You know the new presidents' choice line of healthy food that is packaged all in blue, and the advertisements show blue food. Well, the food is not really blue but the fabulous dish I made for my fabulous friends Connie, Jen, and Chris for supper tonight was! I used to cook. I prefer baking (I also prefer eating baking!), but I can make an okay meal. But somewhere between the chemistry of the garlic, honey, dill, and lemon slices ... my salmon looked like it had mold on it ... not so appetizing. My guests graciously brushed it off (while they gave each other sympathetic glances). This is one example to support the importance of my ability to laugh at myself. Other than the moldy blue salmon it was a wonderful night. There is something so comforting about having good friends fill your home with laughter, it lingers after they leave, and my home feels more alive and warmer! Chris left a little shell-shocked from the girls uncensored girl talk ... but he looked like he was going to be just fine! I need to do this more (not the salmon dish).
Christmas was understandably hard and understandably called for a Sex in the City marathon. Carrie says something so true at the end of one episode and it had been driving me silly trying to remember it. Divine intervention ... I was at my mom's to pick-up my brother's taxes (yes I do his taxes. yes I am a sucker!) and happened to see that SITC was on as my brother flipped at an un-human speed. Of course, he wanted nothing to do with it so I ran (yes I ran ... it has been a long time!) upstairs and caught the very end of the episode ... and it was THAT episode. Divine I tell you, divine. Carrie says (paraphrased ... could not get it down fast enough) "It is hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun!" With a drop-foot I am limited in how fun my shoes can be, but my red ones seem to do the trick. If I told you the whole extent to which those red shoes bring me happiness you might just think I had too much wine ... so we will just say when I see them peaking out from my dress pants my heart skips a little red beat!
I saw three geese flying in perfect unity ... at one perfect moment three became one. The trinity geese!
There were pristinely perfect snowflakes landing on my windshield today! Is it really true that there are no two snowflakes alike ... or is this like Santa, the Easter bunny, and my black fish ... and I was sick the day the know-it-all kid revealed the truth in class?
Benefit of being awake in the middle of the night number one ... I can blog forever (my benefit perhaps more than yours!). Benefit number two ... ummm yeah still working on that one ; )
Do you like how I decorated Chris's glass with my wine-glass-buddies? Yes, it was a little hard for him to drink it. Poor guy may never visit again!
2 comments:
I am so sad that I missed your dinner--even the blue salmon--that sounds like a new dr. seuss book! Blue Salmon and Wine! Stay tuned--maybed page one will make an appearance on TheGoodQueen! I did have a great evening out with my friend, and enjoyed meeting a wack of new and interesting people.
I too was watching the snowflakes on my windshield and wondering if they REALLY were all different! Seems impossible, doesn't it? Loved Chris's glass! Before I read, I was scrutinizing it closely trying to see it better and was thinking "WHERE do I get glasses like that??!!?"
Please do host another pah-tay, because I'd love to be there! Maybe we could order in?
OMG! I have a typo in my previous comment! I am appalled that I did not edit before I published! I apologize to any fanatics such as myself who may find this disturbing! Sorry for marring your site with my imperfection dear H! Lol. (Or, perhaps a good lesson that imperfection is damn well ok! Let it go sister!) I love all that I learn doing this H.! I'm having such fun. Also, go check out TheGQ, as my cousin seems to have inherited some of my 'Huh?' genes! You'll laugh out loud. Ciao Bella.
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