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Friday, January 29, 2010
Look at this kid! Is there anything better than a birthday sundae? Apprently not.
I don't enjoy remembering her entry into this world and the scare with her and her mom, but I like to think about the day she went home looking like an alien in a car seat.
One of the things I was looking forward to doing in Vegas was seeing my friend Peggy and her husband Walt. They took Aaron, Aprille and I to a restaurant called Hash House A Go Go. It is described as "Farm food with a twist". It was crazy. We couldn't believe the amazing combinations, huge portions and elaborate presentation. I had the best time!
I was pretty excited about coming here because I was meeting some nearby friends I met through blogging for dinner. Fourth Breakfast, Lady M, Karen (who we are trying to talk into starting a blog) and Auntie FaFa.
There are many reasons I love blogging but a big one is the friends I make. Some I have never met in person... HeyShanny and Sprittibee, and some I get to see occasionally like azure68. Either way blogging helps me stay in touch.
It's so cool to have people to meet up with when you are traveling solo.
Lady M gave me this little phone charm softie. He's a wasabi root. He is sharing my hotel room with me now. Heee.
Today was Shruti's baby shower and I was a co-host. I was in charge of decorations. The theme was autumn with the colors, orange, pink, lime green and brown.
I made sure there were lots of pumpkins and leaves.
I especially like the brown glitter pumpkins I found.
There was lots of cake eating and games like "guess the melted chocolate bar in the diaper"- type games. And judging by the gifts, Shruti's baby will be the best dressed little girl in town.
I almost forgot to report back on the Friendship Bread. I really didn't know what to expect, but we baked it and it was DELICIOUS! Turns out it is a sweet bread... kind of like a coffee cake.
I took the starters to work to give out and everyone was suspicous until they tasted the bread. Joel and Shruti each got one. I had one for Tina or Aprille but another coworker tasted the bread and got it before they did.
That's okay, because contrary to what I previously stated... I kept one bag of starter for myself. So in ten days I will have more to give Tina and Aprille. It's that good. Soon we will all have gurgling bubbling bags slowly taking over our kitchens.
When I was in high school, someone gave me a zip lock baggie of oozing friendship bread starter. The idea is you let the goo age for 10 days, add ingredients and then you bake it into a loaf of bread. The friendship part comes in when you separate a portion of that aged starter into other bags and give it to friends to make their own bread. And so on. And so forth.
I was obsessed with it. I kept making it. And it kept growing more. Soon we ran out of family members to give the bubbling bags of starter to, but I couldn't bring myself to throw them out. Throw out friendship?! There were gurgling, burping zip lock bags all over our kitchen and my mom finally had to throw them out bringing an end to my manaical bread production streak.
When I came home last week, this was on our kitchen counter. Ack! A coworker bequeathed Aaron with a gooey bag of friendship bread starter. We have begun the process of Day 1 - mush bag, Day 2 - mush bag, Day 3 - mush bag... etc.
This time I am giving away all the starter. I cannot allow our house to become a friendship bread breeding ground.
Tina, Shruti, Aprille and Joel. Prepare yourselves. In a few days you've got some friendship coming your way.
I watched the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown today with Tina and Lauren (who is quite the flag waver). Even my friend Tom showed up with his kids in the chilly afternoon. We were there to see this...
This evening we had a Holiday
Cookies and Cocktails party. I pulled fresh baked chocolate chip, white
chocolate chip and macadamia nut, peanut butter kiss and molasses
cookies out of the oven all night.
I was pretty happy to wear my
new apron during the party. Party pictures are on My
Gallery.
