Per-usual, I rolled out of bed 10 minutes before I was meeting two of my friends for breakfast… and by the time I biked there I was more than ready for a cup of coffee. We met at P.J. Pipers, a new place in Cedarburg… and it was really good.
I’m seriously amazed though, how can cooks keep it straight which eggs they are cooking which way? We all ordered our eggs differently- I got mine over-medium, and my friends got theirs’ sunny-side up and over-hard. Half of the time when I try to make eggs in the morning, I forget they are cooking and they wind up a little too hard/brown. Oh well. Someday I need a class in egg-cooking… any experts out there?
Next door to the breakfast place is (or was) a scrapbooking store which is now going out of business… so I stopped in and bought some cardstock and random patterns of paper to make cards with! I then spent the rest of the afternoon with my sister Emily (Sarah was babysitting…) cutting and pasting messages on cards. I do not claim to be an artist– but I do go through spurts of craft-making. Today was “most def” one of dem days.
The cards are what Emily and I like to call “ugly-cute” — i.e. we tried, but it’s hard to make actually good cards out of paper! (Some of my friends call that my lack of artistic ability… but I like to call it being creative. Or maybe seeing things from a different angle…)
I also made a Spongebob card for my friend who likes Spongebob- I thought this one was pretty cute!
After card-making, I continued my day of being social by accompanying my mom to the grocery store (why is it always so cold in there??). This errand was then followed by dinner!
Weird story though– it’s my mom’s birthday on Sunday so she got this coupon in the mail today for this restaurant called Jerry’s Old Town Inn… which she looked at, confused, and then tossed into the garbage. Then we were driving around looking for a place to eat when she found this place that sounded interesting. We drove into the parking lot, or should I say “pork-ing lot…”
Hahaha. I got a kick out of that one… But back to the story. We thought the place looked cute, so we walked in… sat down… ordered some wine… and then we took a closer look at the logo on the menu. It turns out that that was the place she had received the coupon for this morning! I am not sure what the chances of that would be… but we thought it was pretty crazy/random/ironic.
We ordered ribs– which were delicious. I never used to like ribs, but I have definitely joined the fan club. There was also a lot of pig memorabilia located all around the restaurant (see the pig-chef-man above for an example). Definitely worth a drive out to Germantown though if you are ever in the area.
Overall- a good day. I have to get my teeth cleaned tomorrow morning so that is all for tonight. G’night!
katie christon 