Bibliomama

Eve has been scouring Facebook Marketplace for stuff for her new apartment. Oh shit, I haven't blogged about the new apartment. Okay, SO, we had looked at two apartments in two days while we were down for grad. They were okay-ish, but not great, and a little too far from the bus route to compensate for other cons. We had had trouble booking a lot of appointments for the weekend because a lot of places don't show apartments on the week-ends, which seems weird to me because when do people who work full time find a place, but anyway. There was one place that looked pretty good, and I managed to make an appointment to see it Tuesday morning just before we headed home. It was quite nice. It had a washer and dryer in-unit, which the others didn't (one had them on another floor, one had them in the basement (gross) and you had to pay for them. It had air conditioning, which the others didn't - both of these things weighed in, because this one was more expensive but we would ha...

What was wrong with the dessert, Suzanne? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. Well, not really, but I'm happy to talk about it because it was SO WEIRD. It was a brownie that was supposed to come with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce and ice cream and whipped cream - all three of us were going to share it. I didn't used to like brownies that much, but the malt chocolate brownie dessert at Jack Astor's sort of changed my mind a few years ago. So it was a brownie. It pretty much came with a bit of whipped cream and a sliced up strawberry. No problem. It also just tasted... really weird. Kind of like somebody had maybe used the knife they used on the brownie and strawberries to chop up some garlic and mushrooms first? I would have said something, but we were kind of just ready to cut our losses with the restaurant. I will say that it was not outrageously priced. I really liked the salad I got, and the salmon and mashed potatoes were...fine. Matt got a steak that he said was adequate. Eve got...