This one's for Liz

Mu friend Liz is what you might call a coffee fiend. This woman does not play well with others uncaffienated. She also loves chocolate (who doesn't?)

In her honour, I present to you -- CHOCOLATE JOLT (no, not the pop)

This seems to be the quick antidote to food coma if you like chocolate and coffee (and the associated massive influxes of sugar and caffeine). I wouldn't recommend taking this before you go to bed.

Mmmm... new bus smell

I never thought that a bus could have new bus smell, but the number 12 on my way home from work tonight had just that. Moreso, the seats were vibrant blue, the pull cord was shiny yellow, and the floor was relatively clean. It was lovely, and smelled like a showroom car. I give it about a day before the new bus smell wears off. I feel privileged to have experienced it.

And on the cat theme...

I'm Widget-sitting for the wekend, and today I (and my laundry) have been having a lovely time at Sally's. I get to play with the cutest kitten in the world, and I get to avoid the laundromat - how wonderful is my day?

Also, Widget seems to have acquired a new skill - impersonating a gopher.

R.I.P. Snoopy

I can top this one...

Snicker. But I can relate to poor Dewey here:



I can beat him, though. A few years ago I hurt my back by sleeping. I swear - I was fine one day, the next day I could hardly walk. Months of drugs and physical therapy later, and I am down to just twinges in my back. But seriously - sleeping broke me!

TV, and S'mores - does life get any better?

Thursday nights are the best! Today Liz and Jen and Sally and I got together to watch last night's Project Runway. We discovered over the past few weeks that it is a lot more fun to heckle the tv in a group than by yourself. From now Thursday night is TV Night at Dena's. Gotta love the Tivo!

Tonight we also got to try my new S'mores maker (thanks Marianne!!!) - it's a blast, and we had quite a good time lighting marshmallows on fire, as demonstrated here by Jen and Liz. My poor hanging light possible got a bit singed, though. Next time I move the table a bit.


And for tv dessert, we watched the season premiere of Dancing with the Stars - yet again a fabulous show to watch in a group and heckle. We can't wait for Skating with Celebrities, which we hope will be an even more hilarious train wreck. 

Books I have read (yesterday)

I read two books yesterday (well, I finished one and read the other entirely).

My Fifteen Minutes by Sarah Faith Alterman

Cute, and nice to have a book about a woman in LA who has no interest in being famous or a movie star (even though there is a movie star in it)


The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon DeFoe

Cute, but shallow and very silly. Took me about an hour to read, maybe a bit less.

I have moved on to Diana Lively is Falling Down, which is promising to be cute, but not too shallow. It's also a slower read than the other two.

New Year's Fun!

What a good New Year's it was this year! New Year's Eve day began with a lovely breakfast at Honey's with Carl, Micaela, Mark, Dawn, and Liz. After that Liz and I went up to Mark and Dawn's to have the first Philadelphia Corner Gasathon, where we watched 17 episodes of the second season of Corner Gas, a Canadian tv sitcom that I have addicted quite a few Philadelphians to. I fell asleep during the curling episode, but I've seen it before, so that's okay. We still have to watch the last episode, as we ran out of time.
After the marathon, Liz and I headed out to Jen and Kim's place to have a grand holiday dinner (yummy turkey and stuffing!), play trivial pursuit, and ring in the new year while sitting in the slightly broken hot tub with glasses of champagne.
It was the perfect New Year's Eve day!