18 Jan
Next up on the book list:
I’m Just Here for the Food by Alton Brown. It’s a cookbook, sort of. It’s really a chemistry/food theory book with some recipes thrown in. Except a lot more interesting than that sounds.
In other news, The Balled of Fat Sam and Zoe is coming to a close. Next month Damon, Fat Sam and I are flying to Florida. Sammy will take up residence with my heroic parents until Zoe goes off to college. And Sam is flying in the cabin with us. God help us all.
8 Jan
I’ve just finished reading Female Chauvanist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy.
It was a good one for me to read, as I’ve always been of two minds about things like porn and strippers and, more subtle, the ways any woman uses sex for power. Which is something I have not been above at times. There’s so much more to say, but it’s my bedtime.
3 Jan
I’m going to do my best to keep up with all the books I read in 2007. I find that I don’t log them here because I feel like I need to compose a good entry about the book, and I don’t always have time. And then I forget. So I’m going to free myself from the obligation to note anything other than title and author.
So the first book I finished this year was Cesar’s Way by Cesar Milan. I didn’t know he came to this country as an illegal immigrant. He spoke not one word of English and lived on the street for a while. Considering how well he’s done, I’d say we’re lucky to have him. We don’t have a dog, but I’m mesmerized by Cesar and watch his Nat Geo show all the time.
1 Jan
I am TIRED y’all.
But that’s okay, because life goes more or less back to normal tomorrow. And one of my resolutions (which I’m not terribly formal about) is to do better with getting enough sleep on a reasonable schedule. I’ve come home too many nights between 7 and 8, already almost asleep on my feet. I know sometimes work is going to twist my tail hard enough that I will leave staggering, but in general I know I can do better. I have actually been known to sleep all night on top of the bed in my work clothes, stockings and bra included. So know we all know that I can do better.
We started the day off the lucky way, with black-eyed peas and collard greens courtesy of our friends’ James and Charles’ open house. We also started the day with sangria, frittata, creme brulee French toast, vegetarian chili and brown rice, shrimp cocktail, spice cake and pound cake. I also had a glass of water.
And if all that food wasn’t enough (it wasn’t), tomorrow we can go to Zabar’s because my awesome dad gave us a gorgeous $300 gift certificate for Christmas. People, do you know how many pounds of Spanish olives and marinated stem-on artichokes I can buy with that? I’m going to eat until I fall down.
Originally we’d hoped that we’d get a baby in 2007, now that seems wholely unrealistic. Now I’m trying to approach it as a way to mindfully enjoy our last unencumbered year. We’re creeping closer to having our prep covered. All our non-immigration paperwork is back except for one document still at the Chinese Embassy in DC. We need three more “family and friends” photos and a few sets of passport photos to include, but we should be able to wrap that up this week. My hope is to be sending our dossier off to our agency in about a week. Then all we’ll have left to do (at least for about a year) is send good juju to immigration to try to get them to move our paperwork along.
And now I will move myself along to wash up for bedtime, which will be rigorously enforced.
31 Dec
Dec 1, 2006
9 out of 11: in which I say that my brother-in-law and his girlfriend are gone, but now my father is visiting. As my typing is distracting him, the entry is short.
Nov 5, 2006
It’s Another Bits and Pieces Post!: in which I discuss pasta sauce, soup and pearl onions.
October 1, 2006
Friends Abroad: in which I recount my last-minute work trip to Turks and Caicos.
September 1, 2006
A Meme from Geobabe1: in which I list the first three random Wikipedia entries I find.
August 4, 2006
It Can’t Just Be Me: in which I express shock and dismay about the middle-seat woman next to me on the plane who didn’t move over, even though the aisle seat was empty.
July 1, 2006
No Headline: in which I recount mine and Damon’s bus trip to DC to visit our friends Geoff and Lisa.
June 3, 2006
No Headline: in which I learn that I primarily speak General American English.
May 6, 2006
Where to Even Begin: in which I relive my emergency wisdom teeth extraction.
April 1, 2006
Bah Humbug (and etc): in which I complain about April Fool’s Day, talk about Lost, and note that this is the first day of a two-week sugar fast for me and Damon.
March 1, 2006
No Headline: in which I talk about fitting in at work, one way or the other.
Feb 3, 2006
Dedication: in which I give theme songs to some family and friends.
Jan 1, 2006
Random: in which I am delighted to discover that there are whole organized communities of people who blog pretending to be famous people.
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