Happy New Year!

I can't believe another year is gone. The older I get, the faster they come. This is the year I finally graduate; that I'm really looking forward to. Taking the bar exam, not so much. Well, Nissa and I wish you all the best in 2009.

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Here's something off the request line from Liberty Island. We're gonna squeeze some New Year's juice from ya, Big Apple!
- Ghostbusters

Recipes

It's that time of year when we all start thinking of resolutions for the new year. One I'm hoping to keep is to do a lot more cooking now that clinics are winding down so I'm looking for recipes! I know you all have some favorites and if you could email me a few I'd love it becuase I want to try new things. Jenan, I know you are a magic wonder in the kitchen; see if you can't write a recipe for one of your masterpieces for me. ;-) Anyway, I hope you are all still enjoying some time off and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

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I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.
- Julia Child

Happy Holidays

Nissa and I want to wish everyone the best this season and a great New Year!



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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
- Dave Barry

Good Food, Good Movie, Good Friends

With Ithaca closing up for the holidays, three of us were still left in the winter wonderland. So we headed down to Wegman's for pasta, got the ingredients for an amazing guacamole and settled in to watch Mamma Mia! while we dined. Laura and Kaitlin made some of the best guacamole I've had (see for recipe). Yum.



Well, I think I've caught up. Nothing like a last minute push to pull it all together for the holidays. I wish you all the best during this season.

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Donna: [about the possible dads] I have brought this all on myself because I was a stupid, reckless little slut!
Tanya: Don't you sound like your mother!
- Mamma Mia!

Ice Storm

So in the last week and half the northeast has been repeatedly slammed with storms. Leading it off was a snow and ice storm that lasted about 24 hours. I got to drive in it and a 3 hour drive turned into an almost 6 hour drive. However, the results were beautiful. The next morning, while I walked Nissa & Rip, I heard more then a dozen trees come crashing down in a thunderous roar. Mother nature is on a rampage, hopefully we'll learn to listen.




















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You know what the good thing is about this weather? You can see your breath; that way you know your still breathing.
- Alex Debogorski, Ice Road Truckers

NAVLE

Evil test. I took it on 12/8 and will be repeating it in the spring since I couldn't study this semester. Ugh, 7 hour exams should be outlawed. Guess it was good prep for the bar I have to take this summer which will be 3 days of joyous test taking. Thanks to Holly for being such a great travel buddy for the exam; at least the ride was fun.

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For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
- Benjamin Jeremy Stein

Bond & Friends

Right before Thanksgiving I headed to Albany, just in time for the new James Bond movie. Love the new bond. Yes, he's darker and more brooding, but when you kill that often brooding might be more realistic. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention, he's HOT. But what fun is enjoying that view without girlfriends, so too of my high school buddies waited to see the movie until I got home. We grabbed dinner before to catch up. It's always great to see those who know you when you were young and foolish, anything goes. Here they are looking beautiful:





The next night Liz came over with her pup for dinner with my family. I love having extra puppies running around. It was great to hang out with Liz. I got spoiled seeing her all the time before her wedding and have been having Liz withdrawal since then. Of course I had to take pictures of the puppies; Liz has been fully converted to a dog lover.







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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alive Too

So I read Jen's Alive post and understood exactly. It's the reason I haven't been posting so I've decided to do catchup on some fun things that occurred over the past few weeks of my life and skip the rest. Look for pictures and stories over the next week of visits with high school buddies, James Bond moments, survival of a seven hour exam, and a Thanksgiving with 14 people and 7 dogs (I think it might need more dogs). Hopefully I'll get all caught up before Christmas.

Finally, I just want to say that I really appreciate all the great people in my life - friends and family - and I wish I kept in better contact with all of you. None of you are ever far from my thoughts though and I love having you in my life. Thank you.

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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Ahbez