at least, i think that's how pooh spelled it. wobbly and all.
peach cobbler $3.50
parking $45.00
total $48.50.
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at least, i think that's how pooh spelled it. wobbly and all.
peach cobbler $3.50
parking $45.00
total $48.50.
Posted on Friday, 26 June 2009 at 09:09 PM in Current Affairs, Food and Drink, knitting, Relationships, Television | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Posted on Sunday, 22 March 2009 at 08:40 PM in Food and Drink, health, knitting | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
anything, if you buy all the veggies prechopped and the turkey kielbasa precooked. i have been trying to eat more healthily, like i did before we got married, and that means cooking. and shopping. i had a wonderful, peaceful, sensory-overloading time at whole foods yesterday and bought all kinds of yummy, healthy things. i forget how colorful and beautiful real food is.
Posted on Thursday, 12 March 2009 at 07:23 PM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
let me just start by saying ow. owie owowowow. not the migraine i had this afternoon, which has settled down, but my right hand and wrist. i knitted too much on my queen of beads socks too quickly, i guess, not enough breaks or something, and it HURTS. (the reward, however, is pretty wonderful: pretty new socks for me!)
Posted on Sunday, 01 March 2009 at 07:28 PM in Books, Food and Drink, knitting, Relationships | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
from the time when i was old enough to buy gifts for people until probably 10 years ago, i was a regular martha. i planned and cooked every meal; had dinner, movie, and game parties every month; and bought gifts months in advance. (i was a lousy housekeeper, but we'll ignore that for the moment.)
Posted on Saturday, 29 November 2008 at 06:36 PM in Food and Drink, health, Relationships | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
well, how about this? a couple of years ago, a bunch of girlfriends and i got together in middleburg for a just-girls weekend. we stayed at briar patch bed and breakfast, a beautiful, peaceful b&b just outside of town. kim and lotta stayed in the big house, and vickie, handan, and...eep! i can't remember the other person! shared the cottage out back. we brought food to make in the cottage kitchen, though we ate so much in town that i don't think any of us had an appetite for anything else. breakfast was, of course, yummy.
when we were there, those were really the only two buildings open to guests. we saw while we were there that they were rehabbing a stable or garage (both?). i've read about the progress and other changes they've made there since we were there, thanks to the owners' email newsletters that come out a couple times a year. they started doing cooking classes with local chefs teaching and they've started hosting weddings and conferences in the new building. and apparently somewhere there's a pool? i dunno.
anyway, this morning i woke up (not by myself; i'll let you imagine how a light sleeper might be awakened by two 60-pound labs, a cat who never shuts up, and an air-conditioning air handler in the next room that shuts the fan off with a loud BANG!) at 3ish, spent a few quality moments with chloe (the good cat), and checked email. what should i find but one of the goldbergs' email newsletters announcing a new briar patch web site. lo and behold, they were even holding a clever little contest: answer the magic question and win a prize! i thought, "i can read," and trawled the web site for the answer. found it and emailed the owner. and looky here! i won! (who'd a thunk it--they sent it out at 2-something, so i answered like an hour later.)
guess what i won? a cooking-class weekend for two people, including a room in the main house for two nights, wine tasting and hors d'oeuvres on friday night, and the cooking class with a four-course meal and wine on saturday night. can you believe it? all that just for answering a question? there are two cooking-class weekends left this year. not sure when i'll go, but i can't wait! who's coming with me?
Posted on Thursday, 11 September 2008 at 06:17 PM in Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
key one in dr. phil's plan is about right thinking. and the first thing i'm supposed to do to master this key is to determine my weight locus of control. here goes.
my internal locus of control
gaining, losing, and maintaining weight is entirely up to me. no one else is going to do this for me.
i am overweight as a result of my eating habits and as a result of being inactive and not getting enough exercise.
if i set realistic, measurable goals, i can lose weight no matter what.
failure to keep my weight off is due to poor effort on my part.
my external locus of control
family history has not really determined my weight or size.
i don't need a structured, formal diet program to lose weight.
i don't depend on doctors or nutritionists to help me lose weight.
i don't need prescription diet pills or other diet aids to lose weight.
i don't overeat just because there is too much tempting food in my environment.
chance weight locus of control
being at my ideal weight is a matter of eating right and being active, not good fortune.
my failure to lose weight is not bad luck; it's my choices and actions in the past two years.
if i went on a diet, i'd fail from time to time. i need to make good nutrition, hydration, and activity priorities in my everyday life as constant choices.
gaining, losing, or maintaining weight is not inevitable, but is driven by my choices throughout every day.
i don't need luck to stick to my exercise program, but planning and will.
according to dr. phil's scoring for this process, i highly attribute my weight to internal responsibilities. (read: i internalize everything.) i hardly attribute my weight at all to external responsibilities or chance.
Posted on Sunday, 06 January 2008 at 02:59 PM in Food and Drink, health | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
had a great knitting outing yesterday. i always have a good time when anna and i go out, because we laugh a lot and she reminds me so of lisa, whom i never get to see enough. yesterday, we met beth, michelle, and beth's friend molly over at natural stitches. i go there at least once a week--it's sad and funny all at the same time. the staff must do a little jig inside when they see me coming, because i'll probably pay their wages for that day. ah, well. it's a good hobby and it makes me very happy. and it's nice to go where everybody knows your name.
also fun because it was beth's first trip into that particular shop, and molly had never knitted before. beth had brought her some yarn, and molly bought some needles. i made sure to get molly to fondle lots of nice yarn so she knew what the good stuff felt like. happily, she had an appreciation for silk and cashmere right from the start :) good woman.
we went to abay for lunch. so yummy but spicy and filling. i ended up bringing most of mine home for smartboy's dinner. he didn't mind. i love the food there, and i love that it's very healthy. i think beth and molly hadn't been there before, so it was fun to see them enjoy it so much. i had an $8 combo platter that had a piece of soft flatbread smothered with my four choices: azifah, which is a little salad of whole brown lentils, diced onions, green peppers, spices, and lime juice; butecha, which is a yummy little scoop of ground chickpeas, onions, and peppers; kay wat, which is stewing beef in a barbecue-like sauce; and doro tibs, which is chicken breast pieces with peppers, onions, and herbs in a light sauce. so good. and i had a spiced apple beer to drink that was also yummy.
then we headed to borders to knit. i love that the whole east liberty area seems to be getting more businesses, though we all worry about the survival of the decades-old businesses that line penn avenue and the side streets around it. there are some beautiful old storefronts with original vitrolite, original signage, and chrome and glass block trim. i hope that they'll see increases in traffic and business as the chain stores and more upscale locals that open around them start to flourish. anyway, borders was a blast. i found a copy of curly girl (turns out i have botticelli curls), and we all camped out in a corner and laughed so hard. conversation goes in the craziest directions when we get together. i picked up anna's stitches and she weaved in some ends for me. i helped (i think) beth teach molly to knit, and i cast on for smartboy's cobblestone pullover. i'm using a very soft, tweed-flecked, forest green alpaca-wool-microfiber-viscose blend. i think it's going to be really perfect for him; the garter-stitch yoke should enhance the pects, and the straight cut (no ribbed hem) should slim the waist. plus it's a very easy knit.
afterward, i stopped at trader joe's for some fresh produce and meat, which i hope will keep us from eating so much prepared food with all its chemicals and preservatives. after dropping anna off, i drove molly home. i loved making this new friend, who is hilarious and interesting and happens to live in my 'hood. she's also planning a wedding, which i love to do, so fun stuff to talk about.
all in all, a really fun afternoon. i was exhausted when i got home and wanted nothing more than a nap. that's the mark of a good day. and this morning, i had new projects to knit. what's better than that? (answer: for a knitter, nothing.)
Posted on Sunday, 06 January 2008 at 12:13 PM in Food and Drink, knitting, Relationships | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
man, a crunch week at work really cramps my lifestyle. seriously. enough of the rush projects! three more landed on me early in the week, i had others already in process, and more are coming. did anyone mention thanksgiving? yeah, i didn't think so.
not that i'm complaining. i am a true type a, love to be busy, thrive on deadlines. i worked like mad to get everything done and was amazed to find last night that i finished everything i had. i worked for a few hours this morning, then went to the mailing center to send the architectural drawings to the code-enforcement office (yay building permits!), and then...the new yarn shop! squee! it was fantastic. so many yarns i've never seen, oodles of color, plenty to fondle. it was fab. i bought a little here
(three new addi turbo lace needles for socks magic-loop style). and i spent a little here
(eight skeins of lorna's laces shepherd sock in black watch
(not my photo--from yarn for socks) to make the pretty as a peacock shawl. the colors are very peacock-like. i am so excited to cast on tonight.
alas, time at the shop ended after two slow and longing trips around the store and paying the nice lady for my purchases :) i found lots and lots of things to get on another day, and i told smartboy that a gift certificate to the shop is hereafter the perfect gift for me :)
but i had to hurry home to pick up around the house a little, because today the general contractor, the insulation subcontractor, the hvac contractor, and the architect were meeting us at the house. the hvac guy never showed :( + ! but we had a great meeting with the other three. WE CAN HAZ STAIRS ON NOVEMBER 28!!!1!! omg ponies! i am SO excited. we'll finally have a third floor! we will have a master bedroom! we can buy a new bed!! squeee!!! i cannot wait. and the insulation guy is awesome; we're getting blown-in cellulose (made from recycled newspaper) in all the exterior walls, which should make the house a lot warmer and of a stabler temperature than it ever has been (currently i'm pretty sure that there's zero insulation--we had heating bills in the several hundreds in the coldest months last year).
i didn't make it to the grocery store like i'd hoped, though; i wanted to get some nonperishables today so that my just-before-thanksgiving trip would be a little easier. but i've made my list, so if i get up the nerve to walk into whole foods tomorrow, i'll know what to get. i'm making two batches of soup--one with bacon and one vegetarian--two batches of brussels sprouts--one with pancetta and one vegetarian--and vegetarianizing the stuffing recipe. we're having two vegetarians (actually, one wants a salmon steak instead of turkey, so she's not *really* a vegetarian), so i'm making everything good for everyone :)
and tonight i'm casting on for the peacock shawl, and i get to knit more of it tomorrow with anna and beth. yay girl time!
AND i got my ravelry tees and buttons today! i'm going to wear one of them tomorrow along with my juliet (provided that i can make myself put some buttons on it). yay ravelry! yay knitting! yay weekend!!
Posted on Friday, 16 November 2007 at 09:09 PM in Food and Drink, knitting, our house is a very, very, very fine house, what to wear | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
man, what a lazy weekend. last night, after taking claudia and neal to dinner at la feria (yum-o!) and showing them a little of the east end neighborhoods, i knitted a bit but mostly read blogs and email. i caught up on my soaps and dr. phil, took the dogs for a late walk, and collapsed into bed. i had my usual bizarre dreams but woke up in the middle of the night with a heinous headache. this has been happening a lot. my dentist says that at least some of it is due to tooth grinding and jaw clenching, so she's fitting a splint for me to wear during my sleep. i've been doing this for more than 20 years, but my current splint isn't actually a splint; it's a tooth-whitening tray made of rubber. but i didn't want to get out of bed to take anything for the pain because it hurt too much to move, much less think about anything enough to get myself a drink and take a pill. plus, if i had, the dogs would have thought it was time to go out for a walk, and i would never have gotten them settled in for sleep.
but this was stupidity. i couldn't sleep through the pain very well at all. eventually, the dogs became so impatient for me to get up that i finally did (plus i had to pee). so i experimented with the whole pain-relief thing: i rubbed a bit of ben-gay on my jaw joint and a little above and below it, took the motrin that my dentist prescribed, and put some polar frost on my temples to ease the migraine. it didn't get rid of the pain or inflammation completely, but it was good enough that i could eat some oatmeal and chill for a bit before i took the dogs out. they were VERY happy to get outside by then, poor things. but this is why i hate being in charge of taking care of the dogs (and why i'll never have children): my head pain is just too unreliable. or it makes *me* too unreliable, i guess i should say.
anyway, after an uneventful trip outside--damn, these are good dogs, i must say--we came back inside and i watched my morning show. i took a long nap and putzed on the computer this afternoon, the closest things to effort being expended on (a) making a plan for vegetarian options for my thanksgiving menu (fortunately, not as hard as i thought it would be--she won't eat the turkey, obviously, and i need to find a vegan or vegetarian gelatin substitute for the cranberry mold, but otherwise it's just a matter of making a separate little pan of chowder with no bacon, putting the pancetta aside for the brussels sprouts and radicchio, and making a separate ramekin of dressing with no sausage (or maybe vegetarian sausage) and (b) making a few decorating and layout decisions about the bedroom. i decided to stick with earth tones for the paint and reaffirmed my decision to put the bed against the west wall.
i ordered dinner in tonight from ali baba; since wheel deliver took so long (for the second time in a row) to get my food to me, they paid for it. so free dinner! w00t! shish tawook (i LOVE the salad and rice, and there's plenty left for tomorrow--i just wish i'd ordered some hummus for the pitas) and oreo cheesecake. i didn't really need the latter, but it was yummy.
the dogs were great on their walks, too. these are seriously good dogs. luxo never fails to amaze me with how smart he is. smartboy trained him in just a few evenings to bring the food balls not just to him at the food bin but right in his hand. so cool. and when i put their harnesses on, he aims his nose right through the straps to make it easier to get on. he is SO an example of the premack principle--he gets it like crazy. (the premack principle is the idea that you can get the dog to do something that doesn't really excite him--say, bringing a food ball or standing still for a harness--to get something he really wants--say, food or a trip outside. he also runs to his crate as soon as he knows it's time for walks, because he knows that the sooner he does that, the sooner we'll get zuzu back from her walk and get him. seriously amazing dog.)
and now i'm chilling with "trading spaces," which i haven't seen in a while--we tivo new episodes, but it hasn't had any for a while. i am loving the new designers and carpenters (well, faber's not new, but he's adorable and wonderful anyway). i love all these shows. i pretend i've been in training for this renovation for 15 years :) as if.
oh--speaking of the renovation, the building permit and no-lien agreement are all but complete, and the contractor should be starting work any day now. squee!! i'll be trying to keep up with it all (including before, progress, and after photos) on the house blog, if you're interested.
Posted on Saturday, 27 October 2007 at 11:07 PM in Food and Drink, health, knitting, our house is a very, very, very fine house, Sports | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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