1. This afternoon, Carol and Paul hosted Family Dinner, which was really Birthday Dinner for Christy, two days before her actual birthday. We visited in the living room for a while and enjoyed a shrimp cocktail appetizer with an adult Shirley Temple. Paul broiled New York Loin (bone-in) steaks, Debbie baked us each a potato, Molly brought a green salad, and Carol made her current version of Mom's bleu cheese dressing, patterned after the Sunshine Inn's roquefort dressing. Christy asked for a pie rather than a cake and Carol baked a cherry pie fashioned after the Old Fashioned cocktail -- so it was an Old Fashioned cherry pie.
For quite a while, we had movie talk at the dinner table, prompted in part by Molly and Brian's ongoing dive into movies featuring Nicholas Cage.
2. Christy opened gifts. She and Carol and others begin each year by choosing a word to focus on. Carol's word this year is PURGE. Christy has chosen a phrase that includes the word LIGHT. Those who participate in this venture also create vision boards. Christy told us about her plans to go in a different direction with photographs, a perfect way to work with LIGHT.
3. I took a day off from the Fitness Center today and rested my legs. I tried to keep my mind fit by working for a couple of hours or so on the NYTimes Sunday crossword puzzle and I succeeded in finishing it with help a couple of times from the World Wide Web.
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