Not much going on these days. Winter slows me down and I compensate with lots of movies, books, house work and dinners with friends and family. I also use this time to plot out my Spring and Summer.

I eagerly await sitting outside for open air concerts, not wearing a coat, not having to scrape windshields, riding my bike, camping, eating outside with the sun setting later in the day, and gardening.

Here is a super cute website that tells you how long to cook an egg, based on its size, temperature and how well you want it done. You can even set a timer.

Bitchscopes says this about all Capricorns:

You are naturally cold-hearted so don’t really need to try, but you still always do your best not to let silly feelings or emotions cloud that important issue, money. If something serves no material purpose you eliminate it from your life, so Fido is encouraged to play with the traffic once veterinary bills start to figure and Grandma is away to the old folks home once her will is rewritten in your favour. Friends are superfluous unless they pay you, assist your aims or give you something for free. Obviously you don’t have many of them, but then again, why would you care?

I feel bad for Pisces, too.

I love fridge surprises. They don't happen often but occasionally I open the ice box and voile- magic! My mom left seaweed salad when last she was here and it became today's lunch. I paired it up with sesame crackers and sardines. The salad had delicious salty, cartilage-like texture.

These are recipes that seem like they're close to what I ate:
Easy to make seaweed salad.
Seaweed salad via Epicurious.

I read this list "The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down" and it sparks my imagination. Each item on the list is a link to a page that further explains how to accomplish the slowing down. I dig it.

Besides affirming "Eliminate something", I like "Make out-of-the-ordinary Pancakes" and "Spruce up your home at least once a year".

If you're anything like me, you feel the push of got-tos and supposed-tos. Websites like this affirm our lives can be made richer and smoother (like coffee, haha) when we focus on what's important.

Those one-pot sample packets of coffee are called pillows.

Thanks friends, family, countrymen, for making this day very special. You know how to make a girl feel valued. I hope to adequately forward that feeling on to others.

She put together an early birthday party for me. I love her.