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Okay, the new appliances all work! Yes, a couple of minor hiccups, but all is now back to normal. So, that is much appreciated.

I am really loving my Droid X; I keep finding all of these great functions and apps and general cool stuff.

And Barnes&Noble released the update to the nook Color today that turns it into a pretty darn functional Android tablet (email, Adobe flash, an app store, Angry Birds!), yay!!! This will go down as the best thing my husband ever bought for me.

So, along that note, I'm looking at subscribing to some magazines and trying to decide between National Geographic and National Geographic Traveler. Both have things that I love, but now that I think on it a bit I wonder if NGT is too topic specific. Anyway, I am having fun exploring the new stuff!

Easter, in general, was good. I think this is really my favorite holiday in terms of food. My mother makes traditional Slavic foods like homemade bread (pascha), nutroll (potica), cheese (hrudka) and stuffed cabbage (halupki), which is all SO YUMMMM!. And there is loads of chocolate.

All in all, a WIN/WIN couple of days!

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Every year, for St. Patrick's Day, my mother makes corned beef and cabbage (and carrots, potatoes, etc.), but this year she is in California, helping my aunt move house.

So, I have been nominated by my family to pinch hit. I mean, it's kind of nice that they trust my cooking ability to take this on. I suppose if I can handle Thanksgiving dinner, I can manage this. Except, no one really asked, they just assumed.

Anyway. I am serving it tonight because there was no way I'd have managed it on Thursday after having been at work all day. So, I'm off to make soda bread and figure out what I am doing with all of this meat.

And clean the house, because -- BIG NEWS -- we are meeting my sister's new boyfriend. This one seems like a winner in that he's 1) gainfully employed and 2) has hung around for several months now. I am hoping he's the one because she really deserves some happiness.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope 2011 is everything you want it to be!

Have made the holiday pilgrimage to the Church of Wegmans. I went in for one thing, really, and also to "window shop". I walked out with $140 worth of "groceries" (some legitimate food items, some sweets, some odds and ends). This also include lunch: turkey and provolone on a pretzel bread baguette. OMFG!

Now, to finally make the Christmas cookies!

Happy New Year!

A little over four years ago, foldingstar and his boyfriend were visiting me and since they would not be here for Thanksgiving, I decided to make a "traditional" American Thanksgiving dinner for them. We had the usual dishes (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and veg), including what, for us, has become a holiday staple. We call it green jello, but it's really lime-flavored and has sour cream and bits of pineapple in it.

Honestly, it tastes much better than it sounds.

But, the point is that we had to explain to them how this dish was NOT traditional at all, but had become a traditional part of OUR our holiday menu (short story: my mother first made it back in the '70s when jello molds were the height of suburban cuisine -- everyone liked it and came to expect it and there you have it).

So, of course, we had it yesterday and I just had a little spoonful and it got me wondering: do you have any unique family dishes at your holiday table that might baffle other people?

In other news, Thanksgiving has been cleaned up and put away and the Christmas tree is up (but undecorated).

I'm prepping the ribs for the slow cooker, getting ready to make a scrumptious fake potato salad (made with cauliflower), the weather is GORGEOUS (mid 80s, no humidity), and I'm playing the Beach Boys at full volume from my iTunes.

Perfect summer day!

Hope your day is great too!

If you celebrate, hope you have a lovely day!


My husband is still sleeping, but my son is up and I gave him his Valentine's gift which is the newest book in the Percy Jackson series (a companion book along the lines of Beedle the Bard). He's actually muted the television and is reading. Bless!

I am at work today and it is so FUCKING quiet!!

I have:

- done some work (all 30 minutes of it)
- received THREE emails, the last of which was almost 5 hours ago
- finished reading a book (What Was Lost -- ooh! only the second day of the year and I've already read a book!)
- paid bills
- ignored my cluttered desk

We had a quiet New Year's Eve hanging out with family and playing board games. Yesterday we went to dinner at my cousin's (not the same one as Christmas or the one who was ill) where too much food was consumed. I am going to be rigid about food intake over the next two weeks!

Anyway, one of of my favorite things about New Year's Day is The List that always appears in the Washington Post. It's the List of What's In and What's Out for 2009.

I'm re-posting the things that some of you may find interesting:

OUT	IN
Claymates	Twihards
LOLcats	Garfield Minus Garfield
Twittering	Slow blogging
Fuji apples	Honeycrisp apples
Goth	Steampunk
Keith Olbermann & Miss Precious Perfect	Rachel Maddow & Susan Mikula
Emphasizing.Things.With. Periods.	REVENGE OF CAPSLOCK

NORAD is already tracking Santa!



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