Anybody Out There?

[vashti]

I always buy gifts for other people that I want for myself. Maybe part of me is hoping they will say "no thanks" and I will get to keep it!

I love homemade salsa...yummy! BUt you make your own chips, too? Wow - that really is impressive!!

I baked cookies pretty much all day yesterday, and I am staying out of the kitchen today. We'll be going out for Chinese tomorrow, but i will be cooking a big meal the following day. I cook for all the holidays since my family all lives out of state. Yes, I am a holiday orphan.

:-/

[misombra]

where does your fam live?

[vashti]

Oregon, Massachusetts and Northern California. I will get to see them all in March though for my daughter's Bat Mitzvah.

[misombra]

i wanna go to your daughters bat mitzvah.

[vashti]

It will be awesome. She is very smart and has fairly advanced thought processes about theology for a girl her age. I am really proud. We will be celebrating at Disneyland after her services rather than the traditional party (which I hate, by the way).

Anyway, I am teaching her some guitar chords over winter break...

[misombra]

you play the guitar? no freakin' way! you just get cooler and hotter by the second!

[vashti]

Haha - no! I only play well enough to impress children! I am self-taught, so I kind of suck.

[misombra]

just because you're self-taught doesn't mean you suck! many great guitarists were self-taught. like dick dale for instance, and others...