Half Baked Weekend Recap

Happy Monday, everyone.

I made my lime bars for our gathering Saturday, and I think I might've baked the shortbread for a normal time instead of slightly underbaking.  When I went to cut it, something looked off, and I cut, I realized all of the lime filling went under the crust and baked upside down. 

I almost tossed it, but I put a plate down and flipped it.  It wasn't too bad and had some of the filling still stuck to the parchment paper.  Old me would've been freaking out, but I think I'm just so over everything right now, I was like "eff it" and put them together and figured it's all going to the same place, so I didn't care.   I talked to my friend going through every life crisis, and it was confirmed, terminal cancer out of the blue of the father figure in her life, so the object is to make him comfortable because he's too old for chemo.  Truly, it's a miracle the man has made it this long given his diet of "sit on your butt and eat vats of candy and chips or pretzels."  He's thin too.  Go figure.  She flew home that night and will be back for her mom's next chemo treatment assuming she'll be able to have it.  Then I had to tell her I was going to be out for the day and entertaining that night and have a safe flight because I was taking on her stuff and I've got enough of my own and needed that day to just not worry about more than what was in front of me.  I did as much prep work as I could before going to a vintage shop to pick up some items I bought online.  There's a talented painter there who is about to take a break (and I think she might not come back) so I wanted to get some of her work.

We went to a few shops in the area, and I picked up a Christmas gift for a friend, so I have two things for her and one thing for my mom, so I feel like I have a little bit of a head start.  I was hangry, so we went to the closest restaurant, which isn't a place we would've chosen typically.  It was decent, but I don't have a desire to go back.  We saw the other side of the freeway was backed up for miles, so we took the back way, and it took us past an area we used to frequent when we were first dating.  It's a lot different but always brings back memories.  We got back home and took about a 30-minute nap before I had to get to boiling corn, get burger trimmings on a platter, get the beans cooking, etc.

Our friends were bringing tres leches cake, which neither of us ever had before, chips and mac salad.  When they got here, I put on the burgers and brats, and we dug in.  It was a nice, catch-up session.  We both agreed afterward we're not fans of the cake.  I ate half of my slice because I didn't want to be rude, but I didn't think it had much flavor.  They were here until around midnight, and when they left, we didn't feel like going up to bed but were both freezing, so we cuddled up under blankets and faded in and out of consciousness until 2am. 

Sunday we got up, and the Mr was kind enough to get the patio all covered back up.  We had several good chats throughout the day an hour at a time...you know, solving the world's problems and all.  I reheated leftovers and really shouldn't have, but I was in no mood to do more than microwave something.  I entered my stuff in Cronometer so I would have to burn 890 calories to undo what I did.  I knew I could likely do it if we did our scheduled workout instead of painting like we've done the past 2 Sundays.  We went to Home Depot to get a few things, and we came home and got to our workout.   I burned 960 calories, so that was good but doubled my sodium so my legs are good n' tight.  Womp womp.   Then it was time to wind down for the evening and psych ourselves up for the week.

What did you guys do this weekend?

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