• 15th: Had our annual department holiday party with food from Buca Di Beppo's and yummy desserts from Costco (chocolate to die for cake!). Have now convinced some coworkers that eggplant can be delicious. I had won a belgium waffle maker, but mean old Jennifer took it away. *sniff* Besides bottles of Jack Daniels and wine, the one of the most ( Read more... )

Yesterday started out with calling up K and singing her Happy Birthday in Spanish. A little bit later, I picked up both K & G, and went over to Costco for a wee bit of retail therapy. NOT. The parking lot was crazy - so we drove in and then just drove right out again. K & I ended up at Safeway (which was also a madhouse) and picked up the few ( Read more... )

Wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous New Year ( Read more... )

Let's see, what happened after Christmas?
It turned out to be a very busy week!

• Kidlets had a sleep over
• Was going to have dinner with Lee on Saturday, but it got postponed
• Had breakfast at Jim's with Lee the next morning instead
• Went to Tokyo Fish Market and it was pretty empty - they're usually open the Sunday before New Year's. Bought everything ( Read more... )

• My sister loves me, yes, she does. She fed her kidlets chocolate cake and then sent them over to my place for a sleep over. Yes, it's 11:20pm and the kidlets are still madly giggling as they try to be QUIET
  
• Be very careful next time while emptying out the package of dried shiitake mushrooms. There's this little packet of desiccant that you're ( Read more... )