Papaya Mom

and get Invisalign Braces! I’ve got some teeth tipping in at the middle of my lower mouth and a bit of crowding at the front, nothing that 20 weeks of braces can’t fix! I’m excited as the tipping teeth had me a bit worried, although it seems to be genetic, it is nice to know I can fix them! Maybe when it’s all over, out of my own pocket of course because United Concordia sucks, I’ll spring for some teeth whitening to take care of those years of smoking in my youth….

In other news, Papaya had her check up today and is 32 inches tall, 24 pounds and 9 ounces and healthy as a one-year-old drama queen!

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Tonight’s dinner:
From The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook

Although this elegant dish is low on calories, the melted Brie-and-onion combination creates a rich-tasting, butter consistency.

1 teaspoon olive oil, divided
1 1/2 cups sliced onion
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2/3 cup dry white wine, divided
2 ounces Brie or Camembert cheese, rind removed and cut into small pieces (about 2 tablespoons)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
4 (4-ounce) skinned, boned chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons minced onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh or 3/4 teaspoon dried rubbed sage
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 (10 1/2-ounce) can low-salt chicken broth
Sage sprigs (optional)

Heat 1/2 teaspoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add sliced onion; sauté 30 minutes or until golden brown. Add sliced garlic; sauté 5 minutes. Stir in 1/3 cup wine; cook 5 minutes or until liquid almost evaporates. Spoon onion mixture into a bowl; let cool. Stir in Brie, salt, and pepper.

Cut a horizontal slit through the thickest portion of each chicken breast half to form a pocket. Stuff about 1 1/2 tablespoons of the onion mixture into each pocket.

Heat 1/2 teaspoon oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; sauté 6 minutes on each side or until chicken is done. Remove chicken from skillet. Set aside; keep warm.

Add 1/3 cup wine, minced onion, sage, and minced garlic to skillet. Cook over medium-high heat for 2 minutes. Stir in broth. Bring to a boil, and cook 7 minutes or until reduced to 3/4 cup. Return chicken to skillet; cover and simmer 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Serve sauce with chicken. Garnish with fresh sage, if desired.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 chicken breast half and 3 tablespoons sauce)

NUTRITION PER SERVING
CALORIES 220(29% from fat); FAT 7.1g (sat 3.2g,mono 2.5g,poly 0.7g); PROTEIN 30.8g; CHOLESTEROL 80mg; CALCIUM 62mg; SODIUM 263mg; FIBER 1g; IRON 1.6mg; CARBOHYDRATE 7.1g

As a side dish I diced a potato and four sunchokes and roasted at 450 degrees for about 30 minutes (tossed in olive oil, salt, and pepper). Darn this was a good side dish.

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Per Annika’s blog which inspired this fun…

Instructions: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Events
-1944 The Battle of the Bulge
-1989 Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceau?escu’s Communist dictatorship.
-2001 Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, is born.

Births (human)
-1949 The Bee Gee Twins (the brothers Gibb)
-1962 Ralph Finnes

Death
-1943 Beatrix Potter (of Peter Rabbit fame)

Okay, but I’m going to go on. My birthday is on the Winter solstice, it’s the first day for Capricorn and the first day of Winter. I was born early, my Grandpa drove my Mom to the hospital whilst my father was out buying cigars for the gardener. My Dad did make it there for my birth via c-section.

Events, why I chose them.
The Battle of the Bulge, a historical event I know nothing about yet I use this all the time when referring to my arse.
Romania - I remember watching it on the news.
Cc the cat, um, how cool is that? I share a birthday with the 2nd cat to be born of this DNA. Now, if we could just clone bunnies who would clean my house for me..

Births
I’m counting the Bee Gee boys as one, the Mom was in labor once and got two kids out of it. I doubt it was easy, more power to her.
Ralph Finnes, yummy.

Death
Beatrix Potter, the kind of writer many of us hope to be. One who’s words are loved and connect people to a time in their life. And, I’m all about reading to Papaya of late and this reminds me of another book she’ll need to know by heart.

Papaya’s:

Events:
- The first day of Aquarius, I start Capricorn and she starts the next one, Aquaruis!
- 1920 ACLU Founded!
- A lot of Presidents were inagurated, a lot.

Births
- 1920 Fredrico Fallini
- 1956 Bill Maher

Death
- 1993 Audrey Hepburn

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On the 24th of last month I ordered A LOT of furniture from Ikea…

Love Seat
Two matching Chairs
Two Poang Chairs
Two Poang Foot Stools
Some Art
Bar Stools

I’ve been calling and emailing regarding the status of my order.

I finally got a (friendly) human on the phone today only to find out that a mistake in the system had cancelled my order.

Grrrreeeaaaattt now I get to wait until 29 April for delivery of my stuff.

I’m so pissed my face is red. And of course, Adventure Dad is working late tonight.

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On Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won’t ever happen again.

You may now return to your normal stuff

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