Saturday morning musings

It’s Saturday morning and I’m patiently awaiting the arrival of my boyfriend who has been away on business all week. I have 2 magazines to peruse over breakfast that I inadvertently paid large sums of money for. Apparently, importing British magazines all the way to Germany is not cheap. I didn’t think Britain was really all that far from here. But maybe that’s because I’m from Canada, where a 6 hour car ride is really just a Sunday drive. But apparently the man selling the magazines considers these a specialty import item. What do I know. After I shelled out nearly 20 euros for a copy of Elle and a copy of In Style, I am determined to read every inch of text inside. These are the first English language magazines I’ve found since moving to Heidelberg and I will savour them to their fullest. Well, admittedly I will probably just flip through the pages and ponder whether or not Reese Witherspoon looks better with brown or blond hair. And Rene Zellweger, same question. When I’ve tried in the past to get my boyfriend engaged in the topic with me, he usually looks at the pictures with a blank stare. And I’m sure he’s always hoping that if he stands there long enough that I will forget that I even asked him and that I’ll just go back to my magazine and talk about the next picture that catches my eye. Sometimes when he is looking particularly thoughtful I ask him “What are you thinking about?” expecting some sort of romantic answer, a peek into the man’s soul. And he usually seems startled, and he blinks at me once, then twice, as his brain reboots and he answers “Code.” Yes it’s true, he writes code in his head, all the live long day. His brain is a computer that just won’t shut down, it won’t even go on standby.

Nevertheless, to celebrate his return, I am going to make Martha’s Lemon Custard Cakes from her website. Which don’t really seem like cakes at all to me because the picture looks very much like pudding in a bowl. But ok. Who am I to argue with Martha. And the man loves his custard so I’ll give the recipe a try. I’ll let you know how it goes..