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Yay, More Cake!
For my birthday party, you saw the big beautiful white cake, below, which was SO yummy, and I wish they had cut thicker slices for everyone….but for my ACTUAL birthday, Cherry baked me this BEAUTIFUL and oh so yummy Princess Cake. 🙂 Cherry, you ROCK! So we ate cake, drank champagne, and watched some Sex and the City. Now THAT’s a good birthday.
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New Years…time for lists?
I was surfing blogs and came across this one, via Bitch PhD, but the post was here. If you want to play, copy, update with your info, and post on your blog. I cheated a bit. 🙂 A Pack of Four Leaf Clovers A “four” themed open meme. 1. Four jobs you’ve had in your life. A. Waitress B. Horse poop cleaner (in exchange for free horseback rides) C. Business Analyst and other variations of that job D. Hotel Concierge 2. Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over A. The Company (the movie really isn’t THAT great, but I love the dancing) B. It’s a Wonderful Life C. Out…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
So here I am, 40 years old…crazy. 🙂 But so far, it’s GREAT. Ted threw me an AMAZING party at Massimo’s Restaurant last night, and so many friends and family were there. It was truly great. Having a birthday right after Christmas means often that people are broke and partied out by the time your birthday comes around…Having a birthday on New Years Eve means that if you want to go out to celebrate, there is a bigger expectation that it be amazing and fun and crazy and expensive. So my birthday has always been kind of quiet and nice, but not that amazing, with the exception of a few…
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Who’s Spoiled???
Maya, for getting her doll? Me, for getting a nice ‘dock’ for my iPod? Or Ted, for getting his DVDs that he requested? I’m thinking, ME. Most spoiled. That’s as it SHOULD be. 🙂
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Chloe and her Christmas Pig
This is my niece, Chloe, and her wooden pig that she got for Christmas. Maya made the pig in carpentry class, and we tied a ribbon around its neck so Chloe can pull it around. Apparantly it was a big hit, as my sister Maya said that they had to stop opening gifts for quite awhile while Chloe played. 🙂 Nice.
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Who Knew Santa likes to Dive, and Festivus is sort of real?
Have a Merry Christmas Everyone! Also, Happy Hannukah, Happy Festivus, Happy Solstice, Happy New Year, Happy Happy!
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Comfort Food / Breakfast
So our latest excursion into Restaurant Land (I’m getting the idea we eat in restaurants WAY too often…) was Sunday morning, at the Alamo Cafe. It’s been there FOREVER…Ted grew up in Danville, and remembers driving by it for years and years. Anyway, it’s a TINY little greasy spoon place, with one waitress, one cook, one grill, and a guy who does the other stuff, like clean tables and such. Maybe he’s a dishwasher/bus boy, who knows. We went for breakfast, and I got something I’ve never had before…pork chops and eggs. I don’t think I would go for that again…the pork chops were OK, but kind of tough. The…
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De Afghanan Restaurant
Yesterday we were out finishing up some Christmas shopping, and we decided to try a newish Afghani restaurant on Newall Ave., in the same shopping complex as Tuesday Morning and Casper’s Hot Dogs, in Downtown Walnut Creek. It’s a tiny little place, maybe 10 tables. The service was good, though the food took quite awihle to come. Ted had a lamb dish that he thought was going to be ground, but was actually little lamb chops that I thought was delicious…very flavorful with nice spices and a good texture. It was served with rice and salad. Maya ordered a dish of what were described as dumplings with leeks and potatoes…
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War on Christmas?
This whole “War on Christmas” thing has gotten a lot of stupid press this year…and it’s just lame. I’ll put in my two cents, and then we can all forget it, OK? Please? Who in hell REALLY thinks that Christmas is in danger in this country? The religious holiday may be in danger of being overrun by rabid secular (and religious, to be fair) shoppers, but how does wishing someone “Happy Holidays” threaten anyone? Seriously, have you been overwhelmed by Pagan Winter Solstice songs on the radio? Hannukah specials on TV? Or is it Christmas Christmas Christmas everywhere you look, with Santa and lights and trees and wreaths, candy and…
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I think we have a new favorite sushi place…
We tried a new (to us) sushi restaurant a few weeks ago, and it was VERY tasty. 🙂 Nama Sushi & Teriyaki on Sunnyvale Ave (Where? What? Who? Sunnyvale is the side street off of North Main in Walnut Creek, next to Pasta Primavera Too). The Miso Soup was yummy and soothing. The Teriyaki Salmon was SO GOOD. The tempura was prepared perfectly. The teriyaki sauce is not as sweet as it can be at some other places, so it’s tastier to me. Maya had some deep fried yam thing that she loved. Ted got the chef’s special rolls, and wasn’t thrilled…it is an assortment of different rolls, and he…
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Happy Anniversary!
So 18 years ago tonight, Ted and I went on our first official “date”. We had pizza once before, but we never counted that as a date, because it was just an after school thing and we didn’t really hit it off too much…. Anyway, 18 years ago, Ted came to my house on Fulton Street in SF, and we went to a party at his friend’s house….I don’t know who the friend was, or if I actually ever met him/her, because another friend, whom we’ll call….Tim….because his name was Tim, came out and told us the party was pretty much over and we should go get a drink. So…
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My American Dilemma….
So Maya has decided that this doll looks like her. She wants her. She is hoping to get her for Christmas. So here’s the dilemma: 1. Doll is $87, plus tax and shipping. 2. She already has 3 American Girl dolls. One of the dolls that she already has is supposed to look like her, too, but this one is NEW, and Maya thinks she looks MORE like her than the other one. She got the first one (named Abby) from a very good friend of mine who lives near NYC, and was overcome by the fun of going to American Girl Place and shopping while she was there. The…
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Interesting? Probably not.
So I tried this blogging thing a couple of years ago, for one day, then forgot that I had ever done it. I made one post. It was August of 2002. Couldn’t think of anything else to say until now. Now all of my friends are blogging, and like the lemming I am, I had to jump on the bandwagon. Anyway, here’s the text of my first post, from when I first heard about blogging, in 2002: I’m mostly thinking about the day camp where my daughter goes right now…they make me mad, because they give the kids crap to eat all day. I mean, Popsicles and pop tarts and…
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Lafayette Circle Cafe
This last Sunday, Ted said he would like to go to lunch, and he would like to go somewhere that we had never tried before. Maybe it’s all part of his 2005 New Year’s Resolution to eat new things…that’s a good resolution, and so much easier to keep than flossing regularly (sorry Dr. Ochikubo!). So he threw down the gauntlet and said we would go to downtown Lafayette, and find a new place to eat. Well, I wasn’t in the mood for Chinese or Mexican food, and we had eaten everywhere else…or had we? We found ourselves walking toward Chow, which is mighty tasty and probably worth it’s own review,…
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Pretty Good Deal in Walnut Creek?
Looking for some tasty food in Walnut Creek at a decent price? Downtown no less? What if I told you it’s actually in Broadway Plaza? Would you keel over? Try Stanford’s Restaurant & Bar. Here’s the caveat…you have to go during Happy Hour, which is from 3-6pm. You also have to eat in the bar (but they do allow kids in the bar area). Where else are you going to get Crab & Seafood Cakes for $3.95, or Penne Pasta & Roma Tomatoes for $2.95? None of the items are big enough for a whole meal, but you could have BBQ Chicken Quesadillas ($2.95) and a Southwest Chopped Salad ($1.95),…