The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Apr 7, 2006 in dish | 0 comments It’s Masters weekend, so all the more fitting to choose a couple of my favorite golfers for this week’s list.BED LIST: FRED COUPLESMy inner geek gets all tingly during golf tournaments, especially when sweet-swinging Freddy Couples is on the leaderboard. I cannot say why he rings my bell, but he does. Maybe it’s because he’s well-known in the golf world for his lovely...
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Where Have All the Parents Gone?

Posted by on Apr 2, 2006 in dish | 1 comment DH and I aren’t perfect parents–heck, he was in the Mega-Lo-Mart at 10:30 tonight buying kites for the kids to use during Kite Week this week–but at least his kids were home in bed. He came home incredulous at the number of kids with their parents in the Mega-Lo-Mart at 10:30 on a Sunday night.Hello? Do the words SCHOOL NIGHT not mean what they used to when I was a kid? Dang,...
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Mar 31, 2006 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: CARY ELWESI don’t care how many villains he might choose to play–for me, Cary Elwes will always be Westley. “A farm boy, poor and perfect, with eyes like the sea after a storm.” I mean, really; no normal woman would turn down someone this good looking, especially when he’s staring you in the face and uttering the words “As you wish.”DINNER...
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Yep, Still Blind

Posted by on Mar 27, 2006 in dish | 0 comments So I go to the eye doctor today and find out that, surprisingly, I’m not as blind as I feared. In fact, my eyes are getting better. It’s probably the calm before the storm, as my husband and friends who are doing the hold-the-page-at-arms’-length thing will attest, but it was a nice perk anyway. New contacts are great–no more blinking and dryness, slightly sharper vision....
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The Bed List/The Dinner List

Posted by on Mar 24, 2006 in dish | 0 comments BED LIST: DIERKS BENTLEYDierks Bentley is just adorable. He’s definitely on the “cute” end of the spectrum rather than the “hot” end, but who wouldn’t love a giggle or two whilst rolling in the hay? Plus, he’s a curly. I’m a curly. We could connect on a primal level right there (trust me, you folks with straight hair have no earthly idea what...
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Books and Cooks: The Secret Life of Bees

Posted by on Mar 22, 2006 in dish | 0 comments Swinging back to the South again for this month’s selection.WE’RE READING: I’M SERVING: MACARONI AND CHEESEReading this book is like peeking into my past: South Carolina setting, family issues, search for self, African-American women. Sue Monk Kidd does a great job on place, for a Georgian. She’s definitely driven down I-85 past Greer, SC, the home of the giant...
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