A Fitting Week End

This has been a rough week, full of hard work and two days spent with the main client who I do work for at Mind­Comet.

Thurs­day was one of those days that sums up the sort of life I live. I was up and at work early, arriv­ing close to 7:30am. Then I pushed hard with two other peo­ple work­ing over my shoul­der, some­thing which is never com­fort­able and is quite trying.

I then stayed at work an hour late and from there headed directly to film two episodes of Man­a­Na­tion. Lee, Dar­ren and I knocked out two great episodes for this month, and headed home ear­lier than expected.

Once home I grilled up two grilled cheeses and then worked on Trit­ter for another hour and a half. And after mid­night I finally turned in, only to wake up again at 6:30.

Steak and Scotch

So Fri­day night, I did the won­der­ful. When I left the office around 6:30 I headed to Whole Foods and picked up some nec­es­sary ele­ments, New York Strip steaks were on sale so I snagged some real beau­ties, along with some veg­gies and mac and cheese, as well as some soy ice cream sand­wiches K asked for.

Once home I primed the steaks, rub­bing them down with olive oil and sea salt, and let­ting them sit and raise to room tem­per­a­ture. I put on my recorded episode of Lever­age (a great new show on TNT) and poured myself a won­der­ful glass of scotch. Dewars on the rocks, a rare treat I allow myself after tough days or weeks.

I then pro­ceeded to lay out the game plan and attempt to time it all for when K got off work and arrived home. As I tweeted last night, the secret to a good meal is tim­ing. If you get all the pieces to come out together or at least all be hot when they’re done, then I call that a win. I timed it nearly per­fectly, every­thing was ready at the same time, but unfor­tu­nately it took Katie a lit­tle longer than expected to leave work and get home, so I left it all warm­ing in the oven.

Oh but once she arrived home, won­der­ful­ness was had. We cud­dled, caught up on the DVR and then put in ‘Dark Knight’ for our nightcap.

And then of course my body woke me up at 6:30. *sigh*