Today With Patty – May 7, 2007

by Patty

I have a group that I belong to called the Suppa Club. We have four couples that take turns hosting each other for dinner, and my turn is in June. We are competitive. Last time I brought the wine back from South Africa for the meal. I have been bringing in the results of the rejected recipes for the office to enjoy. Last week it was a pineapple pecan green pepper and scallions dip that actually everyone liked, so I am going to keep it. Today was a ricotta cheesecake. That did not pass muster. I am looking for a good ricotta or mascarpone cheesecake recipe to serve with pistachio ice cream. Any suggestions?

Beth, our office manager, has an office supply fetish. She has never met an office supply she did not like, and she loves to spend money on office supplies. So today Office Depot delivered a big box full of supplies. Why, you ask, do we need more office supplies when we have $10 million already? Because Beth and Kipp found out that if you buy $100 of office supplies, you get a free cold drink refrigerator that looks like it can hold six cans. Why we need all this is beyond me, but apparently we have it, and Beth was like a 6-year-old on Christmas morning as she opened up her box of office supplies, showing me her rulers and staplers. Oh no – they sent us a new catalog! Now she wants to spend $100 so we can get a free paper shredder – never mind that we have two already.

I cannot believe that my trip to Scotland is two weeks away. I am so not ready. I am beginning to stress. My mother gets here in a week – and I am not ready for that either – and my Aunt Vivian is coming with her so that my husband and I can take the two of them to Scotland with us. So we will be dragging the old crones around from distillery to distillery, and since we are all Irish (with the exception of John), that will not be a problem.

I went to the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts Friday night to see Legends! starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans from Dynasty, which I have never seen. Of course, I have never seen Dallas either. So … I am not going to say anything about it, because my mother taught me if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all.

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