Many thanks for all your suggestions - the party turned out well! Everyone seemed to be impressed that I had a menu planned and a good wine bottle opener and all those other little ingredients and gadgets to make food preparation and serving work. heh. ( notes about parties, wine, cheese, and cooking )

I think it's hilarious that I've used this post title before.So the reason I've been so productive about the apt lately is (a) it's a NYR, (b) I have BNE studying I'm procrastinating, and (c) I invited my cow orkers over for drinks next week. Sometimes it just takes a hard deadline ( Read more... )

I thought "bake a cake" would be the easiest of my New Year's resolutions, especially after meep's encouraging words, but I was wrong.

The reason it was even on the list is that in a mad shopping trip at Michael's, I bought adorable little cake pans. Last week, my parents brought me two CostCo containers of fruit and I noticed the blueberries were ( Read more... )

It's been a week since my haircut and I'm crying fail: it's just as unmanageable as it was 2 weeks ago :( I won't go back to Susan, but I might try another person at the same salon, bc convenience is important when you work out eleventy-seven times a week. Also, next haircut, I'm not letting them talk me into anything, I'm really really growing ( Read more... )

I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes the trouble. -James Bond ( Read more... )

I think it's interesting that the only Republican Jew in Congress is from the south, not the northeast. He was supposed to speak about the election and its effect on American-Israel relations, but instead babbled about how awesome AIPAC is instead. oh well. He was easy on the eyes and had a nice Virginny accent, so I didn't mind much ( Read more... )

2007 was the bestest year evuh, for me personally, bc I accomplished all sorts of things I'd wanted to do, but hadn't. I climbed one of the seven summits and ran a marathon. I visited Walt Disney World as an adult and went on essentially every ride in the parks. I had the best sex possible in the history of mankind, flewed, and got tied up a lot ( Read more... )

I recognize that my gym's shiny new equipment and 528627591 locations are subsidized by idjits who sign up in January and don't go all year. That said, I'm still pissy that I couldn't get through to the gym this morning to get a spot in 6:30am spin class and now I'm shut out by bloody idiots who won't even sustain the effort through Feb and are ( Read more... )

If there is anyone I have been unkind to or wronged in the past year, through thoughtlessness, impatience, and all my other faults, I hope you can forgive me. I hope to make it up to you and/or do better in the coming year. I don't think 5767 was a particularly good or bad year on these counts, but I feel different going into 5768. For the ( Read more... )

It was a more prosaic exercise-full weekend, I'm afraid. Sat morning I lifted weights for the first time since before Africa. It seemed low key - five plates of help with my chinups, 20lbs for flat chest presses, no weight for my step-ups - but I was hobbling the next morning. Apparently there's a difference between admiring someone else's ( Read more... )