This is mostly pictures. Today Megan and I baked a cake and made little cupcakes for Barry to take with him since his birthday is Monday and he leaves for San Diego tomorrow. I spent the day knitting, cooking, and watching horror movies. We saw The Hills Have Eyes, Demon Slayer, House of the Dead, and I finally finished Firewall. All I can say to Firewall is... DID HE KEEP HIS DAMN JOB?! gaaaaah. I made mushroom soup from the Les Halles book (but off the internet from epicurious.com) and I must say it was DAMN TASTY, omg. Here's the thing though. Cuz we had the ac going and my stove is unreliable at best... an hour on simmer... rendered the liquid enough for one bowl of soup. Which means it reaaaaaaaaaly REALLY reduced! It was POTENT! I added about four cups of water and brought it back to heat and it was still quite strong, but delicious. And I have never had non-cream of mushroom soup. I have had homemade or restaurant cream of mushroom soup, but never mushroom soup sans cream. It was really, really fab. So now I want to buy as many soup cook books as possible... and eat soup.
Earlier this year I was saying, "wouldn't it be fab if there was a place that had just soup on the menu and it wasn't freaking chicken noodle, brocolli, or freaking clam chowder all the time?" Apparently some clever people in New York (it's always New York) already thought of that and started a chain called Daily Soup, and it was sooo popular that they sold it this year. DAMNIT. But they published a cookbook, yay! It's on my WISHLIST in case anyone were wondering... lol.

While I was hard at work knitting, hubby was hard at work CRAFTING!

This is an upclose view of the wire hangers he made. 22 of them!! OMG Why?!?!

He doesn't look too very pleased...

OH MY! How many candles is that!?!?!
Happy Birthday early to my hero.