So Vince is liking school, mainly because they make such cool crafts! Today he made a birds nest out of brown and green crepe paper, a tissue box, two paper birds and chocolate eggs. He was so excited. Appletree is a hit!
Ruby seems a bit bummed. Vince has been tormenting Ruby when my attention is elsewhere and I think Ruby misses Jeremy. She’s been in her crate more than usual.
Mainly to Emy and Jeremy — our dentist in New York is the coolest dentist there is and we go to her all the time –> even Jeremy who hates dentists. Anywhooo – she and her hubby built this way cool house about 10 minutes north from Bard and here is their story.
I always enjoy coming to Dresden, and yesterday was no exception. I woke up at 4:30 or so, and after chatting with Doris I went for a walk up the hill behind the hotel, to the Spitzhaus, where I had a nice view of the sunrise. It is nice to feel the crisp 0C air after all the time in Singapore. Then I went to the office, where I had a productive and pleasant day. It is a great pleasure to work with people with whom I have worked for years. After work I had dinner at a local restaraunt with a couple guys from AM Singapore, who are staying at the same hotel. They said they would walk up the hill with me this morning, so I have to get dressed for this now, and get ready for another long productive day.
Elaine, our dogwalker, took Ruby for a walk this morning. Ruby was so excited to see her, she was flipping out all over the apartment, prancing and scratching the floor and almost jumping on everybody in the apartment.
Vince went to school today! He seemed to really like it! What a relief. It’s from 11 – 12:30 which is kind of a bummer because it’s right in the middle of lunch, but I packed him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and he ate the whole thing immediately after class. I was worried because Jeremy’s gone and I wanted Jeremy to be around, but Vince was calm and excited about the whole thing. There are 4 other kids in his class, and Vince might have been the most relaxed one. This is just a 2 week thing – singapore is on it’s long holiday a 6-week break from school and everyone starts their new grade in January. Vince will be N2 for Nursery 2.
So I’m gearing up to wean Edda and then I’m going on a fashion tear. OK, I’m really just searching fashion websites and I’ve determined that there is no way to be fashionable without dry cleaning your freaking clothes. There is now way I can be fashionable with tee shirts and jeans that I just throw in the washer/dryer. Oh well, I’m just impressed about how much you can spend on a pair of shoes ($600) or a bag (pretty much as much as you want to spend).
Donald, have you looked into other girls’ closests recently? I own: 1 pair of flip flops, 1 pair of Tevas, 1 pair of clogs. 4 tank tops, 4 shirts, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of khakis, 2 pairs of shorts and a bunch of sports bras and cotton underwear. I have a dress that I wear maybe once every 3 months. I *always* have something to wear. Do girls actually own 10-20 pairs of shoes/pants/shirts/etc? Because if I’m suppose “build a wardrobe”, I’m suppose to have a closet full of dry-clean only clothes. Argh! I want to look good.
Donald, where is my bet money? Mom got a nice watch over the weekend and I am ready to cash in 🙂
Ah, It was a good weekend. A lot happened.
Thursday was dinner at the Kong’s in East Bay. Mrs. Kong was sexy as ever and served up a mean dish of turkey, ham, and prime rib. yum yum. Linz and I became Sudoku masters, or eternally frustrated by them. Also we sang Karakoe Revolution all night on the PS2 with Hasnain and Zainab.
Friday was prep day for the second day of turkey eating on Sunday at Choon’s. I made an apple pie, tho it turned out to be more orangy tangy that I expected. I think I grated waaaay too much orange rind into the mix. It also didn’t help that I didn’t follow the instructions very well.
Friday night I hung out with James who was visiting from LA. Also hung out with Ronnie’s parents too who were around for the weekend. We went to Kabul’s, and afghan place, where they didn’t fill our water glasses for 30 minutes, they came by with the wrong order, and Ronnie’s mom found a metal shaving in her salad.
Saturday, was Big Date night. I went up to the city to meet up with Winnie, and it went okay. I had fun, tho honestly I think I’m looking for someone different and I’m pretty sure that she’s looking for someone different too. We went to the place called Watercress, and Asian-French fusion place, where the waiters were funny, and teased us a bit. I don’t think Winnie was amused… I thought it was funny. We went to go see “Prime” after that. I had seen it already, but she enjoys chick flicks, and it’s definitely got some funny ass parts in the movie. I like the part when Uma Thurman finds out that her boyfriend lives with his grandparents. 😛
Sunday was cooking day,as we started around 10am. Turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread, stuffing, apple pie. That was on my plate. Turkey I think we ended up overcooking since the breast was a bit dry. The cornbread just sucked, and read above for the apple pie. Tho everyone loved loved the mashed potatoes and the stuffing. We must have dumped like 2-3 heads worth of garlic into the potatoes. yum yum. I’ll have to save the stuffing recipe too. it turned out really really well. on the whole, I think everyone was pretty impressed with the meal. that’s good cause there was a lot of pressure to make it a good one. 😛
Welp. That’s it. everyone, i got the box of stuff for singapore. i havent’ opened it yet, but I will tomorrow.
good nigth!
We had a really nice Thanksgiving. Celebrated it on Saturday as everybody was working on Thursday. Jeremy made the turkey and stuffing, Vince and I made the carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. We invited Kate, Chris and Dakshi and the kids were great and didn’t melt down, even after 2 sugary grape drinks and a can of Coke, Vince did great! Kate brought over some sweet potatoes and I tried to make this classic green bean dish, which I had never heard of, but it involves french-fried onions which I couldn’t find in Singapore.
Today, Jeremy left at about noon to head out to Dresden!
So tomorrow (Saturday)is big thanksgiving day for us here in Singapore. This morning, we talked to all the Martins in Nyack, NY via webcam. (Mom and Dad, you gotta get a webcam, it’s too cool) We saw everybody including 3 new babies! Felix, Zoe and Vanesa!
I’m making a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. A turkey is running around the house. We’re going to have a nice time.