Picture Sunday

Sunday. What more can you say, really?

And why is it weekends go so fast and the workweek goes so slowly?

Anyway, spent my first Friday chilling in my pajamas since about six weeks ago, that was fun, movie of the night was "Picnic At Hanging Rock," which is really hard to type. Go ahead, type "Picnic" and see if you don't try putting two "k"s in there after the "c"s. I'll wait.

Then it was to Mr M's on Saturday, more movies, dinner out, and some clarinetting. Boy, the moon must have been in a terrible clarinet phase this weekend. Because not only did I suck, which I'm wont to do on occasion, but Mr M didn't play well, either.

Then today I tried again getting used to something new, which is being kicked out of Mr M's house by noon. He's giving lessons. Not at kicking people out, though he could, he's very good at it, but he gives clarinet lessons to the kiddies in B'burg. So I decided to do a little coat shopping. I desperately need a coat for the coming winter, I can't wear a single coat I own anymore. I found two that were exactly what I was looking for, but alas, I must be an incredible cheap-ass, because I don't want to pay $160 or $180 for a jacket. I mean, I'll only get to wear it for 3 months or so.

And so, while I mulled over this fact about myself, which was by no means a newfound fact, as I've realized that the older I'm getting the cheaper I'm getting, I headed from the outskirts back into the town of B'burg. And I went to MishMish.

MishMish is a great art store, and I'd been thinking about going there since Friday. Friday was when I made my confession about, after all these years, still enjoying the activity of coloring in a coloring book. So I figured, hey, they probably have some cool coloring books. And they did. And this brings me to tonight's Picture Sunday.

Picture Sunday - The Coloring Edition. (I was going to call it the Back To Childhood Edition, but I'm of a mind that coloring isn't necessarily a child-exclusive activity.)

First off, an easy one. This comes from something out of my collection - my Sherman and Peabody collection. It's an old coloring book where The Boys decide to go visit Atlas. Sherman seems to be having a bad day in this picture. Why? Well, because he feels like the whole world's on his shoulder, of course.



Isn't that a wonderful rug they have? They bought it at Wimbledon, apparently.

The next one's from one of the books I bought today. And it answers the question on everyone's lips, "Just what is a ranking government official from the Meiji period in Japan wearing these days?"



Well, to put your mind at ease, he's wearing that. I like it - a government official having to go around with a bow and arrow. I also forgot to color in the handle of his sword, which I'm supposing that's what it is, as I don't think a government official from the Meiji period in Japan would have a tail.

Next is from the Mosaics coloring book I also bought today. It was fun.



And there you have it. I said Friday I liked coloring until the cows came home, and today, I did it. I'm assuming. I guess the cows are home at this hour.

And in almost keeping with a theme here, wonder how our government official from the Meiji period in Japan would like this week's recipe du jour? For it is Japanese Spiced Barbecue.



Well, I see nothing about this that looks either 1) Japanese, 2) Spicy, or 3) Barbecued. Looks like roasted chickies to me. And to this point, I still don't know what's behind it on the nice orange plate there. When I first pulled out the card, I thought it was some fried eggs, but it became apparent soon enough it wasn't. So let's look. Ahhh. Pineapple Spears and Kumquats. That's appropriate, since wasn't pineapple on last week's card about fruits in season?

Tonight's recipe is the first in our very last set of cards. This would be Series 5 for those of you keeping score at home. Hope there are better ones down the road.

Happy week.

Betland's Olympic Update:
* An official Happy Birthday to Mr M. His was today.
* Just for the record, I didn't color in my collectible Sherman and Peabody book. I copied a page to print out. That's why everything looks a little gray. And isn't it nice to see a coloring book where someone's fixing his pipe?