A friend is a winemaker, Kat, for the last 5 years, but he's going out of business. So he was selling off his inventory: pinots, zinfandels, a nice pinot/zin/syrah blend, syrah, and chardonnays.

I got a case each of pinot, zin, syrah, and the blend, which is lovely red table wine.

ooh! that sounds like a good deal of yumminess...

I suspect there won't be much left, frankly.

Oh well. Probably better for the pocket book that way.

I heard a woman calling across the subway station to "Padme" today. I shit you not.

I heard a woman calling across the subway station to "Padme" today

The new baby Princess of Norway is named Leah, and HRH Mom fully admits that she was named after Princess Leia (though I wonder how long it took them to talk her into a more traditional spelling).

Padme is apparently Sanskrit for lotus, and part of a Buddhist chant ("Om Mani Padme Hum," "the jewel is in the lotus") so I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few Padmes running around entirely unrelated to Star Wars (and by now heartily sick of it, poor things).

It seems unlikely to me that this particular woman knows much Sansrit, but maybe she was calling to her friend-with-hippy-parents, not her five year old. (I didn't see who she was talking to.)

Well, at least you didn't hear anyone calling for "R2."

Everyone sounds like they had great days. I ran a couple of errands and got sweaty yucky and only got half of what I needed. ah well. Also watered the plants in the flowerbeds I cleaned up and did a little more housework. But mostly what I've done it watch TV and eat.

I've been trying to eat healthy and eat smaller meals more often, but I am just staying hungry, I don't get it. So far today I have had:

cranberry juice & nutritional supplement mix
yogurt & strawberries
1/2 cup of red beans with seasonings
a salad plate full of mixed greens and tomatoes with dressing
a turkey burger patty with a little spinach dip on it
a kiwi
1 cup of shrimp & feta cheese salad
plus 2 tall glasses of iced herb tea & 6 8oz glasses of water.

I still need to have dinner, but the smoothie with protein mix that I was planning doesn't sound filling to me. A chicken sandwich from McDs, does.

hmm, also a grocery store that is a good walk from my house has cherries on sale for $1.49/lb and I think I need to go get a couple of bags. I managed to find strawberries and blueberries on sale already this week.

Well, at least you didn't hear anyone calling for "R2."

My friend's cousin is called R2, but he's Rudy, Jr. But still.