Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Easter weekend!

Ten days of school left and counting!!

I took a brief reprieve from school and work and all that garbage and went up to Dallas Thursday night of last week. Friday morning I met with a publisher in Dallas, and the meeting went well, but they made me an offer I couldn't afford to take. They wanted me to start off as an unpaid intern for three months, but there is no guarantee that they would hire me afterwards. As a horse owner, I can't take that risk, especially in the higher-cost-of-living city of Dallas.

The trip wasn't a total bust, though, because I got an impromptu weekend with Philip! After my interview with the publisher Friday morning, I met him for lunch at an Italian restaurant by his office called Taverna. It was DELICIOUS. I had paglia e fieno, which was green and white tagliolini with chicken, wild mushrooms, truffle oil, and cream sauce. Oh. My. Agosh.

Speaking of food, for dinner that night after Philip got home from work, I decided I wanted to make something I hadn't made before. So, I made a maple bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin with a rosemary cherry sauce and had asparagus and rolls with it. The sauce for the tenderloin turned out to not look at all like the picture, but it was so good, nobody cared. If I make it again, and I probably will, I would use less chicken broth (I didn't have any chicken stock), because I think it caused the sauce to not look quite so glaze-like. Here's a picture of our dinner:

With an Argentine malbec wine called Alamos
Philip made the asparagus while I made the tenderloin, and he did an awesome job. And of course, Sister Schubert's rolls are always da bomb.

The next day, he and I went to look at some of the houses he's working on, and then afterwards he took me to Sprinkles Cupcakes to see the Cupcake ATM they have. And by "see the Cupcake ATM," I definitely mean "sample." I got a dark chocolate cupcake that was delicious, and I also got a couple of mini "dog cupcakes" for the pups that they scarfed up in no time.

I need this installed in my home.
Saturday afternoon I left Dallas and drove back to CS to take care of ponies since my roommate was out of town. After such a fun weekend, the Corg was pooped.


The next morning I went to my grandparents' house for Easter. My family went with my grandparents to church, and my aunt, uncle, and cousins met up with us later at the house.

Three generations. I'm not trying to strike a seductive pose here; the wind wouldn't leave my hair alone >.>
My grandmother is always awesome at holidays, from the food she makes to the decorations:


Their yard is full of bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes, like the rest of the Brazos Valley right now. I love the colors of spring!

All day long and for the past week I had been receiving text messages from a Christian radio station that were full of Bible verses and related the story of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, and I was reflecting on that as I drove home later that evening when I noticed the sky. I was trying to take a picture while holding my phone out my truck window and driving at the same time, so the lighting is really dark, but I think the sky looks like it's celebrating that Jesus is risen!


Finally, when I got home that night, I noticed that my knock-out rose bush, which I have barely looked at the last few years, was going CRAZY:

Booyah
My old roommate babied and watered it every day; ever since she left, I hardly even remember it's there unless I'm mowing around it. And yet it perseveres!

I'm so excited to be done with school soon. I have four more assignments to complete, and then it will be GRADUATION DAY! I look forward to what the future holds, but I will try to live each day in the present in the meanwhile!

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