Yesterday was quite the day. After staying up late to watch the Buckeye’s loose (bummer!), we went to bed, so that I could wake up just a few hours later. At four in the morning I was wide awake and couldn’t sleep a wink. Lately this has been happening to me and I’m incredibly frustrated. Years of conking out as soon as my head hits my pillow and sleeping soundly until by alarm buzzes has me a bit spoiled. So I read, tossed, and attempted to sleep, but had no luck. Needless to say, I was very annoyed when it was time to get up—I had gotten almost no sleep and was dreading the thought of going to work. Seeing as it was our anniversary, I decided to spoil myself a bit and take the day off from work. It was only the second day after Christmas break, but I decided to pull a Pam (from The Office—remember the scene where she says “Every year we get 10 days to take off work. Last year I used mine by January 23”? At least it went something like that…) and declare a snow day for myself.

I spent the day cleaning the house, which was much more enjoyable than it probably sounds (most things are more enjoyable than containing sixth graders in a small classroom all day). I made a lunch and went and joined Scott down at the law school.

Yesterday evening, Scott took me to a very fancy restaurant down in the German section of town. The place was empty (after all it was 5:30 on a Tuesday night) but it was beautiful and the food was amazing. We didn’t take our camera, but here is a picture from the website.

This picture doesn’t really do the inside justice.

Apparently they change the menu every season. We felt like the judges on Iron Chef while eating (although we didn’t have any criticisms for the dishes). Here’s what we ordered off the menu:

Fried Triple Cream Brie with cider-spiced apple and raisin compote and toast points

House Salad with spiced pecans, poached pears, and Gorgonzola vinaigrette

Mustard-rubbed Grilled Lamb Rack with rosemary potato gratin, green beans, and green peppercorn sauce

Traditional Crème Brule with fresh berries

After dinner we heading to see a play Scott learned about from Law School. One of his professors was directing this little local production and they were having a formal dress rehearsal last night that we could attend for free (rather than pay to go to the production on Friday night). The theater was incredibly small and remarkable for two reasons: 1) none of the floors in the entire building are flat; they all slope at a gentle angle, 2) the theater is called The Little Theater Off Broadway. I thought they were implying that they were off the main Broadway (as in New York) but the theater was actually on a road named Broadway. It was all a bit confusing, really. The play was a bit quirky and low budget, we bet had a good time nonetheless.

Overall, it was a wonderful day. I enjoyed spending extra time with Scott and not having to raise my voice all day.

Posted by Lonica on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm.