when was the last time i cooked?

you know, i honestly can't remember the last time i cooked a meal at home.....it's a little ridiculous, but also a testament to how much i don't like to cook! i have to say that the past week has been crazy busy. after having skeena for the weekend, my weeknights were jam-packed full of activities.

monday night - physio for my shoulder, cuddling w/the puppies, and then chris and i ate at insadong, a korean bbq restaurant on lougheed/north road. it was late, and we were both tired, so we opted to not bbq, and just had soup instead.

tuesday night - dinner at my parents house as usual.

wednesday night - renee, sophia and i went to see dianne's baby daughter, savvie....isn't she cute? then we headed over to hon's for dinner. strangely enough, when i asked what types of vegetables they had, one of them was spinach..... we chose shanghai bok choy.











thursday night - i headed out to cactus club to meet my former co-workers, bal & sati, for dinner. bal brought along callum, her 3.5 month old son. i first met him when he was only 6 days old, and weighed in at 6 lbs! how times have changed!

friday night - i met up w/my friend selena and we headed to hapa izakaya. since we didn't have a reservation, we waited about 50 minutes before we actually got seated. but the food was so good it was definitely worth the wait. we ordered ebi mayo, beef tataki, lotus root gyoza, karrage jyan, one of the hot stone bowl rice dishes, enoki mushrooms wrapped in bacon, and another dish that i can't remember right now :P we were incredibly full afterwards, but there was still room for starbucks when chris came to meet up w/us!

saturday - no puppy :( i was terribly sad and lonely so i ended up cleaning the house :P i actually had planned on cooking dinner, but chris insisted we go eat w/his dad. it was worth it.....we had crab, squab and fish for dinner. delish!

sunday - again, no puppy, still terribly sad. we ended up at floata for dim sum. that helped cheer me up a bit :-) since we had thanksgiving dinner at my mom's house that night, i decided to make chocolate espresso cookies. unfortunately, i'm somewhat illiterate and didn't read the entire instructions before i got started. it was one of the those doughs you have to refrigerate for an hour before cutting and baking. well, i didn't have time for that, so i quickly changed gears and turned them into chocolate chocolate chip cookies. they were pretty good!

actually, now that i think about it, this week has been all about kids.....dianne's baby, bal's baby, and then last night at dinner, andrea's baby. well brianna's not a baby anymore, she's 3 years old! she's a really cute little girl, who always talks about herself in the 3rd person (her nicknames are b and beena). "beena not sleepy." "beena go pee-pee." "beena under table." "beena go see keah." "sssh, beena go cache." (keah's my 14 year old yellow lab. cache is french for hide. brianna is somewhat biligual.) well, by 10 p.m., chris and i were exhausted from beena.....she is a non-stop bundle of energy! given this alternative, chris will gladly accept a puppy anyday :-)

well, i gotta sign off now....we're off to ihop for breakfast....