LolaGeek

Well, my Mount Laurel and Bellmawr, NJ visitors have certainly been busy reading my blog recently! Visits from Plymouth Meeting, PA have also picked up, as well as someone in Sanford, FL. At least someone has added me to their Google Reader, though, instead of doing a Google search for my blog every time. So, who are you all?

Actually, this is a call for all unidentified blog readers to identify yourselves. Who are you and how did you find me? Or if it was so long ago you don’t remember how you found me, why do you continue reading? Leave a comment, or just pop me an e-mail if you prefer to remain a lurker :o)

We were thinking of going to New Hope and/or the Mercer Museum on Saturday if the weather was nice, but actually it was supposed to be rainy and gross, so instead we went to the Brandywine River Museum. They had an exhibit called “Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators,” which GG as an illustrator liked. Plus we are both into N.C. Wyeth, GG as an illustrator and me as a fan of pirates. (Actually, the one piece of artwork currently hanging [well, leaning] in our living room is a poster of his Treasure Island cover.)

We also took an extra trip to the Wyeth house and studio, which neither of us had been to before. It was really neat! I wish we’d been able to see more of the house, because we really only saw like two rooms, but it was very interesting and we learned a lot about the Wyeth family. The studio was amazing. So much more spacious than it looked from outside, and he had one large room with a high ceiling and sunken floor where he worked on his huge murals – which was also interesting to GG the muralist! I wish we’d been allowed to take pictures, because there’s only like two pictures on the museum’s web site.

When we’d seen everything at the museum, we were going to have lunch at their cafeteria, but after taking a look at the clientele, and seeing that the day’s specials included a liver and onion sandwich, we instead decided to eat at a restaurant we’d noticed on the bus ride from the museum to the house and studio tour. So we had lunch at Bistro on the Brandywine, which was excellent. I would love to go back again to try some of their other dishes, because it was hard to decide on one thing for lunch! I ended up with one of their stone hearth pizzas, topped with pears, gorgonzola, mozzarella, pine nuts, and truffle honey. It was delicious! I ate the whole thing (with a little help from GG). GG had basically a classy cheesesteak that was supposed to come with gorgonzola, but due to his fear of stinky cheese, he got mozzarella on it. We would’ve gone for dessert, too, but we were really stuffed.

After coming home, I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening doing some stuff for band, and otherwise hanging around. GG and I were all set to watch SNL at 11:30. Of course, I fell asleep after the first sketch (better than I usually do, actually), and GG said he fell asleep after Weekend Update. Will I ever be able to watch a full episode when it airs?!

Today was my day for chores. I did laundry, cleaning the kitchen, and running the dishwasher. Also did our food shopping for the week. And I took a quick afternoon nap :o) Tomorrow’s my busy day at work, but this was a kind of low-volume issuance period, so hopefully it won’t be that crazy. Maybe I can catch up with some of my data entry work…