January 30, 2005

Lunchy, Crafty, Catty Saturday

Yesterday, my grandmother hosted a luncheon for Kat and the women in Dimitri's and my family. It was a lovely afternoon, and my grandmother went to a lot of trouble to cook a nice meal and to have a bunch of ladies over.

Cute pictures: 1 2 3 4

We had pork loin in a dill cream sauce, which I didn't eat because the pork was still pink. *shudder* I likes my meat dead and brown. None of this sissy "medium" stuff. Kat ate it, which surprised me until she later admitted that she thought it was ham, and turned a bit green when I told her that it wasn't.

We also had orzo (yum) and a wild green salad. For dessert, Nana made a pistachio bunt cake, which was yummy, and the leftovers of which will not last in my kitchen for too much longer.

Saturday night I put together a present for my girlfriend's shower next Saturday. I felt quite ljc about the whole affair, and consequently made a craft page for interested parties to peruse.

And finally, I caught Ruby on camera sneaking into a box filled with air-packing sacs. I have finally crossed over into crazy cat lady territory. I have a scarf for my cat, about a bazillion pictures of her, and several snippets of home movies of me saying "Ruby, look over here, Ruby, Ruby..."


(If, like me, you see no control bars, I believe double clicking this once it's loaded will start the video.)

There are worse fates, I suppose. I could have twenty cats and do the same thing...

Posted by Jen at January 30, 2005 12:17 AM
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I'm proud that I figured out how to post video, but I wish I knew how to fix it so you don't have to wait to long to see the video.

Although I'm pretty sure that the coding is set to show the QuickTime control bar a the bottom of the video, I can't get it to show in IE or FireFox. Bleh.

Posted by: Jen at January 30, 2005 12:24 AM

i had a lot of fun at nana's house. nice job on the present. i am seriously impressed, anal girl. ;)

Posted by: kat at January 30, 2005 12:28 AM

Tell Kat not to worry. In modern production pork is pretty safe and according to this article, pork doesn't need to be cooked till brown (or gray). Of course if you don't like the taste of "medium" that is a different matter but since Kat liked the taste she doesn't need to worry that the "ham" was pink.

Posted by: susan at January 30, 2005 9:13 AM

woah woah. i said nothing about taste. it wasn't too bad but i ate way more orzo than pork. i was being polite.

Posted by: kat at January 31, 2005 1:47 PM

Thanks for putting that point about double clicking--that helped me to see the video.

And your nails look great in the craft project page.

Posted by: JennySmith at February 1, 2005 10:24 AM

Hey Jen, I just realized I haven't sent my RSVP. It's going in the mail Monday but you can count me in.

Posted by: susan at February 5, 2005 4:41 PM