90's and hotter inland and I was happy I didn't have a ride on the calendar because there was no way I was going to ride in that.  I live in Northern California and am only comfortable in 60-75 temperatures.  Mr. Poe slept way in so I got a bunch of things done around the house in the morning and then we headed down to the Mission.  We dropped a bunch of stuff off at Community Thrift and we actually found parking without having to either drive around forever or pay for it.  It was a little tight so I documented my capital parallel parking.  It was a little tighter than it looks in the pic but also remember that my truck is a standard:

    Then we headed over to El Toro for lunch and it was pretty amazing.  From there we gave up our parking and headed over to Safeway.  Here's Mr. Poe with the mint in the background.  Hello gorgeous:

    We headed home with the groceries and unpacked and then walked down to the Castro for a couple more errands.  We took Ashley Jr. who loved all the excitement but it was a little too hot for him.  Then we headed home and Mr. Poe took a nap and I started cooking.  I made Gratin de Pommes de Terre a la Madame Poe which is potatoes scalloped with onions, garlic and thyme.  I had tried that a couple of weeks ago, but the cooking time in Julia's cookbook is very different from what I'm getting in my oven and it ended up really underdone which gave me the sads.  This time it turned out pretty much perfect and Mr. Poe ate quite a bit of it.  I made some Korean eggplant and tofu for me and it turned out really well.  I cleaned up the kitchen and went to bed.