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May. 3rd, 2007 02:17 amHad friends over for dinner the other night. Good. I assembled home-baked pizza from store-bought dough. This was something my mother would make, and that always gave a special-event impression that far out-weighed the actual effort involved. I'd say it worked its magic for us too :-)
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Cleaned the kitchen at E Ch more. Installed the screw-in door-stopper I'd donated two months ago.
I BANNED the trays that didn't stack nicely with others. Serving platters fear my sheer raw organizing power!
My dad called while I was still in the kitchen, to brag about the 1000 people who showed up to their "Upper" Pioneer Valley Yom HaAtzmaut event. He says, "Why don't you come home and organize OUR kitchen?"
"But father dear, I *have*... and you have been insufficiently appreciative of it. -- Within two weeks, the pantry is all out of order again!"
He contends that he thinks I do a great job, and blames only my mother for ignoring it. This is probably true :-)
Sadly, though, I am a true daughter of them both. Creative collector AND anti-possessionist. I am an organizer who is disinclined to clean up.
Anyway, I think this whole E Ch kitchen thing will work out, because Lorraine once went over the whole thing in days of yore, and the labels are still there. She's a professional organizer and her system does seem pretty complete to me (except for the foodstuffs). We've even stayed *pretty close* to matching it... with the majority of the items! On the other hand, it doesn't take many strays to make a big jumble.
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After services last Friday, for shabbat dinner, I went on a Chocolate Excursion to this "new chocolate place" that has opened up in those Mass Ave shops where you have to walk down below the street level to get to them. I had a Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate and ordered a mango truffle. They also gave us free samples of a Chai Tea truffle that was really tasty.
After dessert, we had dinner at the breakfast place next door (Zoe's? used to be Johnny's). :-)
We had to have the chocolate first, because that place understandably closes earlier. In fact, the guy unlocked the place for me. They were very gracious about service the 4 of us, and Adene + the owner chatted about chocolate museums they'd been to. He grew up in Ghana, I think; where they grow a lot of chocolate.
There were two great displays of narrow chocolate bars, that in another context I would have assumed were some kind of art-supply pastels display. Each one was understatedly marked with a different color. They looked good, too, but I didn't try any.
The peanut butter hot cocoa was tasty, although not as thick or as peanut-buttery as I'd hoped. The next morning, chilled from the fridge, it was even better!
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My brother will be graduating college this month. And I've just finished re-reading A Wrinkle In Time, that I'm borrowing from Gilly. I hope he enjoys his commencement. I'll be heading out to be there for that, of course.
This weekend is the Walk For Hunger, and I'm going to participate for the first time.
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Cleaned the kitchen at E Ch more. Installed the screw-in door-stopper I'd donated two months ago.
I BANNED the trays that didn't stack nicely with others. Serving platters fear my sheer raw organizing power!
My dad called while I was still in the kitchen, to brag about the 1000 people who showed up to their "Upper" Pioneer Valley Yom HaAtzmaut event. He says, "Why don't you come home and organize OUR kitchen?"
"But father dear, I *have*... and you have been insufficiently appreciative of it. -- Within two weeks, the pantry is all out of order again!"
He contends that he thinks I do a great job, and blames only my mother for ignoring it. This is probably true :-)
Sadly, though, I am a true daughter of them both. Creative collector AND anti-possessionist. I am an organizer who is disinclined to clean up.
Anyway, I think this whole E Ch kitchen thing will work out, because Lorraine once went over the whole thing in days of yore, and the labels are still there. She's a professional organizer and her system does seem pretty complete to me (except for the foodstuffs). We've even stayed *pretty close* to matching it... with the majority of the items! On the other hand, it doesn't take many strays to make a big jumble.
--
After services last Friday, for shabbat dinner, I went on a Chocolate Excursion to this "new chocolate place" that has opened up in those Mass Ave shops where you have to walk down below the street level to get to them. I had a Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate and ordered a mango truffle. They also gave us free samples of a Chai Tea truffle that was really tasty.
After dessert, we had dinner at the breakfast place next door (Zoe's? used to be Johnny's). :-)
We had to have the chocolate first, because that place understandably closes earlier. In fact, the guy unlocked the place for me. They were very gracious about service the 4 of us, and Adene + the owner chatted about chocolate museums they'd been to. He grew up in Ghana, I think; where they grow a lot of chocolate.
There were two great displays of narrow chocolate bars, that in another context I would have assumed were some kind of art-supply pastels display. Each one was understatedly marked with a different color. They looked good, too, but I didn't try any.
The peanut butter hot cocoa was tasty, although not as thick or as peanut-buttery as I'd hoped. The next morning, chilled from the fridge, it was even better!
---
My brother will be graduating college this month. And I've just finished re-reading A Wrinkle In Time, that I'm borrowing from Gilly. I hope he enjoys his commencement. I'll be heading out to be there for that, of course.
This weekend is the Walk For Hunger, and I'm going to participate for the first time.
