Tuesday, January 12, 2010

January 11, 2010

Happy Monday. Entertainment weekly had a great interview with Ellen and Simon Powell, if you are fans, I suggest you check it out.
If you are worried about lead content in your crystal combining with your wine, you don’t need to. (I’ve never been worried about this in my life). Wine would need to sit in a lead container for many months for leaching to occur. I don’t know about you, but my wine is never in a glass that long. Still worried? Buy lead free crystal.
By consciously choosing the direction of your thoughts you can achieve constant connection with all that you find good.
Kinesics n.: a systematic study of the relationship between nonlinguistic body motions (as blushes, shrugs, or eye movement) and communication.
It’s an exciting week. I started making lists. I think I could make a top 10 list for something everyday. Here goes today:

10 Things I Hate About Facebook:
10. Friend of the Day. Which brings me to
9. Photo of the Day.
8. Friend Suggestions. No I don’t know that person.
7. Reconnect with this Friend. If I wanted to talk to them on fb I would. I’m not forgetting them. Half the time fb wants me to reconnect with someone it’s my mother. We haven’t lost touch.
6. People that ‘like’ everything
5. Someone commented on something that you commented on notifications…what?
4. Daily Horoscopes
3. Posting the color of your bra
2. People who literally do the same thing everyday. Yes I know you will have coffee and go to work today. So will the entire rest of the world. You do not need to post everyday that this is what you are doing.
AND FINALLY I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU
1. Farmville. O.M.G America, Really???

January 10, 2010

This week’s recommended wine (since there’s no new info on the wine calendar on Sunday): Crios, Rose of Malbec. You can find it at Market Street.
You are conscious in your physical body for the thrill and exhilaration of specific focus and creation.
Confabulate v.: 1. to talk informally; chat 2. to hold a discussion; confer 3. to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication.
COWBOYS WON!!!! Had a few people over for the game. Did a little wine tasting. Will have a fab new wine this week to share.

January 9, 2010

Marrying Well is the title for today’s wine notes. Warm winter fruit. Honey flavored dessert wine, Sauternes, from Bordeaux goes great this time of year with poached pears and apples. When the air outside is crisp and icy, it’s warm and cinnamon and sugar inside. The contrast of warm fruit and cool wine makes the pairing dynamic. Some suggested Sauternes are Chateau Riesussec, Chateau Suduiraut, Chateau Doisy-Vedrines. I will try this combination in the near future and tell you what I think. If you try it, then please share your story too.
You are free and you always have been free. (From now on, I’m going to try to share the message I got from the Ask and it is Given calendar in one sentence).
Febrile adj.: marked or caused by fever; feverish
Cowboys play in the playoffs tonight. Go COWBOYS!!!! I love football.

January 8, 2010

Today’s wine suggestion: Chimney Rock Cabernet Sauvignon. Orgin: Stags Leap District, Napa Valley, CA. Price: $62. Go try it. Let me know what you think.
You are the creator of your own life experience.
Truculent adj.: 1. feeling or displaying ferocity 2. deadly or destructive 3. aggressively self assertive (I could use this word in my book).
Alabama won. I feel a little bad because I was a little happy that Texas lost their quarter back. They took out our quarter back which essentially cost us a season. Don’t even get me started on Landry Jones. So I felt it was only karma.

January 7, 2010

The wine calendar has a matching game that would be pretty hard to share through blogging. How annoying.
Passel n.: a large number or amount.
The is nothing you cannot be, do, or have. However where you are right now is the joyful journey to where you want to be.
Tonight is the BCS Championship!!! I’m an OU fan, but I’ll be rooting for Alabama tonight. 1. Because my neighbors will be rooting for Alabama and they are coming over (They are normally Gator fans) 2. I may not be an Alabama fan but I am defiantly not a Texas fan.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

January 6, 2010

I went back to the office today. It was kind of nice to be working, but can’t get a whole lot done with a 6 week old.
I’ve been really working on my book. Like I think I have over 70 pages completed. It’s been a great couple of days for that. It’s interesting writing a book, often I just sit down and start writing. The ideas come at the right moments. I’m sure I’ll change some, edit here and there when I go back. But what’s interesting is when I’m reading a book I keep reading because I want to know what happens next. I’m a very fast reader and usually finish a book within a day or two. Well when I’m writing I also want to know what happens next so I keep writing, but it’s a much slower process. I want to know what will happen in my book, but I haven’t created it yet so there’s no way of knowing.
Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar are famous biblical personalities. They are also the names of large-size wine bottles. Champagne can be bottled in anything from a Jeroboam (equal to 4 standard bottles) up to a Nebuchadnezzar (equal to 20 standard bottles.)
Fissiparous adj.: tending to break up into parts.

January 5, 2010

5 days in and I'm already slacking. Posting a blog everyday is more difficult than you would think. Here's the reason though. It's easier for me to write or do anything in the morning, husbands gone, baby is sleeping, but usually in the morning I haven't learned anything. I don't just want to post what my calendars say. So maybe I'll always be a day behind.
I like today's wine calendar, it's a wine suggestion. Marchesi Di Barolo (full bodied dry red). Orgin: Alba, Piedmont, Italy. Price: $17. Goes well with tomato and provolone brushetta, salumi, mild to moderately pungent cheeses. Great antipasta wine. I haven't made it to the store to pick this up and try it. I'll write a small review once I have.
Alley-oop n.: a basketball play in which a player catches a pass above the basket and immediately dunks the ball.
If you are among the rare people that are enjoying the evolution of your desire then you understand who you are and what the physical life experience is really about.