RTT: Vomitoria, Rainbows and Proof

Random Tuesday time once again!

Last night's Valentine's Day dinner was an epic feast, an event that Henry VIII or perhaps even Bacchus himself would have delighted in, a food orgy rivaling the Ancient Romans. While we did not actually take a break between courses to vomit, we did eat ourselves silly.

(BTW, people often misuse the term vomitorium. While the Ancient Romans were, in fact, known to vomit between courses, they did not use vomitoria (mmm, excellent plural). They did, however, HAVE vomitoria, as anyone who has studied Theater History in college [me] knows, a vomitorium is a kind of hallway that extends off an amphitheatre, through which actors can enter and exit. And while, some actors, suffering from terrible stage fright, may have occasionally, in fact, vomited in said vomitoria, that is not what they were built for. Didn't know you'd be getting a history lesson, did you?)

And because I know that someone will ask, here's the menu-

King Crab, Mango and Avocado Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

Coquilles St. Jacques (prepared in small, individual ramekins)

Surf and Turf Bearnaise (Lobster Tails and Pan-Seared Filet Mignon)

Grandma's Chocolate Cream Pie (Jimmy's FAVORITE)

PLUS - a rather excellent (and expensive - yikes) bottle of champagne.

Toward the end of the meal, I left the room to deal with Jude in the bathtub, and when I came back into the dining room, I caught Jimmy actually licking his plate. He then reached over, picked up the lobster tail shell off MY plate, and licked all the Bearnaise Sauce off of it! After pie, he staggered to the sofa, and collapsed in a gluttonous coma. I managed to get Jude to bed, but then fell asleep in his bed next to the child (I think all the blood had rushed out of my brain and into my digestive tract). After about an hour, I got up, remembered to put the rest of the pie in the fridge, crawled into my pajamas and whacked Jimmy until he got off the sofa and followed me to bed, where we both collapsed, snoring.

In other words, a great time was had by all!

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I kind of, sort of, almost, hate saying this to all you snowbound folks, but our weather has been excellent lately. Clear, cool, but not too cool. The kind of day that helps you to remember why people chose to live here in the first place. Last week, however, we did have a little rain. Nothing too torrential, no mudslides or flooding. But we did get something that is EXTREMELY rare for these parts - a rainbow. A beautiful, glorious rainbow...

 
These pictures truly do not do it justice. Jude and I walked out the front doors of the YMCA and Jude looked up and gasped. It was then that I realized that this was only the second time in his life that my child had seen a rainbow! Poor little unprivileged Californian! It was amazing, a huge crowd had gathered outside, everyone had out their iPhones, trying to document the phenomenon.

It really was spectacular. As we drove home, people had actually gathered on the sidewalk, and were looking up at the sky. It was as if the Visitors had descended and were hovering in the sky above the city. Crazy.

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So, you remember my last post about Jimmy and my weird little game with the beef broth? I posted it on Friday. And what did I find in my panty drawer on Saturday?

I swear to God. He had no idea I had just told y'all the story about it.

Please do not judge the hideous tangle of brightly-colored thong panties and brassieres that is my underwear drawer.

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I know that I keep talking about my church choir, and how fab we are, and I want to share our music with y'all. Here we are rehearsing a piece called the "Cantique de Jean Racine" by Faure. It is truly one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of choral music ever written. I'm afraid the sound quality is pretty mediocre, as a friend taped it with her camera, but you can get an idea of what we're about. Please sit back, close your eyes and listen all the way through, as the best part is the end.

Cantique de Jean Racine

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Public Service Announcement;

Read this from Amy at Fraught about the whole stupid, confusing Privacy Setting problems with Facebook. I read it this morning and checked up on my settings. Turns out that, while I swear I'd set all my settings the way I wanted them, they suddenly had reverted to Facebooks chosen "default" settings, which now allowed all "Friends of Friends" to see all sorts of things I'd rather them not see, including my link to this blog.

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I have been whining about low numbers in my recently added little Google Friend Connect thingy over on the right (well, not THAT recently added, but pretty recently added). It has suddenly occurred to me that, while I have been inviting, nay, begging people to join my little thingy, I had not, in fact, ever joined anybody ELSE'S Google Friend Connect thingy!  Which is certainly tacky, and possibly karmically damning. So I have rectified this, and gone through and joined the thingies of everybody I regularly read. So there.
 

Okay, run on over to see Keely at The UnMom and check out more Random Thinkers.

 

Comments

[elizabeth]

Great post and the music was beautiful! And the privacy thing with Facebook is freaking me out.

[Michele Renee]

Divine meal. Divine music.
I told my Hubs that we'd have mimosas for Sunday brunch as we have lots of champagne left from new year's. Completely forgot to have this. Sort of like I forgot to get out the party favors I bought for New Year's Eve.
I was impressed with your unmentionables drawer. Mine is filled with all cotton bright colored Hanes, you know the packages of 3's.

[Michele]

You know I always love a good history lesson.

[Jenni]

wow, that sounds delish!

and, I love your son's name. happy tuesday!`

[Patty]

YOu are so funny. And can you please share recipes? That menu sounds fabulous, one that my husband would love as well. We tend to measure how well our dates go by how much good food was eaten, so that V-Day dinner you made would have been a hit!

And your choir is amazing!

[Christopher (AKA: CaJoh)]

Sounds like an excellent meal was had by all. I love the fact the plates were licked. Reminds me of when my wife and I did the same at a restaurant that had such a great meal that we broke out into song "What a Wonderful Meal".

I like you have a Friend Connect widget thingy. I only thought those things were reserved for blogger. I'm signing up.

Thanks for sharing,

[Gina]

Mmmmm.......your Valentine meal sounds delicious! I'm sorry I missed it!

Loved the history lesson. I did not know that!

Happy Tuesday!

[Harriet]

That rainbow is amazing!

Have a great RT.
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[The Blogging Mum]

I love the rainbows! It's hilarious that you would find a can of beef broth in your underwear drawer.

[Kristie]

We are very fortunate that we have lots of rainbows here in the mid-west but I do envy your warm weather right now! I have been trying to subscribe to your blog but when I click 'subscribe' I get a bunch of strange letters and numbers...Love your blog!

[Danabug]

Your Valentine's celebration sounds fabulous - and the part where you whack Jimmy to get him off the couch sounds VERY familiar to me (although I usually poke - whacking might be more effective).

Your choir is the real deal - very nice!

[Mama Badger]

The fact that your kid has only seen a rainbow twice makes me forgive your weather. Mostly.

You know it was a good meal when they lick the plates, and the shells!

[debbie]

LOVED the description of your meal and evening! Why is it that a good evening for most of us now consists of food and sleep? I remember the good old days...

[Maureen@IslandRoar]

Aw, you got the beef broth! How romantic.
Great shots of the rainbow. I'm glad someone has some good weather.

[rxBambi]

I find it funny (yet sad) that you don't get rainbows in california. I mean, I guess it makes sense, it's just that I've seen them my whole life. I've looked for the pot-o-gold.. none found.

Umm, haven't you been to victoria's secret lately? that's how my bras are in their drawers. Seriously ;)
Go fix them. Bras need their own drawers. Then just toss the panties in.

your valentines dinner sounds fabulous! I won't even count your calories for you. It's okay tho, we had fried cheesecake included in ours. That's about 10 gazillion cals on it's own.

[Jessica]

A few weeks ago, I saw a similar huge rainbow and filmed it. It is so amazing. I literally had never seen anything like it.

Oh and is it wrong to lick the plate? I only ask because...I just thinik it's the "green" thing to do. you know saving water rinsing

[Sara]

Seriously, you had all those fantastic things in one meal? My hats off to you! And I'm jealous. Because we had cafeteria style Chinese (the owners are super sweet) for our Valentine meal. Your husband's plate licking is like my husband's steak bone chawing.

Looks like my underpants drawer. Minus the beef broth of course.

Great rainbow! You know what ticks me off? When I'm oohing and ahhing over rainbows and then I look around at other folks in public who are totally missing it! How can you miss it?! Double rainbows to boot. Buncha dummies.

Beautiful music.

[Regina]

The music player does work here! :)

Hope you're feeling better. We missed you at rehearsal.