{"id":30802,"date":"2016-12-02T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=30802"},"modified":"2016-12-02T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:00:26","slug":"feels-rather-like-a-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/feels-rather-like-a-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels Rather Like a Friday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a work week! I’m feeling ready to keel over. I had several very late evenings when express jobs that pay well\u00a0for the effort required came in, so I’ve been burning the midnight oil. I decided to push through and do extra work today so that I could take tomorrow off since it’s supposed to be lovely and perfect malec\u00f3n walking weather. It’ll rain from Sunday on for a few days and I’ll be able to get back to work refreshed (well, somewhat).<\/p>\n

The only fun thing I did all week was head out between jobs one evening for a ca\u00f1a and a chorizo tapa — and I couldn’t even tell you which night! It was lovely to be greeted with my beverage order and a newspaper without having to ask for them!<\/p>\n

The cat has been remarkably good company. I don’t think I’ve ever in my life gotten along so well with a cat before — and I’ve had a lot<\/em> of cats in my life!\u00a0I don’t know if I’ve just been lucky with cats, but I seem to have a connection with the species.<\/p>\n

I’m happy to know that I’ll have a cat in my life again straight through the first week of February and very likely through to March as I may have picked up\u00a0a sit in Lancashire (about an hour from Hebden Bridge) for the rest of February. Wouldn’t that be something if I did?<\/p>\n

Tonight, I really needed a change of scenery and actually considered going into Almer\u00eda for dinner. But the closer I got to the Spanish dinner hour, the more that idea seemed like a bad one as I was fading very fast. And then it hit me that the best meal I have had thus far in Spain was at the Mexican restaurant just up the street from here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

So off I went there for dinner. I ordered a ca\u00f1a, which turned out to be 2 euros, so I should have just splurged on the 3 euro Mexican beer. But for my main, I picked the 10 euro pork enchilada platter rather than the 13 euro one I had last time. That meant one fewer enchilada and no rice (but still lots of their wonderful salad and plenty of food). This time, they came with wheat tortillas, but I was told that they had chiles curtidos if I wanted my meal spicy!!! The chiles\u00a0were just<\/em> like the ones in\u00a0Mexico, so worth all those exclamation points. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Again, not a cheap meal, but such good value for the quality and enjoyment I got out of it and exactly the pick me up I needed tonight. I told the server that theirs is without competition the best\u00a0Mexican-style food I’ve had out of\u00a0Mexico and he was really surprised to hear that — but it is! Just another subtle sign that I’m exactly where I need to be right now. \ud83d\ude42 I really cannot convey just how content<\/em> I’ve been here and I can’t believe that two weeks from now, I’ll very likely be\u00a0enjoying my first night in\u00a0M\u00e1laga!<\/p>\n

I’m off to go stare at the insides of my eyelids for hopefully eight to ten hours straight. Zzzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a work week! I’m feeling ready to keel over. I had several very late evenings when express jobs that pay well\u00a0for the effort required came in, so I’ve been burning the midnight oil. I decided to push through and do extra work today so that I could take tomorrow off since it’s supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1485,636,1484,3,8],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-30802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almeria","category-europe","category-spain","category-travel","category-work","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}