Well, today more then one subject in a single post. No need to make three separate postings 🙂
Yesterday someone claimed on MSN that I mostly likely during this weekend, while Marion is not here, I would live on fast food and microwave stuff. I missed this remark because I had an interesting conversation with someone else. But this person could not have been more wrong…
Yesterday I made a very nice lasagne for myself. As Marion doesn’t like lasagne too much, this was the opportunity to make it. It was a good lasagne with meatloaf (beef), Mushrooms, paprika, zucchini and brie.
Tonight I will make something simple. I will make sateh from tenderloin (“varkenshaas”), own made sateh sauce, yellow rice with garden peas and a fresh salad.
For tomorrow I have chicken fillet. You can do anything with those. But I think I will marinade them and bake them in the oven. Some baked potatoes and salad. Done.
Sure, no very fancy things. And I will not make a nice decorated dish, but eat it while watching tv. But it is far from fast food.
The other thing I wanted to tell about are glasses. People around me (home and work as example) must have noticed that I started to get some problems with reading small stuff. Specially when I am tired and with bad light conditions. Yes, I have reached the age that my eye (luckily) slowly start to function a little less. Normally watching is no problem. But reading books and watching computer monitors started to become harder, specially for longer times. So for a while I have been using these cheap “reading glasses”. They helped, but are no real solution because they are not really made for your eyes.
So some weeks ago I visited an optician. He checked my eyes and “computer/reading” glasses would be made for me. Now this optician has an offer that when you buy glasses, you can get a free set of glasses (of the same price). I did go for a set of sunglasses…. Well, here they are…
But to these glasses are the proof that women cost you money, even when it is not spend on them :). When I did visit the optician, Marion went along with me.
Even for the frame of the computer/reading glasses I had to try out hundreds of models before she was satisfied. But as a good boyfriend I did let this come over me as she will have to watch me with those glasses and I believe they were not very much of influence on the price.
But the sunglasses.. the nice thing is that the sunglasses have exactly the same properties as the set of computer/reading glasses and that makes them even more expensive. So for the frame there is less money available to stay within the range of the price of the other set of glasses. So I selected a simple frame for it. But with that Marion didn’t agree. She “decided” that I needed a good and fitting frame to it. And so I ended up with true Ray-Ban sunglasses… and those were just a little bit more expensive.
(For those who didn’t notice it… I am making fun here. If I really didn’t want that frame, I would have said no and Marion would have accepted that without any discussion. But it is so nice to play the underdog :P)
And well, as last addition to this posting…
This afternoon it was nice weather. So I took my bicycle and made a nice ride. On my way home I passed by castle Assumburg and read on a big billboard that since yesterday the gardens of the castle were open to visit. That was an opportunity I could not let pass by and it was well worth it. Here some of the pictures I made during my visit there…
Liked this entry 🙂 espacialy the part of the glasses… I know exactly where you have bought the glasses 😛
well almost everyone in our family has glasses exept for Wilhelmina, Twan, Gino and Danny…I believe…. The rest (including me) has (reading)glasses…… So WELCOME TO THE CLUB! LOL
There is one thing I am absolutely not worried about you. And that you and food. The things you make are mostly very tasty and healthy as well.
You right concerning the sunglasses. I would have put pressure on you to buy that frame, but I am glad you did. It is better quality and looks much better.