Half a Saturday

A productive morning so far, and there is still half a day to go. I've done one load of laundry so far which was initiated by my desire to change the sheets on my bed. I also decided it was time to turn the mattress around, so I did that as well (damn it's heavy). I went through the pile of clothes in the corner to give to charity and managed to bag up four bags worth. I took two of the bags with me when I went out and put them in the charity clothes box by the recycling bins. I did all of this before my weekly sojourn to Broadway Market where I scoped out food for the party next Saturday. I had pie and mash for breakfast/lunch which I'd not had for a couple of weeks. There was a new stall of exotic mushrooms which looked promising for future cooking experiments. I also bumped into S and C and a friend of theirs on my way out of the market so had a quick chat.

I came home with challah and lots of berries. I have a plan to make challah french toast which is my favorite kind. And I'm debating making a berry tart this week. I also bought diced lamb and potatoes and carrots and I think I'll make a stew. Yummy things to look forward to.

So now I'm home for a few hours before S comes over and we head over to meet B to see the movie.

Yesterday I got a few texts from Mr.Aloof. Seems he's been in Italy with his kids. He's still busy, but it was nice to hear from him.

I'm looking forward to my party. I wasn't sure I was, but as it gets closer, I find I'm getting excited. When I had the party last year, I didn't really have any furniture as I had just moved into my flat. Now my little flat is packed full of stuff, at least I have a bunch of chairs now! I was thinking it will be funny to see who ends up finding the shelf and a half of erotica I have on the bookshelf. I've never believed in hiding the porn. I put it up on the top shelf, so that if a child were to come over, it wouldn't be accessible, but I don't feel the need to hide it under a bed or up in my bedroom. Anyway, there are too many books. I have always kept my erotica on the shelf, and on the shelf it will remain.

Once I caught someone at a party of mine standing in front of the shelf staring at it for a good ten minutes. Not taking anything down, but not looking at the spines of any of the other books either. I didn't call them out on it, but I did think it was funny. I'm sure it would have been much funnier had they opened any of them up and gleaned the topic of most of the stories.