Thursday, April 3, 2008

Keeping the Blog Alive...

Current interests:

-looking at cupcakes on MarthaStewart.com
-knitting cables on the fronts of the Must Have Cardigan
-thinking of cures for migraines
-uses for eggs
-reading Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking"
-American Idol
-Lost
-Jane Austen

Comments?

5 comments:

zelda said...

I've been collecting Martha's cupcakes as well.

Do you have an excess of eggs?

I'd be interested in your opinion of the Joan Didion book--maybe you should write a review on Goodreads when you're done.

shiguy4076 said...

Did you end up liking the book? I read it for book club and I couldn't finish it. I just skimmed the last few chapters.

I like Martha Stewarts recipes.
Shi

Lynda said...

I do have an excess of eggs. I get them from a farm, who also has an excess of eggs. These are huge brown eggs with industrial-strength shells, and flourescent orange yolks. So far I have come up with quiche, angel food cake (12 whites), ice cream (4 yolks), egg salad, egg curry, egg noodles (12 yolks). I haven't tried an 8-yolk Bernaise sauce I saw while watching the Food Network in the dentists chair (no cavities).


I can't say I liked "A Year of Magical Thinking" because it was sad. I felt like they had had an empty existence and I didn't like walking in her shoes. Absence of faith, absence of hope. I did like the part where she and her husband had met a couple from Utah in an airport who were living in Java, helping out locals, -- her husband had put in his notes that they were examples of service and that he had wished to be like them.

MS recipes can be fun, but complicated at times.

Lynda said...

Further thoughts: Of course, are you supposed to LIKE a book on death and grief? It did want me to want to prepare myself, if that is possible, and to finish my "Just In Case" binder for my family.

zelda said...

You get to watch Food Network at your dentist? We are forced to watch The Today Show or kids' cartoons--and that's in the waiting room. Nothing at all once you're in the chair. I'm jealous.

I have to admit I avoid thinking about death. Every once in a while, I remember I need to do my will, then I forget about 5 seconds late.