Apr 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t a sand sculpture, it was a sand painting. i did wake kevin, and we rushed over there and it was quite beautiful. they were almost done with it, and then, yesterday, they had a ceremony at the completion and swept it all up. here’s the sand they used. and...
Apr 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
in a couple of hours we’re going to yet another food-and-wine event sponsored by the corkscrew wine emporium. featured will be the elusive “passtel del choclo,” some kind of chilean chicken corn pie. theoretically it will be good. theoretically we’ll be...
Apr 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
we’re going to law vegas in about five weeks from now, with mom and dad. i can’t recall the last time i saw dad this excited about something. the second-to-last time he went to vegas, i believe he won $2,500. playing quarter slots. and he didn’t spend lots and lots of...
Apr 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
the king and queen! resplendent in gold! it was a successful ballet; the dancers were superb, the sets were dazzling and as you can see, the costumes were incredible. AND kevin and i never marched out into the middle of the dancers dancing. it was tiring, and i can’t...
Apr 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
and today there was a good big photo of sleeping b. herself on the cover of the A&E section of the paper, and a nice article inside plus a few other photos. unfortunately, this included a photo of me and kevin and gil. they both looked quite fine but i looked...
Apr 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
have i ever mentioned that i sometimes have that actor nightmare, where you’re in a play but you don’t know your lines or what you’re supposed to be doing, and you have no time to prepare? it’s a pretty common dream. but tonight it was kind of a reality. except in a...
Apr 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
in back of the kitties you may notice a chocolate-looking bunny. sadly, it’s not a chocolate bunny, it’s a very good replica of one that randy gave me for easter. and since we’re starting to be completely devoid of any storage space whatsoever in the whole entire...
Apr 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
i feel that although i did actually do some things today in the outside world, the world beyond this (INCREDIBLY disorganized) office, like we went running and we went to the VFW hall to hear the jazz band “real time” and danced a little – all i...
Apr 15, 2007 | Uncategorized
the other night, kind of late, i was flipping channels and stopped, of all places, on channel 14. in spfld, channel 14 is c-span, and i don’t recollect any time in my life that i’ve stopped on c-span. but the other night it was riveting. it was a show from the bbc,...
Apr 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
with all these recipes, i feel that i’m going to have to actually make one of them. this recipe doesn’t have any beef, just chicken, but all of them have both olives and raisins. this one also contains no powdered sugar, for all you diabetics out there. or all you...
Apr 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
today i also received an e-mail from my friend erica. so that’s TWO e-mails from friends today, this is quite an accomplishment for me because lately nobody at all has been writing to me, except for my husband, and i see him pretty much most of the time when one of us...
Apr 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
i’m sure that many of you are in the midst of making the recipe that i linked for the chilean corn pie, the elusive passtel de choclo. when i read this recipe yesterday (on cooks.com), i realized that the directions instruct you to “add meat and cook until...
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
there, i spent two more minutes searching online and found the elusive Passtel de Choclo. it’s chilean corn pie, which doesn’t sound quite as glamorous as the chilean words for it. it has creamed corn and raisins and olives in it, which sounds a little bit odd. DON’T...
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
so i looked up Passtel de Choclo on an internet translation site. it didn’t know the word passtel, but it said that choclo meant sabot. WHAT’S SABOT?
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
here’s the compelling and dramatic conclusion to the prescription chicken pie website: trag to warm up itself, licor with flavor to fruit, and. She said, we not encontr nothing suspicious in the quarters of. Nobodies of flour of them, Firebrass, it stopped, said despu...
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
we’re going to a wine dinner in a couple of weeks, and one of the dishes they’re serving is called Passtel de Choclo, a traditional Chilean dish. that’s all they said about it, though, so i wanted to see what was in it. i had to share with you the first entry i found...
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Apr 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
mom sent me some photos which were forwarded by her friend stan. i have no info about them, except they’re titled “start of Katrina.”
Apr 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
as i was running on the treadmill this morning, i watched the press conference with the Rutger Women’s basketball team. as i’m sure you’ve heard by now (unless you’re living in a cave, afraid you’re going to be assaulted with more stories of anna nicole not to mention...
Apr 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
kevin didn’t buy one toilet, he bought TWO. two for one sale? nope, he decided that since one went bad, he should replace both of them. the roto rooter man installed one, and kevin installed the other, and dad was quite impressed that kevin knew how to do that. the...
Apr 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
that’s what the roto rooter man found in our toilet. the pets are off the hook. for now, anyway. mr. RR and i are now waiting for the return of kevin and our new toilet. breathless anticipation is the only way to describe the excitement level around here. and speaking...
Apr 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
we’re having the family over for dinner tomorrow night because it’s EASTER. not that we’ve ever actually really celebrated easter in my own family, except for the baskets full of candy when i was a kid. but tomorrow night, TURKEY, and i was in a quandry about how to...
Apr 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
on the bright side, at least we didn’t have a foot or two of snow here, like they did in the northeast. i’d like to go to maine someday, but only in the middle of summer when there’s probably very little chance of snow. that is all now on this good friday. GOOD...
Apr 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
every day i open the paper and yet another republican has entered the presidential race. i keep thinking that if the list continues to grow at this pace, soon there will be at least one person from each and every state in the union. i’ve been giving some serious...
Apr 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
whew, managed somehow to get through monday alive. it was a spectacularly beautiful day, and we spent part of it planting many things in the garden, including carrots, which bunnies totally devoured last year. perhaps that won’t happen this year, because we’re...
Apr 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
gone to bed already. instead, i’m looking at news on the internet and there are MORE PET FOOD RECALLS. soon they’re going to find out that it’s all tainted. but they can’t figure out just exactly what is going on, and they keep adding products to the list. now it...
Apr 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
hmmmm. the big story is that hilary clinton has raised FORTY TWO BAZILLION MILLION QUATRILLION HUNDRED ZILLION JILLION DOLLARS, more than ANY PERSON EVER has raised at this point in a presidential campaign. that’s what happens when you have this really good...
