The twins and I visited my father and Joan today for gift exchanging and food. We had a good time visiting and catching up. Joan made an amazing quiche that changed how I’m looking at making quiches. I wasn’t using enough cream and I’m all for using more cream. I think everyone enjoyed their gifts. … Read more

Breakfast was coffee with the two kinds of cream custard again. That is the end of dessert for breakfast. It’s Christmas week. I’ll be good at New Years. I ran a couple of brief errands and worked today. Mostly preparation for a marketing experiment I’m running Monday. I want people from my mailing list to … Read more

We were all pretty full from Christmas dinner so we grazed at random for food. I had dessert for breakfast with coffee which was yummy. As I said, there was quite a bit of the cream custards left over so I had one of each. I mostly relaxed but got a draft of my Friday … Read more

Merry Christmas. We had a nice Christmas breakfast and then my mom and I got food going for the rest of the day. The dinner menu wasn’t complicated so there were long patches of waiting around during which we opened family gifts. I got the best goofy Toy Story Alien gift so far. Dinner was … Read more

It’s Christmas Eve and I did some cooking preparations and helped my mom with other preparations. I made the ginger / vanilla custard cream and chocolate custard cream I wanted to make. (Creme brûlée filling like I was making over the summer in Minnesota). What was nice is that I was feeling myself today. Whatever … Read more

I still wasn’t feeling great today and cancelled an in-person meeting I had. I’ll reschedule after Christmas. I did have a really good call with a business coach from the SF bay area. I found him on LinkedIn and he reached out wanting to talk. He is looking for people to help his clients with … Read more

I went to the memorial service for my daughter’s grandfather in their mother’s side. He had passed away last week in his sleep from heart attack. We were not close but I was glad to support my daughters by attending and they were grateful I was there. After I realized I was starting to not … Read more

We made our regular trip to the farmers market to get vegetables for the week. Hopefully there will be more lettuce in January but everything else we expected was there: broccoli, cauliflower, beets, brussel’s sprouts. I went and did some more Christmas shopping after that. I’ll do one more trip Monday and then I should … Read more

This morning my daughter Elizabeth and I went to Tower Cafe for lunch. Friday morning it isn’t very busy at 8:15-ish and we got a table right next to the Christmas tree. As usual we had the seasonal French toast and coffee and it was amazingly delicious as usual. We had a good time talking … Read more

The Thursday networking group had it’s Christmas gift exchange today. I had a box of chocolate from Walgreens (I forget the actual brand) and a rolled up piece of paper as my gift. The person who first chose my gift made the interesting decision to read the piece of paper out loud. I suppose that … Read more