#393 - All By Myself...

Saturday was designed to be a rest day for me.

I only slept in until about nine thirty because Robyn was up early to do a little work. I stayed in bed until she left to meet with some of her girldriends. They had breakfast plans and a walk in the provincial park planned.

An email arrived in my inbox letting me know that my three bottles of pisco sour had arrived and I could pick them up. I headed out immediately to the LCBO. While I was there, I picked up some blackberry wine and a bottle of Henry of Pelham Baco Noir old vines. That particular Baco is one of my favourites, and I had no left in the wine rack.

I also grabbed some premade mojitos, because I love those as much as a pisco sour.

Basically, I had all my drinks covered for a week at the cottage with plenty of extra, just in case.

I headed over the Value Village as I often do, checking for any cool bags. I’ve found three or four nice duffels there and since the kiddo has my brown one, I keep an eye out for a replacement.

Next, I stopped at Fortino’s to stock up on some Muffuletta and tamed jalapenos. And since my mind was on muffuletta, I ordered a porchetta sandwich from the hot deli. I drove home happy with my purchases and set about to eat half of my sandwich. It tasted amazing and there were some crunchy bit from the seared skin. Unfortunately, one of my newer fillings crumbled while I was eating it and that put a damper on things. The last thing I needed was to make a stop at the dentist right before my vacation.

There was no pain. In fact, I didn’t even realize it had happened at first. After a look in the mirror and a quick brush of the teeth, I determined the repair could wait. I didn’t see any exposed tooth, only more filling. And I didn’t detect that tell tale odor raw dentin gives off.

I went back inside and watched a bunch of YouTube, with the idea that I was just going to get well rested.

Robyn headed out to drop of the kiddo and then went to her second job. After that, she went over to our friends to grab some Christmas decorations they don’t want anymore and donated to the new cottage.

I didn’t think I was going to be all alone all day long, but that’s mostly how it ended up. It kind of felt like I was waiting for my wife to arrive home all day long,

With the house so quiet, I was able to hear that the fix on the leaky toilet downstairs was working. The sound of wasted water drops had vanished. And that’s great, because it will save us some money. I had an extra toilet flange/flap too, so it didn’t cost me anytime or money going to the hardware store.

Robyn eventually returned home, and i let her have the second half of my porchetta sandwich, which she devoured.

We headed upstairs and watched Bill Maher, who had former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as the first guest. She was surprisingly normal for once and dropped the fact that she would be starting as a Fox News host in the coming weeks. I remember inwardly groaning when I heard that.

Next, we watched The Daily Show which was fine. I am starting to lose interest in that show.

Robyn was curled up beside me with her head on my chest. I sensed she was sleeping more that watching at that point, so I switched over to Netflix and put on the first episode of the second season of Lupin. It’s a French show about a master thief that has a lot of charm.

There was a bit of unbelievable stuff in this one, but it was clear they got a bigger budget for this season. The second episode had a lot of scenes up on the Eiffel Tower and I am sure I cost a small fortune to film there. It’s also the setting where the unbelievable happened and drew me out of the story. A character climbs to the top and escapes by leaping off the tower and gliding with a cape a la Batman. That part was pretty cheesy.

I listened to about half an hour of Dune Messiah before calling it quits. I wanted to listen a bit more, but I kept dozing off and missing parts.

That’s all for today.

Until tomorrow.