its not really a blind date if you’ve done your facebook homework

maybe just deaf and dumb

we’ll see

On her 70th birthday, my grandmother, Max, wanted to do something “totally outrageous”.

In a very un-grandmother-like fashion, she got a tatoo on her wrist. And not just any ink, but a big M with a bloody axe running through it, for Max.

Pretty edgy granny I have

My parents don’t approve but seniority rules

Sunday to do list:

• Go to brunch
• Buy ingredients for latkes
• Make latkes
• Do some/most christmas shopping
• Go to Kiels (2 blocks away)
• See Up in the Air
• Start ebaying

Sunday completed list:

• none of the above

I thought that by today I would have OD’d on chocolate and I would lay off the lingering treats.

I = wrong

I’ve had enough of all of the distracting colors. Back to black & white I go.

And it’s starting to rain

Holy paella

The annual paella party was a blast. Plaintains, paella, and some killer brownies. All particularly good for the waistline, in keeping with the theme of this week

Topped off the Spanish feast with a date at the Mondrian. It’s true what they say, it happens when you least expect it.

A view of our view from our thanksgiving table.

Never underestimate 80 degree weather in November

Evidence that the box of See’s Candies chocolates was, at one point, full