Celebrating Friday afternoon

It's been a long but relatively good week in Kidneyland.

Vardagslyx*

The Brother made dinner tonight...and his creation apparently merited some bubbly.

*vardag = weekday; lyx = luxury

Have just spent the last 3 hours in the kitchen

Made pasta salad for lunch tomorrow and on Tuesday.

Also made two types of savory muffins, pizza and bacon, to snack on. The Muffins book was a present from my Secret Santa (Thanks!) and I've been meaning to try out some of the recipes.

BTW, Advanced Happy Birthday C! Hope you'll have a great day!

Hi Blog! It's been awhile.

Today is International Women's Day and Semla Day (thus the semla on my tray). Some newspaper ad would also have me believe it's Pancake Day.

Arrived early for my 0815 class this morning...wonder of wonders! The seminar that followed finished early, so I got a long lunch and headed over to one of the few food chains in the area.

Let's talk about hair

As a kid, I was somewhat envious of some of the kids at school who had complicated hairstyles day in and day out. I think the most advanced one my mom and aunt could manage was a ponytail and a plain braid respectively, but I love them heaps just the same. :p

Anyway, left to my own devices, it took years for little Eina to realize that you were supposed to comb your hair. Ha, imagine that! I could have been the Tangled poster child.

Also, I have stubborn, uncooperative hair. I was once forced to return a hairstyling set I'd ordered over the home shopping channel because my hair refused to hold a curl no matter how long I kept it twirled around the curling iron or how much ozone damage I caused with the hairspray.

Anyway, long story short...tried my hand at a French braid tonight. It could be neater, but it's passable. As Kai-Lan has taught us, "you'll get better if you try, try, try."

P.S. I got my hair permed 2 or 3 times while in elementary school because of Andrea Zuckerman from the original 90210.