Reese's. Peanut Butter. Cups.

Food of the Gods.
Why share with strange children?
Let them eat Snickers & KitKats.

Yoo-hoo! I’m back!

I took a quick look at a few blogs last night and determined that the Zombie baby arrived. Hooray! The Survey blankie arrived – hooray! The birthday bash is taking/took place – yay! Coco’s boobs are rebelling – uh, huh?

We had a great vacation! In brief…

The King Tut exhibit is spectacular! I love the Amarna art style and I was blown away by some of the figures on display. I almost blew $500 myself on a perfect, gilded, winged Isis (even Tom was sold) but managed to restrain myself in time. Reality & all that. The Tut exhibit was fairly crowded, and took about 2 hours to see properly. The Field Museum’s regular Ancient Egypt artifacts are also pretty darn nice. And their Tibet stuff. It's a nice museum.

We had a lovely visit with relatives in Indiana & Wisconsin. Originally, we were going to drive up the coast of Lake Michigan to Milwaukee and then head back. Instead we wound up spending a couple of days in Lake Geneva. While there I suddenly realized that I was almost in Weltek territory. Isn’t that near you, Kim? I felt cosmically close or something. In fact, at dinner on Wednesday I had this weird feeling that you were in the restaurant too! Houlihan’s? I found 2 women who might be you and almost walked up to them (both at full tables) to say “Hello, are you Weltek?” But then one table started to sing Happy Birthday to someone so I didn’t go to either table. I need to get your phone number or something so if I accidently wind up close by I can at least give you a call to see if you're available!

Geneva Lake was a cute little town and the weather Wednesday was perfect so we took the 2-hour boat tour past all the mansions. Supposedly, Geneva Lake is Newport West - and there were some darn nice houses on the lake!

Also at this time I would like to apologize to the people of Wisconsin for the bit of buttery buggery on the balcony of the Mill Creek Inn. I blame the Bailey’s.

And now I’m off to read bloggy things!

King Tut

Yay! Tom and I got tickets to see the King Tut exhibit in Chicago on Monday, so we are driving down tomorrow. I missed this the last time it was close and I am very excited to see it! Tom has the week off and we have family in Indiana - so count me out for a while. I'm always happy to get away with Tom!

*walks like an Egyptian*

Coq au Vin without the nasty mushrooms

is every bit as good. Also, it's a great way to use up bits and dregs of wine, so it's very thrifty.

And you may have noticed - I lost my profile pic and an earlier multipost when I went head-to-head with Blogger earlier today. Blogger won.

Crackers & Cheese

This is my new preferred breakfast. Eight 1 & 1/4 inch squares of Premium Multi-Grain crackers, one slice of Kraft individually wrapped American Cheese, folded twice to make four squares for four little sandwiches. Coffee. Simple perfection I tellya, and no dirty dishes!

Of course, I could have had cake. Tom and I had leftover cake for breakfast yesterday. He had cake for breakfast again today but I went for my crackers & cheese perfection. Not that I have given up on the cake - oh no! Not me. What could be a better lunch than leftover Boston Dessert Cake?

No Time To Write

I am busy moving furniture, and supervising Tom and the kids as they move furniture up and down from the basement.

We accidently invited 10 people to a sit down dinner on Tuesday, so we need to seat 12. My dining room table, which seats 12 very nicely got moved to the basement a few years ago when we converted our dining room into a hugely needed home business office.

That table is too long for the kitchen & who wants to eat in the kitchen anyways. Plus I like to spread out when I cook and not stay all contained. In the family room there is not enought room to open it out unless we take just about everything else out. Such a pain! Mom's table is HUGE!

So we have been auditioning table & furniture placements all afternoon.(Don't laugh - I have 6 kitchen or dining tables of various sizes in my basement. They have all auditioned.) Looks like we can eat in the family room using two other smaller tables places together just so and still not feel like we are pretend sardines, or have to take the rest of the furniture out of the room. Downside? We will be eating in a room that containes a 37" TV. Upside? If the party gets boring I can always put on Dancing With The Stars!

Olde Tyme Photos

I told you they were likely to be B&W! The color pics were mostly slides, most of which I have never scanned in. These should be enough to give you a chuckle though.

Your standard baby pic. My hair looks so dark! When I post later pics you will see how much it bleached out in the summer sun.

Notice the sensible panties. Evidently, they kept me caged in those days.

This must be backstage at one of my first ice shows. I think I was supposed to be a snowflake or ice fairy or something. I wish there was a photo of me in my minuet costume - but I guess mom was too busy being a backstage organizer to take photos every year. Chubby little thing, aren't I?