· Do you ever used jarred alfredo? I don’t, because I had only tried the Classico varieties, which I don’t feel taste anything like alfredo. The other day, though, I had a craving and didn’t want to go to a restaurant and didn’t feel like making it myself. I was wandering down the aisles at the grocery store and came across Mario Batali’s sauce and thought I’d try it. Contains real cream! Seriously, folks, this was restaurant caliber stuff. I sautéed mushrooms onions and spinach and cooked up some roasted veggie and chicken sausages, mixed the whole thing together with fettuccine … Good stuff. I had some for lunch today and the rest of it is my lunch for tomorrow. I will be sad to see it go, but glad to see it go down my gullet.
· Our first two days of Advent calendaring have been a success. Day one was donate to a needy child, and we adopted a three year old girl from the foster tree my company put up. She wanted play food, so we got a couple of those Melissa and Doug play sets, and couple shirts and a pair of pants. I’m thinking of trying to find a reasonably priced pair of tennis shoes too before I bring it all in, and one of those Seek and Find books. S still doesn’t exactly understand (I gave him a long explanation about how she doesn’t have mommy and daddy to help santa with his shopping but I think it was all lost on him; he’s a very idealistic four year old) but I felt happy having done it.
· Day two we watched Christmas movies: The Santa Clause and Home Alone. They’re still too young to really appreciate live action Christmas movies, but it was nostalgic for me to watch. The Santa Clause was my brother’s favorite movie when he was three to five, and we watched it several times a week year round. I saw Home Alone ELEVEN times in the theater when it came out. Today is “read a Christmas book” so S has asked me to stop by the library to get a NEW Christmas book to read. Roger that, buckaroo!
· I have found a new feed reader for my iPad, and I’m in love. I have a hard time commenting on blogs because it’s near impossible on my phone and it’s still a little annoying from Feedly. Plus, once you read things on Feedly it disappears and if you can’t remember who said something it’s pretty hard to locate that blog again to comment later! Yesterday I downloaded an app called Mr. Reader (and it has a top hat and moustache!) and I really like it. I can comment directly from my feed instead of opening up in the browser, and I can add blogs too! Watch out world, I may stop lurking again!
· I’m torn between loving the weather these days and hating that it’s nearly 80 degrees in December. We’re trying to savor it, and had the splash pool filled up again this weekend. But I want fires in the fireplace and chilly mornings with my coffee! Where is winter?
· I got a haircut. Hurray!
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6 comments:
I'd like to know what as many of the advent calendar things are as possible. It is such an interesting idea to me.
L got 24 books from my mom as an advent calendar of sorts. We're going to have to double up tonight's and tomorrow night's though, because we just got home from the airport and L had to go straight to bed and I don't know where day 3 is!
We have a few read a Christmas movie or read a Christmas book, and we have tickets to see Rockapella later this month so that ay "go to a Christmas concert". Drink hot chocolate, build a gingerbread house, drive around and look at Christmas lights (always Christmas Eve). They are letting paper lanterns go down the river on the 8th so I listed tht. There's also making cookies, having a holiday treat, making Dipped marshmallows, unwrap something special (I picked up light sabers after Halloween and I'll wrap them up for that day). There are some duplicates. Oh! Also one day I have them calling all their grandparents.
Cool! I love Rockapella!
I love your haircut!
We occasionally buy the Classico sauce just as something different from the (semi-homemade) marinara sauce we usually have on pasta. I'll have to try the Mario Batali.
I make my own alfredo because it's SO DELICIOUS. The only thing I don't like about it is I know exactly how disgustingly bad it is for you since I'm the one who dumped in all of the fattening things. Perhaps I should move on to the jarred kind so I can remain in denial.
I use G-Whizz, which technically does twitter and gmail and facebook and all of your other google stuff in addition to reader, but I only use it for that purpose. I like it okay. It lets you click away from the feed to comment. I might check out the Mr. Reader just for the moustache though :)
You know, I was complaining a few weeks ago that the weather wouldn't make up it's mind - chilly for a day or two then warm enough for shorts again... - "Just pick one!" I ranted. Yeah. I should have been more specific. I'd like the cooler weather back, please. :)
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