Amanda’s mom took me out to dinner tonight for a birthday present (a few months after my actual birthday, but of course she lives on the other side of the country). Since she wanted to take me out for sushi, I had idly suggested we go to Nishino as I did on my actual birthday last year, but I had thought we should go somewhere else because I hardly wanted to stick my mother-in-law with some outrageous sushi bill. However, Amanda went ahead and made reservations for this evening anyway as she had tormented me last month with many trips to El Sombrero and we won’t be eating out much shortly after the progeny arrives.
Amanda and her mom were of average hunger, but I ended up rattling off twice as many things as they they ordered (or more!). I only had five cups of tea to drink all day and no actual food… unwise before eating sushi.
a subset of my dinner:
green tea
a “saketini”
miso soup with tofu
seaweed salad
hamachi shashimi with ginger and jalapeño peppers (yowsa! slurp!)
a large variety of nigiri pieces and rolls
banana tempura
I also ate various bits of everyone else’s food because I can be a bottomless pit sometimes and they were not all that hungry.
It was very tasty. Unlike last time when everything I ate was raw, I had a bit of rice, tempura veggies, and cooked bok choy this time around. I saw someone’s order of raw oysters and almost got them again, but I resisted.
Amanda and I decided to allocate some of my mother’s holiday gift to the cause, so we split the bill; our dinner was courtesy of both mothers/mothers-in-law. Thanks mom! We considered how we should be saving $$$ for the progeny’s education, but then decided that our kid will be brilliant and will be able to go college for free. “Sorry, Progeny, we didn’t save any money for college because we thought you’d be, like, smart and all.”
I noted that we had the same waitperson as before, and she evidently surmised that I did not want to get sloshed in front of the MIL, so she did not ask if I wanted more martinis. As opposed to my actual birthday when I had no restraints and kept ordering them.
I am still a bit hungry, but clearly I should not eat any more. I did not get much sleep last night, maybe three hours, as I was working and quite inspired. I wanted to actually recap the last week, but I am running out of weblogging steam. Might be time for a nap. Piglet is way ahead of me and is already snoozing in front of the fire.