MeggBrown.com

http://www.markgr.com/presentations/eduweb2008/keynote/ for lots of good stuff.

Didn’t bring laptop for this session, so keeping blogging to a minimum today.

Birthday with Mom was good. Dessert came out too….

Also took pictures of the yard….

I’m attempting to make Barefoot Contessa’s Mixed Berry Pavlova for my mother’s birthday “cake.” She turns 67 today. And is on weight watchers so I loaded up a ton of fruit and cut back on the sugar — indulgence at 200 calories each if we slice it in 6 portions.

I’m going to take strawberries and make them into candle holders — slice off the top for a flat edge and stick each candle in the end. Not sure how many candles yet. 8 sounds about right. Not sure. And I forgot something to have “Happy Birthday” on top. Meant to look at the store to see if they had some kind of topper. Oh well. Candles are good. And I got cool ones — rainbow colors and the flame is supposed to match the color of the candle (blue candle has blue flame, green candle has green flame, etc.)

The folks are picking me up in 45 minutes to go walking around Rhinebeck (2 towns north.) We were originally going to go to the city, but dad thought otherwise. I knew he didn’t want to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge — something my mother has always wanted to do — so I told her I’d go down to the city with her when weather was cooler, before the installation of the waterfalls ends.

OK, enough stalling. I’ll take pictures of the big pile of fruit with birthday candles.

Finished audio book version of Slaughterhouse Five last night — it had an interview with Kurt Vonnegut at the end, along with this odd music mix with him reading from the book.

Aside from Tivo and EZPass all I’ve bought is….

Dunkin Donuts coffee and bagel Sat

I have a book and Heroes Season 2 in my shopping cart, but holding off checking out.

Currently reading : Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Release date: 1999-01-12

So, I’m in line at the bookstore about to purchase ‘lunch’ and someone I know gets in line behind me. Suddenly I realize I have an odd purchase in my hands for the bookstore (e.g. mainly food) but that is the only place on campus that takes AmEx and I forgot lunch and cash at home. And then I got an idea — what if I posted every stupid excessive purchase I make — would that curb my consumption? That just might work. I think once a week if I ‘fess up to the stuff I didn’t need I might actually think twice AND not buy it.

Bottled water
Iced coffee (2)
Granola bars (2)
Vanilla wafers
Thai noodle bowl
A copy of Slaughterhouse Five

Currently reading : Critical Chain Project Management, Second Edition By Lawrence P. Leach

Had a good time Friday night with the Bailey’s celebrating Jason’s birthday. He started poking around my ipod and set up a playlist and asked everyone to take turns adding songs. His dad made him a chess board so he set up the game for everyone to take turns playing. It was a good night.

Here’s what we came up with…. got through most of it until we switched to all Cat Stevens in honor of Jason’s dad after Jason opened the chess board.

Tortilla Soup

Bill Conti (Tortilla Soup)

Rawhide

The Blues Brothers (The Blues Brothers Soundtrack)

Stray Cat Strut

Brian Setzer (Brian Setzer: The Ultimate Collection)

We Got The Beat

The Go-Go’s (The Big 80’s)

Jane Says

Jane’s Addiction (Jane’s Addiction)

Sympathy For The Devil

The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet)

God’s Gonna Cut You Down

Johnny Cash (American V: A Hundred Highways)

Sweet Home Alabama

Lynyrd Skynyrd (All-Time Greatest Hits)

Poison Ivy

The Coasters (50 Coastin’ Classics)

Brick House

Commodores (Muppets From Space - Soundtrack)

Son Of A Preacher Man

Dusty Springfield (Pulp Fiction)

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Jim Croce (Classic Hits)

Good Golly Miss Molly

Little Richard (Georgia Peach)

Komm Gib Mir Diene Hand

The Beatles (Rarities (Blue Box))

Mustang Sally

The Commitments (The Commitments)

Brown Sugar

The Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers)

How Blue Can You Get

B.B. King (Blues Selects)

Rocky Raccoon (Take

The Beatles (Anthology 3)

Why Don’t We Do It In The Road (Take 4)

The Beatles (Anthology 3)

Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)

Blu Cantrell (So Blu)

It Ain’t Me Babe

Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits)

Money For Nothing

Dire Straits (Money For Nothing)

Wild Wild West

The Escape Club (Totally 80’s)

My Blue Heaven

Fats Domino (Fat Man)

Big Pimpin’

Jay-Z (Jay-Z Unplugged)

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf (Bat Out Of Hell)

My Girl

Otis Redding (John Lennon’s Jukebox)

Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard

Paul Simon (Paul Simon)

Graceland

Paul Simon (The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way Don’t Know Where I’m Going)

Heaven

Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition (1984 Film))

Doctor! Doctor!

The Thompson Twins (VH-1: More Of The Big 80’s)

Peace Train

Cat Stevens (Cat Stevens’ Greatest Hits)

Soul Bossa Nova

Quincy Jones (Austin Powers)

Somebody To Love

The Ramones (Acid Eaters)

Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?

Rod Stewart (Storyteller)

Scarborough Fair

Simon & Garfunkel (SNL 25 - The Musical Performances - Volume 3)

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