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40 Questions for 2009

Time for my annual reckoning — in question form — of the year that was. This is my sixth year for this list — wow! really?

What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Attended a presidential inauguration, toured around the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, read a book in the New York Public Library [...]

Monday Snack: World Series Cupcakes

Every Thursday at work is Snack Day. We each take turns bringing in a tasty treat. Since there are about 15 of us, more than three months pass in between snack days. It’s easy to forget.
At least it’s easy for me to forget.
I walked in to the printer room — which on Thursday is known [...]

Saturday Snack — Bison on a Stick

Tried this for a quick lunch today. It comes from Cooking Light and is South Beach Diet friendly. Grilled meat on a stick is always a good thing.
Before…

…After

–lori

Saturday Snack — Broken Glass Jello

I was looking for a sugar-free dessert to make for a baby shower, where the mom-to-be needs to watch her sugar intake. I thought about jello, since sugar-free jello is such a staple for South Beach Diet-ers. Plus jello has a kind of fun, 1950s vibe to it.
So I found this recipe for Broken Glass [...]

Baseball’s The Best Game Ever Played and Here’s Why

First of all, under ideal conditions baseball requires of its fans three full hours of sitting outside in the sunshine. And there’s not much that’s wrong with that.
For less than the cost of a movie ticket, if you’re lucky enough to live in a town with a minor league team, you can spend your evening [...]

Five Days of Photos: Ireland 2009

“Their second album was more adventurous but less commercially successful than their first …”
–lori

Five Days of Photos: Ireland 2009

Mr. Goddess finds it’s barren on the Burren. 

Five Days of Photos: Ireland 2009

“… and this is the tree where they grow all the Guinness.”
–lori

Five Days of Photos: Ireland 2009

Don’t even think of entering here. As far as you’re concerned, the rest of the planet beyond this point is out of bounds. 
–lori

Five Days of Photos: Ireland 2009

Mr. Goddess and I are back from a rather spontaneous five-day vacation to Ireland with the lovely Swartzes and the lovely Keilys and it was all quite lovely. 
Don’t believe me? Check this out:

Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. You don’t see that running out to the Home Depot in Langhorne, now do ya?
–lori

Capsule Movie Reviews

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

Avatar
Pittsford Plaza
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

An Education
The Little 11.24.09
Sally Sparrow from Dr. Who is all-grown up! You do feel as if you are watching a star in the making in Carey Mulligan.

Pirate Radio
The Little 11.13.09
Funny in bits (best bit: Bill Nighy dancing) but not funny as a whole. A bit episodic, with a ridiculous ending.

A Serious Man
The Little 11.07.09
The Coen brothers have made another divisive film: I really like it; Mr. Goddess hated it. I thought it was deeply funny and deeply ... deep.

Capitalism: A Love Story
The Little 10.05.09
Unlike other Michael Moore docs, this was more of a piece of investigative journalism than a political screed. Moore shines his light on for-profit prisons, the appallingly low salaries of airline pilots, and the "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on their own employees -- all in the name of making a profit out of anything.

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