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25303. judithathome - 5/9/2009 1:12:57 PM OK spill the beans Jud: what was the wine? For that price, I want a full review!
This is the humilating part: it was a California wine! A 2004 Lucas & Lewellen Petit Sirah...it was from a 400 case lot. That's all they made and we only paid $30 for the bottle but took it to a restaurant that had a $15 corkage fee. So I count THAT as spending $45 on it. (I'm cheating by including some tip money in the $55 cite...ha!)
I guess I've had more expensive wines before but we're just used to buying cheaper stuff...and certainly not paying some yahoo to OPEN it for us. The restaurant wine list was dreadful, though, so I'm glad we took our own.
The night I broke my leg a few years ago, I'd had half a glass of this $85 bottle the host had saved just for me but I only had a sip or two before the "fall" and the medics wouldn't let me finish it...plus I am used to $60 Perrier-Jouet champagne. But this stuff was the first pricey California wine I'd had. ;-)
25304. judithathome - 5/9/2009 1:19:36 PM Ulgine, I know what you're talking about re: overweight people. Here in Texas, I see them daily...and if you want to really be depressed, drive by a place that serves buffet-style food any day at noon and you see people lined up to shovel in more food...all they can eat. I feel so sorry forthose who are ruining their knees, hips...even if they magically lost all that weight, the damage is already done.
I know people have a hard time losing weight because it took me a year or more to lose 45 pounds. But it CAN be done...and one way is to cut out half the bread and pasta they eat. Just that one thing can lead to a gradual reduction in weight and relieve the stress on those bones.
Not a starvation diet...just a small adjustment: one piece of toast instead of 2...half a bagel instead of one. And so on.
25305. judithathome - 5/10/2009 7:05:38 PM Happy Mother's Day to all the Motie moms and grandmoms.
I had a special treat today: the rose bush my son gave me for Mother's Day last year bloomed today...one perfect bloom. It was like he was saying "Hi, Mom!" 25306. arkymalarky - 5/10/2009 7:11:20 PM Oh, how wonderful! Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other Mote Moms!
Mose's gift to me was getting her master's Friday. 25307. judithathome - 5/11/2009 3:38:12 PM Oh. My. God! That is fantastic!!
Send her our congratulations! 25308. wabbit - 5/11/2009 4:04:57 PM Congratulations to Mose! And a belated Happy Mother's Day to all moms! 25309. arkymalarky - 5/11/2009 10:27:02 PM Thanks! I'll pass the word and suggest she come in and read for herself! 25310. iiibbb - 5/23/2009 1:56:08 AM yes, i'm still alive 25311. arkymalarky - 5/23/2009 3:29:13 AM Hey! Give us an update when you can! 25312. judithathome - 5/25/2009 2:33:38 PM Arky, did you get torrential rains late yesterday afternoon? We got some for about half an hour...the rain fell straight down and was so heavy, I couldn't see the house across the street. 25313. wabbit - 5/25/2009 2:47:29 PM Not in your neck of the woods, JaH, but we had some serious rain and hail here yesterday afternoon. It's beautiful today. 25314. judithathome - 5/25/2009 5:15:21 PM Same here...gorgeous.
I figured Keoni would hit the golf course at dawn but instead, he's immersed in yard work. He's just discovered the joys of "hard wood mulch". 25315. arkymalarky - 5/25/2009 5:47:06 PM Hey Judith!
We didn't get that kind of rain, but a soaking day-long one. The ground is already saturated from the past rains and mosquitoes are awful. We're hoping the girls may get to see an alligator because we heard on the news that all the rains have them in more places. Oh, and they caught a bear in a tree on Henderson's campus the other day! 25316. judithathome - 5/25/2009 7:16:08 PM Oh wow...that's amazing! I wonder if he used the bridge! ha! 25317. alistairconnor - 5/26/2009 5:09:41 PM Hot as hell over here, I decided we would go big on tomatoes. Haven't had a serious vegetable garden in a couple of years, for psychological reasons, and we're going for broke... clearing the weeds, planting and watering. Also capsicums, aubergines and melons. Nothing may come of it, for example if I'm not home often enough to water everything...
I'm thinking we'll have a heatwave something like 2003. 25318. arkymalarky - 5/26/2009 5:13:12 PM No gardens here yet, which is amazing, but it's been too wet to plant. 25319. arkymalarky - 5/27/2009 2:37:09 AM Hey, Judith, meant to tell you on the phone earlier that our latest Korean student is helping me take Mojo and Hobo to the vet this week. Wish us luck! 25320. iiibbb - 5/27/2009 4:31:40 AM So bizarre story... I actually know Sonia Sotomayor. She's a friend of my mother in law. I've had dinner with her twice. 25321. arkymalarky - 5/27/2009 5:55:13 AM How cool is that! Think she's a good pick? 25322. iiibbb - 5/27/2009 2:31:00 PM I've been to her apartment in NY too... I forgot about that.
I think she's good enough. Obviously pro-choice. I'm not sure where she stands on gun control. If she's much like my mother in law she's fine. All the judges I've met have been smart likable people.
From my exposure to the handful I've met (conservative and liberal), I've generally come to believe that the idea of an "activist" judge is fairly rare at that level. They certainly have their ideologies, but it's not executed the same way as it is in congress. The judges I have met are pretty careful thinkers, and most are at least open to ideas counter to their own views if it's a well-conceived argument... you might not change their minds, but they generally won't dismiss outright and more importantly they won't belittle their opponent... they find arguments interesting. It is a geek fest really. Based on the ones I have met at least.
Ironically, the Supreme court may be the last word, but they only hear a fraction of the cases the circuit appeals courts do. In a way she'll be losing some power.
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