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  • Weekend into the New Year


    * Saturday morning drive
    * Tanger Outlet
    * Potluck and Countdown with noise makers, party poppers, and bottles of bubbly
    * Hand Made Dumplings two ways: Fried and Boiled.  Rice cake dumpling soup garnished with egg slices, scallions, dried nori, and ground pepper.  "Look at that presentation!" ...makes me smile to have it noticed.  Barbecued marinated beef on bone.  Yummy traditional new year's dinner thanks to m. 
    * nice start to 2006

  • I'm finally leaving the office.  It's late, I'm not done with my work , and for the first time in my life I have bags under my eyes (dark circles).  Still I'm glad to be at this place, I've carved out a niche for me and I feel like I am wanted and belong.  I haven't felt this way about my job for a couple years now.  Plus i had a nice visitor today. 

  • What an EXCITING game!  Nate was intense!  At 5-9 he's tiny next to the other players.   


    Jefferson, Nate, Carter and Kidd.   
         




    NBA games are fun!   ;)


  • I must have been good this year cos Santa has spoiled me.



    Compliments of the chef: Caviar crudite bites
    Starter: Choice of homemade breads
    Wine: Riesling
    Appetizer: Lobster with squash Gnocchi sauted black trumpets, sage oil and Nine Herb Ravioli with roasted artichoke, porcini, parmesan emulsion
    Entree: Duo of Dry-Aged Beef: braised short ribs in red wine, seared rib eye with chanterelles and Trio of Veal: roasted tenderloin, braised cheeks
    Dessert: Chocolate fondant, chocolate pot de creme, chocolate ice cream and Hot Chocolate upside-down souffle, pistachio and ice cream, chocolate-mocha tart, hazelnut praline cinnamon cappuccino
    Compliments of Daniel: petits fours, homemade marshmellows and madelines 



    Appetizer: Lobster Ravioli 
    Wine: Reserved Graff Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese
    Sides: Roasted Garlic Parmesean Potato, Rice Pilaf
    Entree: Carre d'Agneau Persille - Garlic Crusted French Rack of Lamb - aka my favorite dish
    yummy sooo good   seared and medium   Compliments to chef shim!
    Dessert: Strawberry icecream 



    Juicy Bling and Couture and chocolates some with blueberry sugar centers


     

  • starving...   drool...

  • keeps beating me to the punch.  congrats again!

  • early christmas present - Goodies for me!!   :)

    I watched Gwen on tour and my favorite hiphop artist opened for her.  Both were sooo good on stage.  


    ...the princess Ciara!  She's so talented at singing and dances better than her backup dancers! 





    Gwen still edgy and strong as a solo artist!




     


    These lyrics are not totally edifying but I just luuuv her vocals and beat.









    My Goodies, My Goodies, My Goodies
    Not my goodies!

    You may look at me and think that I'm
    Just a young girl
    But I'm not just a young girl.
    Baby this is what I'm lookin' for:
    Sexy, independent, gotta spend it type that's gettin' his dough
    I'm not bein too dramatic that's the way I gotta have it.

    I bet you want the goodies.
    Bet you thought about it.
    Got you all hot and bothered.
    Mad cause I talk around it.
    Lookin for the goodies
    Keep on lookin' cuz they stay in the jar
    Oh-oh Oh-oh Oh-oh Oh-oh

    Just because you drive a Benz
    I'm not goin home with you.
    You won't get no nookie or the cookies
    I'm no rookie.
    If you ain't
    Sexy, independent
    I ain't wit' it so you already know.
    I'm not bein too dramatic that's the way I gotta have it
    You may talk slick
    Tryna hit
    But I'm not dumb
    I'm not bein too dramatic it's just how I gotta have it
    [Chorus]

    So damn hot but so young.
    Still got milk on ya tongue
    Slow down lil one
    And you ain't got it all
    Hey shawty
    You think you bad but you ain't bad
    I'll show you what bad is.
    Bad is when you capable of beatin' the baddest.
    I been workin' at it ever since i came to this planet
    And I ain't quite there yet but I'm gettin' better at it.
    Matter of fact,
    Lemme tell it to you one mo' again
    All I got to do is tell a girl who I am (Petey!)
    Ain't naa chick in here dat I can't have
    Bada boom bada bam ba bam!

    You're insinuating that I'm hot
    But these goodies boy are not
    Just for any of the many men that's tryna get on top.
    No you can't call me later
    And I don't want your number.
    I'm not changin' stories
    Just respect the play I'm callin'.

    [Chorus (2X)]  Uh...Yeah...Uh...Yeah Uh Uh Uh


  • I baked my favorite White Chocolate Macadamian Cranberry Cookies, substituting cranberries for cherries in a paula dean recipe.



     

  • Well if I do declare, I am in love!  I have never felt transported into another world as I did tonight.  You could not call this a performance because it was not the mere outcome of practice and talent.  This was someone's beautiful vision coming to life.  I can now be among those to claim that their soul was so moved by music. Yes, my first time watching Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme was luckily by The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center and in orchestra seats too.  The orchestra, set, lighting, opera singers, chorus, architecture and interior of the Met individually took my breath away.  It took one cold winter's night and five years of living in nyc to finally experience it but it was worth the wait.   




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