LOL. Remember how I hoped that Baby B would sleep well during my vacation so that I could get some reading done? Yeah. That didn’t really happen at all. Instead, she cried for much of the time when she should have been asleep, and during them time she was asleep, she insisted on being held. […]
Month: March 2019
Movie – Molly’s Game
Back when I was in college, that’s when I remember poker becoming a “thing” – the kind of thing where they broadcast tournaments on television, and it seemed like everyone was learning or re-learning how to play. I was always a very very middling sort of player – I knew enough so that I was […]
Personal – Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
By the time you read this, I’ll be on vacation. Correction – I’ll be winging my way back after being on vacation. If I’ve done things correctly, you won’t have missed me at all. As previously noted, the Boy, and all three girls and I have spent the previous two weeks in Japan. It’s the […]
TV – Russian Doll (Netflix)
One of my favorite movies of all time is Groundhog day. I think the idea that someone who is not doing well in life has a chance to re-live the same day – that one day can make a difference – and change everything for the better? It’s really appealing. Not so appealing is the […]
Recipe – Garlic Soup
Normally when I share a more formalized recipe, there’s a specific place I can point to and you can look and see for yourself what my source was. “Aha,” you’ll say, “Interesting recipe – I wonder what else that blog has to say about…” etcetera. The point is, there’s usually a live link. Today’s recipe […]
Movie – Ready Player One
You know how there’s that saying, “Never meet your heroes”? I feel like there should be a correlary for the movie industry “never make a movie when you don’t respect the original property”. Saying that makes it sound like I didn’t like the movie version of Ready Player One, which is not entirely correct. There’s […]
Theater – Vanity Fair
There are lots of classic books I haven’t read, and a few that I feel like I’ve read because I’ve seen a movie version or something on television. Jane Eyre is one of those books, and it turns out that one of the others is its near exact contemporary – Vanity Fair by William Makepeace […]
Recipe – Farro Broccoli Bowl with Lemon Tahini
So, this was the first recipe I made out of the New York Times Cooking app. It just looked so bright and colorful in the article and newsletter that I was transfixed. Plus, I liked everything that was mentioned in the recipe title. Farro? Yes. Broccoli? Hell yes. Lemon and Tahini? Yes and yes again. […]
App/Recipes – NYT Cooking
I love to cook – have you noticed? It’s the kind of thing where it helps me to relax (mostly if it goes well and according to plan – let’s not discuss the recent monkey bread debacle I had). Having a set of instructions, paired with the right ingredients and knowing that what comes out […]
TV – Succession (HBO)
I’m not entirely sure how Succession got onto our TV-watching list. Part of it was probably that it was advertised/immediately followed or preceded some other show the Boy and I watched on HBO. I think we saw the first ads and thought, “Huh – this reminds us of Billions,” and having enjoyed that show so […]