Libby Says...
Anyone who celebrates it had a lovely, healthy, happy, joyful Christmas. Or, a lovely, healthy, happy, joyful first few nights of Hannukah. Or Kwaanza. Or any other holiday you might be celebrating around this time of year. Otherwise, I hope you just had a nice weekend that maybe had an extra day off attached. I've been spending time with my friends, and Philip's family, and missing my own family very much. Cooking a foofy, involved Christmas breakfast for Philip and some friends of ours went really well -- good food, good friends. For those who are curious, the menu included a veggie frittata (brocolli, red pepper, onion, little red potatoes, and zucchini), chocolate waffles, stollen (german christmas bread), panettone (itialian christmas bread), and some swedish bread that another friend made, and bacon, plus mimosas, egg nog coffee, and hot chocolate. Woof. Yummmmmmmy. If anyone wants the fritatta recipe, let me know. It's easy and makes a great brunch (and good leftovers). Since then, saw a movie, went bowling (Philip's 2 1/2 year old nephew loves to bowl -- at least the first 4-5 frames -- so we went. I, in case you're curious, can't bowl worth a damn, but it's not really about that when you're bowling with a 2 year old.), ate, worked... Finally went back to yoga for the first time in a month -- I'm so thankful that my cold is finally drying up and I can breathe again. Tea -- as in high tea with finger sandwiches and hats -- and sushi (not together!) await me today, along with more work Oh, and one quick meme, via Making Light: Four jobs you’ve had in your life: Waitress, Magazine Editor, Swimming teacher, computer book author Four movies you could watch over and over: Sliding Doors(Gwynneth Paltrow and the lovely voice of John Hannah), Love Actually, Interstate 60 (if you haven't seen it -- it's kooky and odd and brilliant), and Bull Durham Four places you’ve lived: New York, Houston, San Diego (Carlsbad), and Shekou, China Four TV shows you love to watch: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House, MASH, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Four places you’ve been on vacation: Bermuda, Ireland, Whistler, and Anguilla Four websites you visit daily: edbrill.com, cnn.com, lotususergroup.org, and neilgaiman.com Four of your favorite foods: Sushi, Lasagne, Peanut Butter, and Brocolli Four places you’d rather be: Anguilla, New York, Paris, Whistler Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
I've been playing with the Blogger feature "Blog This" and I have to say that if this blog software did that, I'd be blogging so often you wouldn't know what to do with yourselves! I often have 5-10 tabs open waiting to be blogged, but then I have to reboot or Philip closes some windows or whatever, and it doesn't happen. So. While I don't want to keep up two blogs permanently and I don't really want to leave my Notesgirl.com site, I may, from time to time, play over at http://thelibby.blogspot.com/. It would be coolest, of course, to be able to post directly to this blog from there somehow, but.... Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
Home from Portland on Wednesday -- missing mom and had a good time there, but also glad to be home. Felt pretty sick/exhausted all the rest of last week, but trying to crawl out of it today. Weekend was good -- Friday night we tried to go see PDQ Bach at Rice, but tickets were sold out (oversold out, actually), so had dinner at the Black Lab with Philip and David and their mom. Saturday was a sleepy/reading kind of day, but I did finish unpacking and bake some chocolate-chip/ginger/cranberry biscotti (adapted from a November 98 Cooking Light recipe) that I think turned out fairly well. Saturday night was a party at Cindy and Dave's for Lights in the Heights -- lovely lights, although I stopped at a friend's house along the route and never got any further, so I'm hoping to drive/walk the light route again sometime before Christmas. Sunday was some cleaning and some kitty decorating (yes, we used the holiday red and green) and buying a Christmas tree. Now hard at work on newsletter stuff, Lotusphere stuff, etc. Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
Enjoying a visit to chilly Portland, visiting my mom for an "early" Christmas. We've mostly been talking (we're particularly good at that In other news, I quite like this comic strip story line (via NeilGaiman.com):
Finished reading the Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, by Margaret Atwood -- wrote a short review of it on Amazon, but basically, I really enjoyed it. It was, however, too short. And I'm not sure I agree with all of the characterization, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it! :-) Now I'm rereading Emma, but I have to admit I bought an entire bag of books yesterday at Powell's -- I can't wait to delve into them. :-) Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link
Via I Speak of Dreams blog: According to American Snapshot, a majority of Americans matches the following criteria: (strike-through indicates I don't match) • Eats peanut butter at least once a week
(my cholesterol doc says I shouldn't, but I just love PB!) How about you? Americans? Are you average? Non-Americans -- just how American are you? Permanent Link to this entry: Permanent Link |
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