Archive for February, 2006

Back to Good

I‘m afraid to say it. . but I think things are slowly approaching normalcy around here. Mom seems to be out of the woods.. knock on wood, and all that. It’s been a pretty hairy past few weeks, but I’m thinking that perhaps I can breath easy. Man, I really hate to say that. But that is the way it seems, at any rate. My long lost friend has been found. I can remove his …

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Tagged with Fives, I'm it

My friend Carol tagged me with this. Carol doesn’t have a blog.. or a website – – hell, she can barely use email without a whole lot of technical support – – but I love her anyways. See how tolerant I am? Five books I’ve recently read: 1. Forever Odd, Dean Koontz 2. Predator, Patricia Cornwell 3. Blink, Malcom Gladwell 4. The Story of O (this was a re-read… doing.. uh.. research.. ummhmm) 5. Body …

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Flew The Coop

Ever have a friend seemingly just drop off the face of the earth? I mean, you know they are alive (at least… I think…) – but they’re just gone… poof! Like disappearing from your life was exactly what they meant to do – because they left you with absolutely zero traces of where you might find them. I have a friend like that. It’s been about a year since we spoke, and granted – there …

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Baklava in New York… Anyone?

Any NY’rs out there who would be able to give me a referral to the absolute BEST bakalava in the city?? We’re having a wedding cake done by Cupcake Cafe — but Chris, and a few others, are real Baklava fans . . . and after talking him out of having a full blown Baklava cake (not sure how that would be)… we compromised on a nice wedding cake, and a big tray full of …

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Be Mine

This new pinkness is the extent of my celebration of the ‘overly commercialized day of the year when you are supposed to let the ones you love know how much you love them, because doing it the other 364 days a year just isn’t good enough‘ holiday – otherwise known as Valentine’s Day. Oooo.. do I sound jaded? A girl with, perhaps, too few valentine’s in her life? Nah. When everyday is valentine’s day – …

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