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Haute Hospital Gowns

Have you heard the latest?  Diane von Furstenberg has designed a line of hospital gowns for the Cleveland Clinic.  This is to replace their old style of gowns, which were described as “oversized bed sheets with shoe laces”.  While still not exactly runway ready, I think the idea’s pretty fun… Apparently, the gowns have more [...]

Posted 08 September 2010 § Clothing ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

New Zealand is a Small Country in a Big World

I know that the New Zealand earthquake has probably slipped off most media radar, but please keep people in your prayers.  The state of emergency for Canterbury has been extended another 7 days, and some of the aftershocks are stronger than many earthquakes. Just to put things in perspective – the earthquake in Haiti was [...]

Posted 08 September 2010 § New Zealand ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , ,

When Good Carrot Cake Goes Green {It’s the Baking Soda, Stupid!}

Shortly after coming to New Zealand, I noticed something.  There seemed to be a lot of carrot cake – in coffee shops, at restaurants, served at get-togethers, at the hospital cafeteria… you get the idea.  Not surprisingly, I found myself dreaming about cream cheese frosting and nutty, delicious baked goods.   When I mentioned this to [...]

Posted 07 September 2010 § Baking § Cakes § Cooking § Food § Recipes ‡ Comments (12) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Window Washers

Menu Monday is on hiatus this week.  In the meantime, I’ll share the following with you… You never know what you’ll see when you look out your window!

Posted 06 September 2010 § Photos § Pictures ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged: ,

Earthquake in New Zealand

As some of you know, a 7.1 earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, with the effects felt throughout the South Island and in some southern parts of the North Island.  I’ve gotten several emails from people checking on us, so I thought I’d do a quick post to let people know that we’re OK!  We live [...]

Posted 04 September 2010 § New Zealand ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: , ,

Waiheke Island

Chris and I finally took our trip to Waiheke Island.  Rather than making an overnight of it, we decided to just go for the day and save the extended trip for another time. We started out by walking to the Auckland Ferry Building.  We purchased our tickets and waited for the ferry to arrive. We [...]

Posted 03 September 2010 § Auckland § New Zealand § Photos § Reviews § Travel § Waiheke Island § Wine ‡ Comments (16) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

September = Spring in New Zealand, Plus a New Stylist

I am so happy that it’s Spring over here!  I know that many of my friends back in the States are lamenting the end of summer {or rejoicing in the upcoming coolness of Fall}, but I cannot tell you how nice it is to be able to walk to work and see the sun coming [...]

Posted 02 September 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: , , ,

Why Absent-Minded Professors Shouldn’t Cook

Remember yesterday how I told you we’d be having Southwest Pasta Bake on Monday night?  I generally try to make stuff in advance when I’m working, so I was planning to make this Sunday afternoon.  However, I was volunteering on Sunday morning and Chris had said he’d be happy to cook a meal sometime.  So [...]

Posted 31 August 2010 § Absent-Minded Professor § Chris § Cooking § Funny ‡ Comments (20) °

Menu Monday

Chris has made a request for more veggie casseroles, as we seem to have been eating a lot of pasta lately.  I agree.  Unfortunately, he told me this after I’d already planned on making a yummy-looking recipe that I’d heard about via The Farmer and the Southern Belle, so he’ll have to wait just a [...]

Posted 30 August 2010 § Menu Monday § Recipes ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Fatso.co.nz (I miss Netflix!)

Chris and I aren’t big TV watchers*.  Don’t read anything judgmental into that – if you want to watch TV, go for it.  I just get bored easily and would rather not pay for a service that, for the most part, I won’t use. We do like to watch movies and some TV series on [...]

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Posted 27 August 2010 § Movies § New Zealand § Reviews § TV ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , , ,