yesterday the SAG guy and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary. We went out to dinner in a tiny little hole in the wall place in a strip mall that someone at work recommended to him. It turned out to be a lovely French Provencal restaurant run by a charming, friendly, volatile and vocal madame from Paris so I got to practice my baby french and she was just delighted to let me.
We both had a pate started, lamb, champagne, and baba au rhum for desert. My mother used to make a baba au rhum that was to die for and I haven't had a good one since before we went overseas in 1993 so it was such a memory jolt that it brought tears to my eyes.
Today we went car shopping for me. Since we came back from the Netherlands in 2004 I have been driving a 2 door ford escort manual everything. We paid it off in two years and six months later the ac system gave out so I have driven it through a number of hot humid Houston summers without ac.
We have been talking about getting a new (used) car for me for two years, but now that I have the FIL to haul back and forth to the gym and shopping, without ac it has become urgent.
We ended up buying a GM clone of a Toyota matrix. It is a four door hatch back with seats that lie down flat so I can get my bike in. Plus it has automatic door locks and windows, a functioning ac, and a bonus moon roof. I will post a photo at some point.
what can I say? I am a truly blessed woman who happens to be married to her high school sweetheart and her best friend.
