Saturday April 22
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Pretty nice weather. I love being able to wear lighter clothing outside.
I didn't sleep well, but I managed to get up and do what had to be done so we could make it to the city on time for an art director tour of the same exhibit we've seen earlier.
It was good. I'm not sure we learned a LOT, but we did learn something about one or two of the less well-known artists.
Afterwards, we looked at some of the other exhibits that we haven't had time for the last couple of times (this exhibit of the Sobey's family collection is very intense).
I really appreciate that my husband and I can do things like this together and really build on it. We've kind of always gone to art galleries and talked a lot about art, and over the years it becomes a thing we remember and share and look forward to doing together.
I insisted on going to a nice locally owned outdoor gear shop that has PROPER outdoor clothing, because these places seem to be the last place in the world where you can get a well made wool sweater.
I noticed that the sweater we bought for my husband for Christmas was pilling horribly, in spite of it supposedly being merino wool. It had not been an especially expensive sweater, but STILL. He's only had it a few months (though he's worn it just about every day).
He had a sweater that he's had for almost 15 years that he's worn until it's falling apart, but it isn't pilling.
Anyhow, we found two very nice sweaters, one on sale one not on sale. They were both pretty pricey, but I told my husband that I would rather that he look nice and have handsome sweaters that last than to keep buying crap and making him wear them when they looked shabby.
Then we hit a thrift store and I found a few shirts and a pair of jeans.
Afterwards we tracked down a person selling the full box set of "Six Feet Under", an older series that I could never find the last couple of seasons anywhere. Dirt cheap.
It was significantly out of our way, but it ended up being kind of a nice drive. It was in a town at the edge of the city, and it was the site for a refinery that my husband worked on a couple of years ago. This site was the winter that my husband was able to work from home and drive there.
I think it was kind of fun that to go get the DVDs, we drove on the road he ended up driving every day back and forth to this job site, and I think he liked seeing all the farms and such he used to drive by. I would otherwise have little cause to go to this area.
There's something kind of fun about just driving around and looking at things with no real pressure. You end up commenting on the houses and yards and other land marks.
We came home and took Roxy for a couple of spins around the horse pasture.
Then we picked up the rotten pallet that had been underneath the rails we sold, and put it in the truck to go to the dump at some point.
We took most of the old food out of the old freezer we replaced. This is stuff that had become embedded in ice and I couldn't get out without letting it thaw, so it was no good to eat anymore. We emptied all the bags of old beans and fruit and such into a pail and buried it into the compost heap.
Then we watched "The Lady in the Van" which was somewhat based on real events. It was good, and interesting, but also pretty sad.
I learned that Kit Kat Bars come in over 200 flavors. Soy Sauce, Matcha, Orange, Blueberry, Lemon Vinegar, Yuzu, Blood Orange, Salt, Banana, Fruit Parfait, Melon, Muscat, Maple Syrup, Red Bean Soup, Cherry Blossom... just to name a few.
I really did not know this, in spite of Kit Kats being a Canadian chocolate bar. I've never even seen these variations, as they are mostly available in Japan. I think I've seen a white chocolate version, and that's it.
https://thisis-japan.com/kitkat-flavors/
Scrolling down into the comments in Reddit about this, and part of the reason that Kit Kat has done so well in Japan is because the name is very close to "Kitto Katsu", roughly translating as good luck, or you will surely win. Kit Kats are often given as gifts to students, or gifts in general because of this lucky similarity.
Pretty nice weather. I love being able to wear lighter clothing outside.
I didn't sleep well, but I managed to get up and do what had to be done so we could make it to the city on time for an art director tour of the same exhibit we've seen earlier.
It was good. I'm not sure we learned a LOT, but we did learn something about one or two of the less well-known artists.
Afterwards, we looked at some of the other exhibits that we haven't had time for the last couple of times (this exhibit of the Sobey's family collection is very intense).
I really appreciate that my husband and I can do things like this together and really build on it. We've kind of always gone to art galleries and talked a lot about art, and over the years it becomes a thing we remember and share and look forward to doing together.
I insisted on going to a nice locally owned outdoor gear shop that has PROPER outdoor clothing, because these places seem to be the last place in the world where you can get a well made wool sweater.
I noticed that the sweater we bought for my husband for Christmas was pilling horribly, in spite of it supposedly being merino wool. It had not been an especially expensive sweater, but STILL. He's only had it a few months (though he's worn it just about every day).
He had a sweater that he's had for almost 15 years that he's worn until it's falling apart, but it isn't pilling.
Anyhow, we found two very nice sweaters, one on sale one not on sale. They were both pretty pricey, but I told my husband that I would rather that he look nice and have handsome sweaters that last than to keep buying crap and making him wear them when they looked shabby.
Then we hit a thrift store and I found a few shirts and a pair of jeans.
Afterwards we tracked down a person selling the full box set of "Six Feet Under", an older series that I could never find the last couple of seasons anywhere. Dirt cheap.
It was significantly out of our way, but it ended up being kind of a nice drive. It was in a town at the edge of the city, and it was the site for a refinery that my husband worked on a couple of years ago. This site was the winter that my husband was able to work from home and drive there.
I think it was kind of fun that to go get the DVDs, we drove on the road he ended up driving every day back and forth to this job site, and I think he liked seeing all the farms and such he used to drive by. I would otherwise have little cause to go to this area.
There's something kind of fun about just driving around and looking at things with no real pressure. You end up commenting on the houses and yards and other land marks.
We came home and took Roxy for a couple of spins around the horse pasture.
Then we picked up the rotten pallet that had been underneath the rails we sold, and put it in the truck to go to the dump at some point.
We took most of the old food out of the old freezer we replaced. This is stuff that had become embedded in ice and I couldn't get out without letting it thaw, so it was no good to eat anymore. We emptied all the bags of old beans and fruit and such into a pail and buried it into the compost heap.
Then we watched "The Lady in the Van" which was somewhat based on real events. It was good, and interesting, but also pretty sad.
I learned that Kit Kat Bars come in over 200 flavors. Soy Sauce, Matcha, Orange, Blueberry, Lemon Vinegar, Yuzu, Blood Orange, Salt, Banana, Fruit Parfait, Melon, Muscat, Maple Syrup, Red Bean Soup, Cherry Blossom... just to name a few.
I really did not know this, in spite of Kit Kats being a Canadian chocolate bar. I've never even seen these variations, as they are mostly available in Japan. I think I've seen a white chocolate version, and that's it.
https://thisis-japan.com/kitkat-flavors/
Scrolling down into the comments in Reddit about this, and part of the reason that Kit Kat has done so well in Japan is because the name is very close to "Kitto Katsu", roughly translating as good luck, or you will surely win. Kit Kats are often given as gifts to students, or gifts in general because of this lucky similarity.
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Date: 2023-04-23 08:57 pm (UTC)I remember reviewing the cherry blossom KitKat: "If Barbie or Hello Kitty had a flavour, this would be it."
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Date: 2023-04-24 07:46 am (UTC)