Weathering a Fat Tuesday

I didn't even realize it was Fat Tuesday until I just glimpsed at something on the Internet faintly Mardi Gras related. So odd that last year we celebrated SO big and this year I didn't even know it was happening.

I still had a fantastic day however. We had our house looked at for weatherization through a grant program I heard about. After our evaluation we are getting a new fridge, furnace, water heater, and a bunch of other stuff like door weatherization and more insulation blew into our walls all for free! Well, we could pay $75 if we want an ice maker on our fridge, but we opted out. Whoopee! What a GIGANTIC savings! If this year has taught me one thing, it is to ask. I think we are getting all this because there hasn't been a whole lot of participants and all you have to do is ask for an evaluation.

To celebrate Fat Tuesday and our grant we called up Frederique and Brian who were out with Lee and Diane and met up with them at Jodi's in Monona. For everyone but me it was the first time they ate there. As I said to Bryce on the way home "I think they didn't hate it." Which is a compliment for two of the pickiest foodies I know. They spent too much time in Boston.

On a side note, Lee and Diane, who run the theater are pleasing me to pieces. Besides bringing 3D to the theater they are now cooking food. I have had two amazing Chicago Hot Dogs and they are showing movies at more times. 4 and 7:30 rather than just 7. Yesterday mom could stay at 4 so Bryce and I went without child to see It's Complicated. It was a super funny movie. Much more than I thought it would be. Once I got over how much everyone smiled and laughed I loved it. The interior and landscape design was like design porn. And that was pretty much the most realistic pot scene I have ever seen. Bryce loved it too, although he said it is sometimes hard to relate to movies where money is no object for the characters.