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YAY Jesus! Merry Christmas!! 12/29/2009
I made this brownie cake in the shape of a cross for our annual Christmas party. After dinner, turned out the lights and made all our guests sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. (i think it was actually his 2004th or 2005th..oops)  Happy B-Day JC! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to make Pin the Tale on the Donkey on the Nativity Scene which was a huge success last year.  We made Christmas sweaters adorned with ornaments and branches from our tree. My favorite was my cousin Fred who glued on my dog's Gingerbread Man Squeaky toy so it'd squeak when anyone hugged him.  This was poor Dukie's favorite toy Then our entire party (like twenty-four of us) went to a family friend's Christmas party in our sweaters. (Thanks, Charles! :)  Esther-bo-besther-banana-fanana-fo-fester-me-my-meine-schwester-ESTHER!  We came home a couple hours later to our center piece on fire. (don't forget to blow out candles!)  Stocking-stuffer I made for meine Schwester, Esther: T-Rex Mittins with teeny tiny arms!   she's a violinist so she's meticulous about keeping her hands safe and warm, and now she can do it with STYLE! She just launched a CD in Japan - check out her site here: www.Esther-Kim.com  made the Stanford mascot a little more festive for my brother We somehow manage to keep topping the previous year in wonderfulness. Best Christmas yet! will anxiously be checking this everyday: www.IsItChristmas.com Happy Holidays, everyone!! :) Curiouser and curiouser! 12/10/2009
Look what I get to add to my book collection! A 1934 print of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. When I have it in my hands, I feel like I'm holding a relic from some enchanted land, or that it has some magical power I haven't yet deciphered. It's in pristine condition and so so beautiful...   I was instantly enchanted by the set when I saw it at Feldman Books several months ago but couldn't justify that it was the price of a designer boot. I went back yesterday just to look at it and hold it again. When I came in, the book store owner greeted me with, "Didn't you come in many months ago for the Lewis Carroll set?" and I said, "I haven't been able to stop thinking about it!" He brought it out for me again, and while I was longingly admiring it he offered me a lower price, adding "because you like it so much."   "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more." "You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."   One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it : - it was the black kittens fault entirely.  the cover gold imprints  My Very Merry UnBirthday this past summer  At my favorite SF spot, Bourbon and Branch, a real speakeasy during the Prohibition that covered as a cigar shop. They still require password for entry into their door that's hidden in the middle of the Tenderloin next to a crackwhore, and recently opened up the basement (which was the location of the actual bar in the 1920s). I really recommend trying to check out all four rooms at some point.  The party invites were these "Drink Me" viles filled with port, and a riddle for the password "Mister Rabbit" to enter. All the tea cakes had "Eat me" or "Try me" written on them. It was a lot of fun...but I always enjoy planning parties more than the actual events, I don't know why...  ...maybe it's the difference between hopeful creation and impending end. Both seem to me an awareness of the passage of time but with very different lights. And maybe that's why youth is generally pleasantly looks upon, the illusion of a generous portion of time that in large quantities appear to be hope. Ok, side tangent, I watched this silly historian's talk who proudly found what Michelangelo looked like, pulling from the statue of David (which is assumed to be modeled after him in his youth) and the Vitruvian Man (him in old age). The absurdity of the endeavor to begin with aside, it interested me that the portraits of him as a youth and in old age didn't satisfy the audience; people wanted to know what he'd look like in his "prime." And I thought maybe people always picture themselves in their prime as the base metric; viewing old age they as a deviance from and childhood as an approach to it.  Misc Herr Johann GOZZZIIIRRAAA!! 12/04/2009
 (thanks yoshey-poo) YaY! Congrats to Edward, mein Bruder! 12/03/2009
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