My Cities of 2008

A couple of the blogs I read and people I follow on Twitter have shared lists of the cities they’ve traveled to in 2008.  I thought I’d do the same… share yours in the comments!
One or more nights were spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive [...]

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38. Visit the United State Botanical Gardens

The Saturday before Christmas (12/20/08), Tammie’s best childhood friend and her husband were in DC en route to upstate New York for Christmas.  While our original plans had included ice skating at the National Sculpture Garden (#44 on the “list”), none of us were really dressed correctly for the disaster that was certain to turn [...]

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All I Want(ed) for Christmas

Last Monday, John Mayer played a benefit concert at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York, where he sang one of my favorite contemporary secular Christmas songs, a cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas (is You).”  The video isn’t great, but here you go: 

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loose ends

I’m doing my best to get the blog queue cleared before January 1st, so here comes a bit of catching up, bullet point style:

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly in passing, I’m going to be an aunt again!  My sister shared her good news with me in a car full of strangers after dinner at Cracker Barrel [...]

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Tuesday morning

So, one of my resolutions for 2009 is to be a better blogger.  I can’t promise quality, but can give you quantity.  In the spirit of said promise, here’s a super cute video of John Krasinski (Jim for you Office fans) at Aimee Mann’s 3rd Annual Christmas show earlier this month (this is a longer [...]

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69. Cook Thanksgiving dinner for friends – updated 1/1/09

So, as most of y’all know, almost 6 weeks ago, I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for twenty of my friends.  It all started some time in early October when Holly made a throw-away suggestion that we should have a big dinner and, honestly, at this point, I can’t remember if Thanksgiving was mentioned or not.  So, [...]

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baking time

I probably have about 5 blog entries rolling around in my head, yet I can’t seem to sit down and actually put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).  I promise, I’ll tell the story of my Friendsgiving (thanks, Katie B!), of spending 3 days typing up family recipes, of witnessing my sister and brother [...]

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Baptized by the Brine

73.  Brine a Turkey
Note: I started this entry on the 25th and then Thanksgiving happened and then I had the longest week ever, so here goes, only 2 weeks after the actual events.
Part of accomplishing number 69 on my list (cook Thanksgiving dinner for my friends) obviously included cooking a turkey.  My Mom and Grandmother [...]

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