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last friday, j & i went out to dinner at bleu, the restaurant at the western culinary institute, to celebrate our anniversary. you get a 5 course meal for just $25 per person. the only drawback is that the students are the wait staff, & the chefs, and some aspects of the dining experience might be a little lacking in polish. overall, the food was good, and of course we enjoyed the evening. however, my potatoes were barely cooked, and the waitstaff rushed us through every course, asking to remove our plates while one of us was still eating. our reservation was at 6:30, and we were out of there within an hour! we did have comment cards, so we each detailed our observations, and hopefully the students will learn...
anyhoo, being finished so early, i decided we should get an early start on the weekend's chores. we had gotten a bottle of wine at dinner, and as i can (or choose to) drink just 6 oz, j had polished off the rest, so i easily convinced him in his nicely buzzed state to go to home depot to purchase materials for the new kitchen shelves. we needed to move a filing cabinet into the kitchen, which meant that our old shelving unit had to go in the garage, and we had no place for all my cookbooks (at least with easy access), so we decided to install a couple shelves. there's no place like home depot on a friday night - life has gotten SO exciting!