New Year’s Eve 2005

My wonderful husband Norm came down with a sore throat yesterday so we decided to cancel our exciting plans of dinner and a movie so we could stay home and nurse him back to health. I thought perhaps I could find a good movie on TV to occupy our evening and enjoy some Chinese takeout. [...]

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A New Gig

Blogger friend Pat asked me to redesign her blog template so she could have a more customized look to her blog. She provided a photo for the header and I made the necessary customizations to the photo, template graphics, HTML and CSS code to create a one-of-a-kind look. Here is a before photo [...]

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My San Diego Christmas Trip

Wednesday, the 21st
Norm and I were able to get an early start on our six-hour road trip to San Diego. We made our usual pitstop for gas and that all-important bathroom break in Yuma. The gas station had one of those single stall ladies rooms so Norm was able to help me without [...]

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Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noël
Feliz Navidad
Schone Weinachten
Suk San Wan Christmas
Sing Dan Fai Lo

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Making My List and Checking It Twice

I’m a list maker and I come by it naturally as my mother is a list maker extraordinaire. With Christmas coming and our road trip to San Diego only 17 hours away I have lots to do and so I made a list of everything that we needed to get done or take with [...]

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Pizza Pizza Update!

My previous post on my disappointment with pizza in Scottsdale got the attention of someone who forwarded my blog to Patsy Grimaldi’s restaurant operations director. I received an e-mail from the director apologizing for my recent dining disappointment and inviting me and a guest for dinner on him so they will have an opportunity [...]

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The Office Christmas Party

Norm is self-employed and works out of our home. Every year we have “the annual office Christmas party” which is usually just the two of us and sometimes a friend. Last night we decided it was time to have our little party so we made our trek out for pizza (see story below) [...]

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Pizza Pizza

I’ve had this strange craving for pizza lately, which is surprising because I’m not a pizza fan. A couple weeks ago Norm and I decided to try the pizza at a restaurant new to us called Streets of New York. I looked them up online and decided they might have good pizza so [...]

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