We had a very nice bottle of champagne at home with my lobster Cobb salad. Yum.

I always make the same two resolutions every year:

1. Eat more fruit.
2. Have more fun.

When I looked out my kitchen window this morning I saw a bright red cardinal in a holly tree. I'll take that as a good omen for 2010!

Dating systems feel arbitrary to me, so I pretty much ignored the whole thing.

But, I do have a yogurt tip to pass along. For those who like the thicker yogurts, Ziyad Country Style Yogurt is lovely, lovely stuff. Not quite as thick as Fage, made from no rBST milk, live culture, (there is some pectin), but it is not too sour, has depth, is clean tasting and is so good, I can't stop eating it straight out of the container.

I found it at the Highlandtown Market. It is a Lebanese brand (made here), so you might be able to find it at Pakistani markets. Comes in a mostly green with yellow highlights quart tub. I think it was $2.35, which is just over half the price of Stoneyfield Farms plain yogurt.

I shouldn't tell folks until I can get back to Highlandtown Market and buy them out, but I'm feeling foolish.

I too drank prosecco last night, but I couldn't even finish one glass. Sparkling wines/champagne is probably my least favorite adult beverage, so unlike other said beverages (I'm looking at you Beajolais and Bourbon) I never have to worry about drinking a little too much.

This morning I'll be making up some blood orange mimosas. The OJ makes the prosecco a lot more palatable, so with this cocktail I won't have any problem finishing a glass. Why, I'll probably have two.

My husband had a champagne story last night. On one occasion several of his former students were gathered together, so he ordered a bottle of fine champagne at their meal. One woman said she didn't like champagne--until she took a sip and said "Oh!" She had never had anything but plonk before.

Great Captcha: lipread that

RoCK...Love Bourbon...Hate Beaujoais (gamay is not my favotite grape.)
Blood orangr mimosas? Where in Cross Keys do you live? I can be there in half an hour.

captcha: schedula dishrags

yeah...I'll wash the glasses

Didn't have so much as a sip of potent potables last night, waiting for someone to get in gear so i can make amends for that.

Peter's Inn looks like the perfect place for brunch as far as i can tell by the online menu, but at this rate, i might have to settle for dinner!

captcha: grouched the (who i'm waiting for)

".... take a cup of kindness then..."

and enjoy!

Mr Smartens..
sounds like an old math teacher

Meekrat (um...Meerkat, right?), Peter's Inn brunch menu was different than what I was expecting. My chorizo hash was not what I was expecting.

Still, I enjoyed it, and I liked the music they were playing. Their bloody marys looked great.

This year I'm resolving to:
--let people go first in traffic more.
--eat more chocolate.
--eat less beef.
--use fewer plastic containers.
--smile more.
--read more.
--hug more.
--tip more generously.
--keep my posts to ten words or fewer--(NOT!)

megawatts kuznetsk (my Russian power plant worker name)

Excellent list, Cleatus!

Also hard to imagine that I was in Argentina at this time last year.

You weren't with Mark Sanford were you?
:-)
Happy New Year!

Jackzig wins!

And Sanford loses.

Captcha: plans nepalese (the next excuse?)

Really? Wraps started and ended in this decade? Aw, I like wraps. They're still showing up in every catered event at work, so they can't be that bad. Can they?

Wraps are now a mainstay, so I don't think they'll go away. I just don’t think they are as prominent as they were at the beginning of the decade.

Wraps never tasted good, but people liked them because they were convenient and because a populace high on Atkins fever thought they were low carb. Well, they are still convenient. The Atkins fad, however, has not only died down, but wraps were revealed to be just as carb loaded as bread, rolls and biscuits.

Lissa, it really is Meekrat. A long story for another time..

Ok, I look forward to hearing it, Meekrat. I guess I've been transposing it in my mind all this time (I'm dyslexic, strang things happen in my brain).

Just like how I always saw your name as a variation of Lisa. It took me awhile to "hear" it in my head otherwise!

And by the way, I think of Meerkat also (no disrespect Meekrat!). They are cute little critters!

Not only did I transpose it to Meerkat, but I invented a ferret-like feline.

The Ravens clinched a playoff berth, and the Wrap is still a viable sandwich. I am happy tonight,

I am with you Carol! Maybe we could invent a Ravens Wrap in their honor.