Go together well

When we first started dating, Chris and I sat in a tetería (tea house) in Granada with our friend Andy and wrote out our top ten lists--it was a very fun activity, especially when we were first getting to know each other. We often refer to things as being "top ten," as in: "oh my gosh, this ice cream is so good--it's definitely top ten." I occasionally come across the lists that we made in my cute little Jordi Labanda notebook  from El Corte Inglés , and it's so fun to have that glimpse at what made us happiest back in October 2006 (I can't remember exactly what I wrote, but I know that mashed potatoes were fairly high on Chris's list at the time).  Yesterday, Chris was chatting with a friend who was having a rough week, and he recommended that she write a top ten list as a way of taking her mind off all the things that were going badly and instead thinking about what makes her happy in life. We're both big proponents of making top ten lists--...

We got back to Baltimore late last night after a lovely weekend in Chicago, during which time we got to see lots of family and friends and to celebrate the baptism of a very sweet baby boy! {GP3 and "the Godfather"} We enjoyed too much good food (as we usually do when we go to Chicago), including wine and cheese at Bar Pastoral  (the cheese menu contained vivid descriptors like "curd-sey" and "squidgy"), tropical drinks (the "Dr. Fong") with Chinese food at Chef Shangri-La , and a cauliflower melt at the Marion Street Cheese Market . After such a food-filled weekend, I think we'll be eating salad for a few days! Regarding Earth Day: we did one of the worst things a person could do on Earth Day--we rode in an airplane. One of my greatest hopes is for someone to invent a solar-powered airplane that can fly as fast and carry as many passengers as a 747...because I love doing things to reduce my carbon footprint , but I also love to trave...