The end of an era

The nunbun is no more. Yup, Nashville's famous nunbun pastry, a cinnamon roll that resembles Mother Teresa, was stolen on Christmas morning. The weird thing is (well, ok, maybe not weird, when you consider we are talking about baked goods resembling soon to be canonized legends!) is that I'd put visiting the nunbun on my list of things to do a few days ago when planning my trip this week to Nashville. Although it's been shellacked and on display at Bongo Java for almost 10 years and I've been to Bongo Java for coffee and concerts, I'd never bothered to go look at their most famous item. I'd just made a mental note to look at it when I dropped by for coffee. The police investigating the break-in classified the stolen property as "other". I'm guessing they should watch ebay. I guess I'll just have to settle for a nunbun t-shirt or coffee mug.

I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper...

Well it could have been better, but it did the job, this is my Diet Dr. Pepper cake, made for a going away party at work. The person who's leaving drinks Diet Dr. Pepper non-stop all day, so it was the first thing that sprang to mind when I was thinking of a cake to make.

What's in YOUR wallet?

Errr....sorry...too many viewings of those cute Capitol One commercials! What I meant to say was what's on your fridge door? Currently, aside from the usual real estate calendar magnets and Redskins schedules, I've got my "W" paperdoll magnet set and some De Grazia magnets. The paperdolls are self explanatory, but if you've never heard of De Grazia, then check out this incredible artist! His pictures of southwestern themes have were featured for years in "Arizona Highways" magazine and now you can even find high end figurines based on his paintings. One of these days I'll visit his museum out west.

God created laughter

I firmly believe that we Christians tend to forget that God invented humor and gave it to us as a great gift. I think He would chuckle at this Christmas card and I hope you get a laugh out of it too. Thanks to my friend, Sue, in the UK for sending this my way.

"'ello Princess"

A holiday nod to my favorite TV sudser, "Eastenders". I've watched it since it's beginning almost 20 years ago. When the local PBS station decided to pick up the British soap they printed a US-UK language glossary, afraid we wouldn't be able to understand the accents, lol. Over the years Cyndy and I have thrown things at the screen and booed and hissed at the antics of Dirty Den and the Mitchel brothers, laughed at Dot and Alfie, and rooted for true love with Sharon, Mark, Kath and all the others. I'm still boycotting BBC America over their decision a couple years ago to drop the show. As of now it's only available to American audiences who have a certain satellite service. I keep up on the storylines through the show's great website storyboards every Mon, Tue, Thu, and Fri. Farewell Nana Moon, welcome back Phil, and here's looking forward to another great year of storys with Ian, Pauline, Martin, Sonia, Charlie, Mo and all the other Albert Square residents!

Lights Brite

Tis' the season! Looking forward next week to what's become an annual tradition ... visiting Baltimore's famous 34th Street and it's incredible Christmas light displays! It has to be seen to be believed and every year we drive up there and join the seemingly endless procession of cars slowly rolling down the street. I can't imagine how the locals handle all the traffic, it seems it would be impossible to get in and out of your house this time of year.

Oh, jury duty update.. the trial is over and we convicted the two defendants on conspiracy to import and sell heroin, importing heroin, selling heroin and several communications technology charges. Interesting experience.

Gotcha!

I didn't knit it myself, but I'm going to enjoy wearing it. I saw this sweater on ebay and HAD to have it, it is so ME!!! Someone out there in ebayland isn't very happy cause I waited and watched them bid on it all day and then I swooped in and sniped it out from under them with a minute to go. All's fair in love and ebay!