My grandparents came over yesterday.  I wanted to show my grandpa the latest Martha Stewart Living issue that came to my house (it's a long story of why I get Martha Stewart, and I actually just canceled it).  It's a gardening issue, and I know he likes that sort of thing ( Read more... )

My 67 year old aunt has a friend in Australia who told her to get Skype so that they could talk for free.  Great idea, right?  No.  My uncle thought he had set it up, but my aunt tried to use it, failed, and called me.  Turns out, he didn't set it up.  He only downloaded the install file.  When she double-clicked it, she got an error message of " ( Read more... )

No, this is not a late night post, written when I should be sleeping and not looking at totally random things on the internet...  Anyway ( Read more... )

I went to Quantum Leap again yesterday, a great vegetarian restaurant on Thomson St I've been eating in since moving back to NYC.  However, in all of that time, I have never gotten dessert there just b/c I fill up on dinner, and am no longer hungry by that point.  This apparently was wise.  Yesterday, my friend did want to try dessert.  So we got ( Read more... )

Design Debutante has been updated.  Not so much about design, but about Eastern European music I am now obsessed with.  Sure, it's off-target, but hell...  it's my blog, and I'll write what I want :P.

Tell your friends.  Also, I accept music recommendations.  If you know people who take something existing and turn it on its ass, drop me a line.  ( Read more... )

Today was the make-ahead day of Thanksgiving prep.  If I had a digital camera, you would have pictures, but you'll have to trust me on how exhausting and worthwhile this is...  four and a half hours of making roasted veggies, cranberry sauce, and sangria.  Which shouldn't take that long, except there were A LOT of things to peel and chop and boil, ( Read more... )

Apparently, if you don't fight with your husband, you die.  Click here to read the NYTimes article.  G-d bless American media, which tells us all kinds of things about ourselves that we should have figured out anyway, but we don't believe them unless there's a research study involved.  

This is my very prompt posting:  the Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park today was lots of fun.  I combined some friends who all got along very well, and that makes me happy...  There were a lot of people all dressed up, which is always great to see, and there were some truly excellent moments, such as when we saw this big burly man in armor and ( Read more... )

A girl I met a few days ago pointed something out to me.  There was this mass migration from the former Soviet Union in the early 90s, which included my own family, and a good deal of my friends.  She had been back recently, and she said, "You know, it's a totally different place now.  The people are different, the language is different.  Meanwhile ( Read more... )

I have 99 visits to Design Debutante!  Go visit it, and top me over the 100 mark :).  Granted that isn't much in the way of the online world, but it's my little corner of it, all mine.  And Google Analytics tells me who's been reading it (people in Nebraska and the Netherlands, for example), so I'll know if you've been naughty or nice...  This is a ( Read more... )