A night of firsts

Tonight I decided to be a bit daring. My friend Emily and I went to dinner at Michael Dean's, a restaurant that has a Monday special. The special is dinner for 2 for 40 dollars. Not to bad, you get a bottle of wine, a soup or salad, entree, and a appetizer or dessert. Well for little ol' picky Jerilyn (who is not so picky anymore and get that out of your memory!) everything I tried was new! Well except the wine, we had white Zinfandel. I tried calamari, which I didn't know what it was for sure, but when it arrived and I could see tentacles it was a bit scary! I still tried it though! I couldn't eat the ones that looked almost whole, but ate small pieces, and even eventually ventured to try the tentacles it ended up OK, but not necessarily my favorite food. One down! Then I had clam chowder, seeing as I know I don't like salad, I tried the soup. It was OK, not my favorite again, but heck I ate about half of it and i tried it! Right on! On to new thing #3 a pasta in pesto cream sauce. I've never had this kind of sauce before. By taking the mushrooms and spinach out of the pasta it was quite enjoyable. Then for dessert we had a chocolate chambord truffle. Pretty good, but very very rich especially for someone who doesn't really eat much chocolate! I tried the tomato vinaigrette dip for the bread and the dipping sauce for the calamari as well! A night of firsts indeed!
This weekend was pretty good, I got back into the wonderful Jerilyn habit of staying up really late and sleeping in! I went to bed at 4am on Saturday night and 3am last night. Tonight looks like it might be close to 2. This however does not help me get up at a decent time to get in to work. I have plenty to do tomorrow, including finishing up my writing, and create figures and citations. Who knows when I'll actually head home tomorrow night! I have almost 7 pages written for my methods section of my thesis, which I actually am quite proud about! I expect it to be between 10-15 pages once it is complete, but I have pictures and some more stuff to write, so I think I can hit at least 10, hopefully by Wednesday!
Should I be sitting on here in my freezing cold apartment, it's 60.1 degrees right now, typing on the computer at 1:30am??? No I should be asleep, or at the very least watching TV! Maybe I should actually turn the heat on, it's so cold that I'm sitting here in my sweatshirt with the hood up and my fingers are ice cold. I'm insane....yes! but I'm saving a bunch of money on my car insurance...HA, no I'm trying to save the little bit of money I can on electric! I'm off to warm up under my oodles of sheets and comforters!

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