Exceedingly Mundane

Friday night is traditionally “date night” in our house, or at least, we’ve been observing it fairly regularly in recent weeks. Last night was no exception 🙂 I went to Walmart for most of Friday afternoon, to grocery shop and get a bunch of household items. After I got back, I started making cookies. We have a family lunch today at Tim’s aunt’s house (this is his dad’s side of the family, which is different from the one we just went to at July 4th, which was his mom’s side of the family – confused yet?!), and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies to bring.

Tim very kindly agreed to help with the clean-up after I had made the cookies:

That’s his idea of helping – licking the beaters. He didn’t actually wash dishes or even put anything in the sink for me. He also “helped out” by testing the cookies when they came out of the oven! Such a great guy, hehehe. Here’s the platter of cookies:

After I made the cookies and cleaned up the kitchen, we got ready and went to eat. We went to Logan’s out on Lakeland and had a really good dinner. Logan’s is one of the chain restaurants we like best – we’ve always had good food and good service there. Last night was no exception. When we got there, there were tons of people waiting, so we put our names on the list and the hostess said it was about a 20-25 minute wait. We grabbed a bucket of peanuts to nibble on, and less than 10 minutes later, we were seated. Tim got a prime rib and I got a combo of grilled salmon with 2 shrimp skewers. Mine was delicious, but I got one bite of Tim’s steak, and of course, it was much better! But, I was trying to eat healthy and my grilled salmon, grilled shrimp, grilled zucchini and red onion were delicious. After dinner, I talked Tim into taking me back to Borders. Since I had gotten my Borders Rewards card last weekend, I have been wanting to go back and buy some books. Tim read football magazines and let me browse to my heart’s content. I had a coupon that Borders had emailed me (smart marketing!) and I ended up buying 4 more books. I will try to load them on my sidebar later this weekend.

We’re headed out for the family lunch in a bit. Tim is going to play golf tomorrow afternoon with a buddy from work, so maybe I’ll have time to blog more then!