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| Amy's Brain is
47%
Female, 53% Male |
Amy's brain is a healthy mix of male
and female
You are both sensitive and savvy.
Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed.
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve.
What Gender Is Your Brain? |
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November
2007
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 Thanksgiving dinner was simply
amazing. Mr. BAW out did himself this year. Take a look at
the spread we had, the turkey was perfectly cooked, even the white meat
was moist. Then there was the stuffing, with apples and nuts, and
the potatoes were laced with real bacon bits. :-) He even made
the gravy and cranberry sauce from scratch!! There was also
freshly baked cinamon bread and the oh-so-heavenly peanut butter
pie. Mr. BAW's cousin brought us some wonderful wine to go with
the meal. And our other guest, a friend of mine from work,
brought ice cream and carved the turkey. What did I do??
Besides eating, I made my special stuffed mushroom for an afternoon
appetizer. It's special because it only took me 5 minutes to make
and 15 minutes in the microwave. :-)
In the mean time, Toby was anxiously waiting on the couch for the big
meal. But of course all he ended up with was an apple we didn't
use for the stuffing. But he was happy to have our guests pet him
all day long.
This year we were smart and made our guests take home some turkey,
stuffing, mash potato, and pie with them. The next day, Mr. BAW
took what was left of the turkey (bones and all) and made turkey stock
out of it which he then turned into yummy turkey noodle soup.
Yes, I'm a lucky girl! :-)
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Welcome little Tyler! He's Kim's brand new
baby
boy. Isn't he gorgeous?? Hm...maybe baby E's
new
boyfriend? It's been a week, but Kim's other "boys"
(Duke and Eddie the
dogs) are still adjusting apparently, to not being the only babies in
the family. :-)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We're hosting Thanksgiving for a
cousin and a friend. Mr. BAW is going all out with an 11-lb
turkey, complete with stuffing, gravy, mash potatoes, string beans,
cranberry sauce, and peanut butter pie. Yes, he's making
everything! On Tuesday night, he already baked two peanut butter
pies, one to take to work! Oh, I'm making stuffed mushrooms for
the appetizer. Oh, and I'm cutting up the Pillsbury sugar cookie
dough. :-) Toby's job is to snoop around the kitchen for
any accidental drops of bread or apple bits.
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Some couples have them, some don't. What am
I talking about? Wedding videographers of course! Ever
since I had my first memory of a wedding (I believe it was one of my
aunt's wedding) I've heard of the big debate, to hire videographers or
not. I've decided a long time ago that I do want the day
captured, but have not decided on whether we should hire professional
wedding videographers. So I had a discussion with Mr. BAW tonight
and we decided to ask a close friend of mine who happens to be a big
time Hollywood writer to capture the day for us. El Dwag has not
only written for shows like Mad About You, Suddenly Susan, and Malcom
in the Middle, he is also a movie
critic, video editor, and video producer. Take a look at this
wonderful compilation of a family
Christmas.
I love the throw back look combined with the kitchy sounds of
today. I don't want the stiff look of typical
professional wedding videography, I want El Dwag to put in his personal
touches. He's also known me for years and being one of my closest
friends, this will be a very special gift to us.
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We went to Ikea a
few days ago because I saw these adorable new stuffed toys online and
had to get them for Toby. These are all $5 from Ikea!! I
love them because they all have cloth noses and eyes, so Toby won't end
up swallowing plastic parts. If I went to a pet store for these
guys, they would've been at least $20 each!
We ended up getting him a pink hippo, stuffed soccor ball, and a spikey
stuffed baseball. When presented with the hippo, his eyes lit up
and and he runs around the house with the hippo in his mouth while
shaking his head. It's the most dorky yet adorable thing Ive ever
seen. All that was worth the drive to Ikea.
These toys are all from the children's section of
Ikea. A few years ago Ikea added a dog line of products.
But most of the products are for small dogs. Apparently, they
also allow dogs in their store. But I've only seen tiny dogs in
the store...maybe they don't allow big dogs, since they don't carry big
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I also saw these cute vases and candle holders at
Ikea. The vases are only $2 each!! The large candle holders are
$12 each, also extremely cheap. I've been thinking about our
reception center pieces and these candle holders may work. All of
these options are extremely affordable, and who wouldn't want to take
these candle holders home as gifts from us?? But I'll hold off
buying anything until I talk to a florist...
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The weather's been
rather gloomy and chilly in LA the past week. Thankfully, it's
helped with the fire situation tremendously. But combine this
with the recent time change and I'm already getting the winter
blues. I am sadly reminded of the time we took a trip down the
California coast back in July, after TNK's wedding in San
Francisco.
I realize that I forgot to show you pictures from that beautiful trip
to Monterey, Carmel, and San Luis Obispo. California has some of
the world's most beautiful coastlines. I hope my pictures will
give you a glimps of the natural beauty.
Though it was the most
perfect proposal, I complained in jest that I
had a dress all planned out for the proposal I thought I was going to
get in Monterey. So Mr. BAW proposed again, this time with me in
my special dress in Monterey. :-)
Enjoy the pictures.
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I can't believe it's November already. Time
flies when you've got a lot to do. Due to the time change, it
gets dark at around 4:30pm now. The time change is always my
signal that winter has arrived. This means start thinking
about Turkeys, sweaters, Christmas cards and presents.
But before we completely leave October, let me
show you how we spent our Halloween this year. A couple of good
friends of ours' happen to live a few blocks from us. They LOVE
Halloween and each year decorate their place to be the hit of their
neighborhood. This year is no different, they turned their side
yard into a crazy haunted house complete with coffins and dead
aliens. Add the effects of a fog machine, strobe lights, and
dramatic music and you've got a great haunted house.
Where we in costumes? Of course, we can't go
to a haunted house without dressing up! Being so busy these days,
I wanted to make things simple. So I recycled our costume from a
few years ago and went as Daphane and Toby went as Scooby Doo. Mr. BAW then
had to be
Fred.
Toby was a huge hit with the trick or treat kids
of course. Besides hating his spots, he endured all the petting
from everyone. But to his dismay, Toby didn't get to eat any
candy that night.
Happy November!
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