If nothing else, Valentine's Day gives me a chance to be publicly obnoxious (more so). I got some very nice perfume that I've had my eye on that I wore when we went out to dinner at Naked Fish Bistro, which was excellent.

And finally:


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I'm sitting here watching my parents and brother playing Scrabble; edfox, Cheng (my Thai-Chinese sister-in-law), and I alternate between making snarky comments and being supportive, mostly by interfering with Justin (my brother) trying to play his turns.

Ed and I have been in the Lehigh Valley since Monday evening, when he and I arrived on a bus from ( Read more... )

Last Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent, which is the beginning of the Catholic liturgical year.  Around the time the first (purple) candle was being lit, it occurred to me that perhaps I should get an Advent wreath for home. I did some shopping on Amazon and found some nice wreaths, but the one I kept coming back to was this one. It was on the ( Read more... )

And so, the season of Christmas shopping begins. I have not begun to do any shopping mostly because I keep forgetting. Ed has put me in charge of all the shopping, which is probably a mistake, because I'm missing the Girly Gene that would make it necessary for me to actually enjoy shopping.

We did do some shopping today, though. St. Joe's is one ( Read more... )

Tonight Ed and I went to our first Christmas concert of the season, which featured the Utah Premiere Brass and the Salt Lake Choral Artists (consisting of five separate choirs: the Concert Choir, the Chamber Choir, the Women's Choir, the Salt Lake Vocal Artists, and the Young Choral Artists), who sang both separately and together in various ( Read more... )

I think this may be the quietest Thanksgiving I'll have ever celebrated: just Ed and myself with all the traditional fixins, spending the time enjoying the holiday together sans family.

Tonight's menu:

• turkey (brined)
• potatoes (mashed)
• stuffing (I decided against making sausage stuffing this year; it is possible to have too much stuffing for ( Read more... )