April 2007

Daily Dose of Cupcakes

1 Comment / Cupcake Toppers, Daily Dose /

cross.jpgEaster cupcake toppers are difficult. They are difficult because there are too many choices. There are mini eggs and bunnies in plastic, wood (paint your own!) or flocked. There are chicks. There are jelly beans and tiny Easter themed chocolates. So many to choose from, I almost boycotted the Easter theme entirely. Just grab some peeps and plop them onto your cupcakes. Leave off the icing though, a peep on a cupcake is all you need – especially when the peep starts to get a little dry and crunchy on the outside. That’s the perfect Easter cupcake. Unless you’re Nuthinfancy then it’s all about the resurrection. Nail crosses (remove the cord) are the perfect Easter cupcake topper!

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101 Things Update

2 Comments / 101 Things, Daily Dose /

I think this is the latest I’ve ever been with the 101 things update. That doesn’t mean I’m losing interest, it means my life is crazy!

* A coffee with Leona, finally!
* More money saved, surprisingly!!
* A college visit in the can!
* Didn’t I read a classic? I thought I did but if I did, I am not seeing it on my list. Weird. Almost finished with another audio book but it’s very boring so it’s taking a very long time to get through.
*I have had NO time to fiddle with blogrolls or bookmarks/spurls. I really have to do a better job with that in April.

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I love New York

Family Funk, Travel Log, Work /

Some quick thoughts about our trip to “the city” (I still call it that, at least in my head. Years of living in Jersey will do that to you, I guess.)

1. Gas should not be cheaper in NYC than it is in Florida.

2. Pastis has great breakfast.

3. This was our first trip since 9/11 and it was much more difficult to get our bearings without the Twin Towers. I didn’t expect that.

4. I love corner delis where you can get two egg & cheese sandwiches on a hero with two cups of coffee for $5.

5. S’mac makes excellent macaroni & cheese. I had the goat cheese, spinach and olive. TW had the four cheese. Awesome.

6. The Point Knitting Cafe folks weren’t snobby at all!

7. The Gansevoort has great robes and an interesting mini bar (mile high club sex kit!). They also had nice toiletries and decent sheets. The room, however, was cold even before the weather turned cold. The video screen in the elevator – crazy weird. I finally decided it is some sort of tribue to Alex Grey and then I was ok with it. Sort of.

8. 36 hours in The City is not enough time, particularly when 5 hours of that is spent in an office!

I love New York

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Survivor

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction /

Survivor by Tabitha King, not Survivor with silly Jeff Probst. Though actually, now that I think about it, I could write a lot more about Survivor the TV show than Survivor the book.

It’s not that the book was bad, it wasn’t. But I had a good bit of deja vu while reading it. It has been a good 15 years, maybe more, since I read a novel by Tabitha King but Kissy felt an awful lot like Deanie to me. Other than that weird character deja vu – I liked it well enough. I even found myself liking Junior, what a surprise that was to me.

I’ve got another Tabitha King novel waiting. I wonder whether I’ll feel that deja vu.

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Airports….

Family Funk, Travel Log /

Here are some little tidbits for you….

In Gainesville, they dump those really hazardous bottles of liquids into the water fountain right next to wear you go through security. Do not drink out of the water fountains just in case there were biohazards in those dangerous bottles.

Charlotte has become a smoke-free airport sometime between August of 2006 and today. Who knew?

The B terminal does not have enough seating down at the end where 14, 15, 16 are. They do have electric outlets for laptop charging and wifi.

Newark air traffic controllers are annoying – they have caused my flight to be delayed and I don’t like it.

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Magic Study

1 Comment / 2007, Books in Bed, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

Sassymonkey said Magic Study was less evil than Poison Study, (evil = caused to stay up late into the night to finish), I disagree. I found Magic Study got off to a much quicker, a quick start and I really wanted to do nothing except keep reading! I took a break to help a friend with her blog template and in the back of my head was “darn, now I’m not going to finish this tonight”. Ha, I should have known I’d just keep reading.

I thought for a minute the author was going to make everything neat and tidy, I’m so glad she didn’t. I liked the interaction between Yalena and Lief and Yalena and her mother. Those had to be tough relationships for the author to create and maintain.

I’m looking forward to Fire Study.

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