Getting my mojo back

After a pretty rocky start to the New Year with a bout of stomach flu and my mother being hospitalized for 5 days I am finally feeling myself again. Yesterday I was well enough to drive down to NY to have lunch with my mom. Instead of going out for lunch like we usually do, we stayed in and had bagels and lox and cheese blintzes with sour cream and cinnamon & sugar. That blintz was so good that it reminded me of Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. How could something so simple taste so good? The only thing that could have made it any better would have been raisins in with the cheese filling.

In the evening John took me out to dinner to the newly renamed Brushmill on the Falls (formerly Sage American Grill, formerly The Chart House) in Essex. The name has changed but the menu remains pretty much the same. This is a great place to go for lamb chops or prime rib and since I never get lamb at home, that's just what I ordered. I started with a bowl (actually a small cauldron) of onion soup and John had lobster bisque. The house salad is a wedge of iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing and chopped tomato. It was delicious but mine jumped off my plate and landed, dressing side down, on the tablecloth making a mess. My lamb chops were served with rice pilaf and asparagus and they were the tenderest, tastiest morsels of lamb that I have eaten. John had a slab of prime rib that was very tasty and much more than he could eat. We both brought home dinner for tonight. For dessert we shared an apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. It was a very satisfying meal in a beautiful setting.

Today, after returning John's jacket for the 4th time I got to work on some cards for a Cricut-scraplifters card swap. The only stipulation was that you had to use your Cricut, but the cards could be any theme. The first card I made was with the Wild Card cartridge and Everyday Paper Dolls. I used stamps by Peachy Keen and Hero Arts and a Scalloped Fiskers circle punch.

The last card was inspired by a video at www.mypinkstamper.com. It uses Walk in My Garden, Cuttlebug dotted swiss embossing folder, a Fiskers floral border punch, Hero Arts stamp and a pinking rotary blade. I love sunflowers.