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I'm not planning on ANYTHING until this Icelandic sweater is complete!

... although I do have thoughts of finishing the purple baby sweater for my friend and making a bright pink fluffy scarf for Dave's cousin, but we'll see

James Blunt - Back to Bedlam

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Audioslave - Out of Exile

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Rachael Ray's Salami Scrambles

Swiss Cheese Scramble - Breakfast Casserole

Spinach & Artichoke Dip

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I am a true New Englander living in Florida with my husband for the year where I am finishing up my last year of graduate school. I was recently married to my amazing husband in June and am loving every moment of creating our home together, along with our kitties Lily and Socrates. Life gets busy, so I am continually striving to balance work and play time, and enjoy all the moments along the way!

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

the official martini of the season

Presenting: The Pomegranate Martini!

This was a hit all season long we were drinking these! Did you know that it's one of Oprah's favorite things?! :) It started when my mom and I were watching Oprah and she had Rachael Ray (gotta love her!) help her put on a party. And Oprah was so into these martini's that we just had to go out and make them. Who knew you could be helping your body (with all those anti-oxidants in pomegranate juice) while enjoying a fantastic drink!?

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Oprah's Pomegranate Martini Recipe

Each year my mom and I have a new drink we serve at all our holiday parties (two years ago we did Cosmo's and last year was the White Grape Martini). My mom is a piano teacher and has a Christmas recital where all the kids play Christmas music and we have a party afterwards. And of course she has to have a theme! This year it was "The Christmas Story"... all the songs were related to the story of Christ's birth and she decorated accordingly. It was beautiful. I wonder if Alex has pics of the recital too... hmm???

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Where have I been???

Okay, so I've never been a very diligent blogger, but this time I went off the deep end. When was my last post? November?!?! Where to begin....

Christmas at home was great! I had my 2nd annual Christmas party the night before Christmas Eve. A bunch of my closest girlfriends from high school all came over. We got dressed up, ate great food, and lots of wine and drinks! It's always great to have those girly parties.

We celebrated Christmas Day at my Gramma's. Dave joined us this year :) I got *some* of my Christmas knits done ;) I'm still working on completing a few more promised gifts. I did get my mom's red scarf done a long time ago, my brother Alex's felted clogs are almost done (one is complete and felted, the other needs a finished sole and to be felted... to do this weekend!), my brother Drew's ginormous hat is half finished (I'm going to rip it out and start over!), my Gramma's scarf is 3/4 finished, and my dad got a couple balls of yarn (promised to someday become a hat!). So yeah, I wasn't so successful in the knitting department, but they WILL be done eventually. I did get a bunch of great knitting related gifts.

A few days after Christmas, the whole family went to see the musical White Christmas in Boston (a Christmas gift to my Gramma). It was fantastic! And dinner afterwards in the North End just topped it off.

And then the next day, I had another party at my place in Boston for New Year's! My brother and a bunch of friends from home and college visited... another successful night :)

But I'm finally up in Boston again. I was home in CT for most of my winter break. It was so nice to just hang out at home with nothing to do. Unfortunately I always had my Master's research, apartment hunting, and a summer job search nagging me in the back of my mind. And I was successfull at getting some of that done. And now I'm gearing up to get back to school for the second semester of my second year of grad school. Dorky me, I'm actually excited for classes to begin next week.

My brother Alex has all the holiday pictures on his digital (which is in CT), so hopefully I'll be able to upload and share them this weekend... stay tuned.