Rainy sunday...

Yesterday was a bit of a crazy day but it was fun! I had two classes in the morning, then I had to go shopping for the dinner party, clean the apartment, pick up Joey and then start cooking!!! Joey obliged my preparations by falling asleep when he got back from daycare and staying that way until 5 minutes before the guests arrived. D had work and then he went to the chiropractor as he is having back problems too so he was no help at all but having him out from under my feet was probably the biggest help of all!!! LOL! The only problem was that he came home AFTER the guests had arrived which made them a little uncomfortable at first, they kept saying they would come back when he came home and I kept saying that if they did that, everything would get cold and icky!!! We ended up starting without D! The menu was my standard "first time dinner chez Midori" menu.. We had mozarella and tomato salad, garlic and herb cheese with crackers, and some "kari kari cheezu" (cheese wrapped in spring roll covers and deep-fried), tortilla chips and salsa as appetisers. Then we had shephard`s pie with vegetables as a main and for dessert we had trifle and I had also made oatmeal and raisin cookies so we had those with tea afterwards. (Turns out the guy who lives downstairs LOVES oatmeal and raisin cookies) It was a nice evening and they seemed to enjoy the food. We had beer, yummy white wine (which they brought) and shochu. Joey had a fab time playing with their 11 year old daughter and we talked until nearly midnight. It was a really nice chilled out evening and I am kicking myself for not taking pictures!!! We went to our favourite tonkatsu place for lunch today and now Daisuke has gone off to run some errands/ go to the gym, Joey is asleep so I am going to curl up on the hot carpet and watch all the satellite programmes I can before our free trial runs out! (Which I thought would be yesterday but we still have channels today so who knows...)