So it’s 11 o’clock at night. The cheesecake is done. The crusts for 2 apple pies are in the fridge. The only thing I can say is that one never fully realizes how much fat/butter/sugar there is in these things unless you really make them by hand.
Sp we are also featuring drinks at our party. Cosmopolitans (NY), margaritas (Texas) and gao-liang liquor (Taiwan).
Vince is still awake. He’s crashing every day at 3 or 4 pm and sleeping well past 5 pm. I’m not sure how to remedy the situation.
Today we went to the East Fishkill library for our weekly exchange of books and CDs. It’s pretty hilarious. Sometimes I’m grateful that we don’t have a big house because then I would have to look in 2-3 times more space for lost library books. Today we were there just in time to go to the 11 am storytime, which Vince loved. I finally got to see in person the sitting down in a group that he learned in nursery school. I used to take him to these things a year ago and he didn’t want to sit down and he would scream at the top of his lungs if anybody sang songs.
I finally had to put the child gate up in our house. We have a staircase in our apt and today was the first day that Edda is really capable of crawling a distance when I’m out of the room blogging or going to the bathroom or some other nonsense like that.
Blah. I’m sick again. This sucks. It’s probably from all the riding recently. I blame it on the fat issue. Sorta amazing how you immune system goes south if it really is due to that. I can see why pro racers get sick all the time. Well, I’ll just try to eat well and take care of myself. not much more you can do about that.
I think it’s time to clean up my room at some point also. it’s bee messy for way too long really. maybe i’ll do that tonight.
On Saturday we are hosting a party for 15 people in our little apartment to celebrate 2 years in NY with AMD. Most of the people moved from Austin to Taiwan to NY, so we are trying to theme the food to the three locations. Chips and Salsa for appetizer, 3-cup chicken and rice for dinner, and NY cheesecake and apple pie for dessert. There is a lot to do and a lot to shop for. I think we’ll make the cheesecake today. 2.5 pounds of cream cheese is coming to room temp on my counter.
So I got my knitting evaluation back. Somehow I was expecting a little bit more feedback.
Vince playing with the camera.
My evaluation from Ruth.
We also got a check in the mail! Thank you! Wow, the parents are mailing money left and right. Ha ha!
I started doing the exercise this morning downstairs at 5:30 AM. First, they went thru all the tests and recorded them. For a 63 1/2 old folk like me, it was not bad. The good part of it, it was on company time :). I went thru several walking and weight lifting machines plus doing all the push-ups that I could. I spent about an hour to do that. I will continue to spend that amount of time every weekday to improve my health and reduce my blood pressure. See what will happen later on.
I got the package today. It’s very cool. I haven’t gotten a present like that in a long time. Thanks! I had ordered something from Amazon and I thought that was what was sitting on my counter, but no! Presents! Yum… Incidentally I didn’t know which one was the pink frosted one. There’s only a yellow frosted one as far as i can tell…
Also, thanks mom. I got the check for the blanket in the mail!