6:10pm: I arrive home with a giant bag of groceries because I made the cardinal mistake of going groceries shopping while hungry. I ended up with like 2 bags of pop chips, salsa, 2 different giant jars of pickles(got two to test out different brands) and forgot 2 ingredients for the dinner I was making. I am making chicken massaman curry with basmati brown rice and a green salad.I forgot the peanuts and cilantro.

Me at the grocery store,  "I should probably get 18 hams just to be safe - wait I'm making chicken." — Me at the grocery store, "I should probably get 18 hams just to be safe - wait I'm making chicken."

Katie is waiting outside my building because Katie is always on time or early and I said 6:00pm – so she’s already been here for 20 minutes. Whoops!

6:30pm: Brenna arrives. I have asked her to grab some plain unsalted roasted peanuts on her way since I forgot. She stopped into Duane Reade thinking they would have peanuts, as peanuts are normal food item/snack food. Well Duane Reade had honey roasted peanuts, spicy peanuts, thai chili peanuts, BBQ peanuts but no plain peanuts. So Brenna being creative bought a pack of mixed roasted nuts and proceeded to sort out the peanuts from the other nuts on my kitchen table. Now that is a true friend.

6:35pm: I begin cooking the curry. Now I cook Thai Curry the traditional way, meaning I combine curry paste from a can with words in Thai & English (authentic) with a can of coconut milk. If you’re not familiar with curry pastes, they are the best – so easy and cheap. I didn’t realize until I was like 21 that curry isn’t a spice. I thought it was a spice because growing up my mom had a jar labeled“curry powder” on the spice rack, but this is actually just a blend of spices that western (white) people call curry powder because we are idiots. Curry is essentially just a way of preparing the food with lots of spices.** Curry i.e. the world’s favorite dish created to hide the smell and taste of spoiled meat.

Who cares that this meat is questionable, tikka masala is my favorite.

7:00pm: Curry still isn’t ready. I had a bunch of potatoes I had to get rid of so I put them into the curry. I never cook potatoes because I am not an Irish Peasant in the first half of the 19th century*, and since I never cook potatoes I forgot how long the damn tubers take to cook. And undercooked potatoes are disgusting you might as well be eating Styrofoam. So as I wait for these dumb filler food, not vegetables to cook the actual vegetables in the curry are overcooking even though I put them in way way later. DAMN YOU POTATOES!

7:20pm: We sit down for dinner.

The Curry is good, mild. It’s the first time I have made a Thai curry that wasn’t so spicy it made Katie cry.***

Tears of freaking Joy because it was SO GOOD.

7:45pm: Open a second bottle of Pinot Noir, called Light Horse, the first bottle of Pinot Noir was called Dark Horse. These are not the same company. There was no planning to this. The universe is fucking with me. The real question is why are there so many wines named after horses? Concerning. Be even more freaked out when you read this PETA article about why wine isn’t vegan.

8:00pm: We put on the Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Bronsnan, which I have never seen. It’s sort of James Bond but with no killing, a very rich smart man steals a painting. It’s a very silly movie, which would have you suspend logic in many ways. SPOILERS AHEAD So - #1 He takes the painting out of the frame and puts it in a special briefcase but the painting still has the wood stretchers behind it. How does he fold a painting that still has the wood? #2 How does one paint over an oil painting with WATERCOLOR paint so convincingly? Is that even possible? #3 It is never explained how he steals a painting from behind metal security lock down doors. But it is an entertaining movie, there is a very nice see-thru dress scene, witty banter, topless sunbathing, and the leading lady drinks GREEN JUICE in 1999 and it’s a big thing. No one would even bat an eye at anyone drinking anything green now. Green Juice is the new water.

Somethings change but Pierce always parties like it's 1999

*Obviously as most people know the Irish Potato Famine occurred in the 1840s and then sadly Irish peasants weren’t eating anything…

**I am not quite sure that this definition is correct either. Indian/Thai friends please just correct me if this is wrong. Thank you.