It Was a Very Good Candlemas

I should have held off on posting Tiffy’s candle pictures until yesterday, for Candlemas. I had a good Candlemas: Light Bright and I left work early, then I went to Mass, where I was handed a lighted candle, and then I slid into the same pew as Richard Bonomo. When we all blew out our candles before the first reading, Rich’s was glued to his finger by melted wax so I was trying very hard not to laugh. Then Rich, Luxuli, her husband, and I went out to eat and that was even funnier.

Luxuli told us that, for women, looking at real estate listings online gives them the same pleasure as men derive from looking at porn online. I just about choked on my gnocchi because my office mate, Light Bright, spends a lot of time at work looking at real estate listings since she is supposedly looking for a house. Hmm… She and our female boss have even discussed house listings. Can you imagine if two men discussed porn at work?? When I told Light Bright about this, she thought it was pretty hilarious, but she said she finds looking at real estate listings more annoying than pleasurable. Then again, she was happy to find out her name on my blog and apparently detected no insult in it, which just goes to show what an appropriate name it is for her.

Speaking of gnocchi, Luxuli called it "little potato balls" so we were joking that she would make it by using a melon ball scoop on a potato.  OK, maybe that's not that funny now, but trust me, it was at the time.

Luxuli asked me toward the end of dinner if I had noticed a change in her mood during the meal, and I said no. She launched into a story about how she is trying to decide between finishing her Master’s degree in mathematics or taking art classes, because some people have been saying she should teach math, and others say she is gifted in art, and- “Wait a second,” I said, “I’m confused. What has that got to do with your mood during dinner?” “I’m getting there,” she said, and her husband said, “She will get there… eventually. Have you ever read The Odyssey?” I said that was so funny I had to put it on the blog – and there it is!

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Port Party (Red AND White)

Here are some photos I took of Tiffy's ultra-cool "infinity" candle holder.  It just looks like an aquarium with a row of candles in it until you light it... and then look at it!

Candles to infinity!  (And beyond, to quote Buzz Lightyear.)  Here I took a close-up shot of it, and you can see my camera reflected in it, as if it were sitting atop a pyramid of candles:

And this is a distance shot to show the cool shadows it casts.  Tiffy has some tall dracaenae, and their shadows look like palm trees on the ceiling.  Check it out.

That was last Saturday.  Today I met Anna Banana II, Jilly Moose, and OK Cap at a diner for breakfast, and then we went to a nearby winery for their big port celebration.  We tasted lots of wines, and the white port was AMAZING, but it was also $22 per bottle.  For $23 I got a bottle of beaujolais (is that like French for "beautiful pretty"?), a bottle of white riesling, and a bottle of their signature white wine.  We took the free tour, and I was amused to find out that apparently at a winery, red tape actually helps make things more efficient.  Don't believe me?  Check out this sign:

Afterwards we returned to the diner, since our cars were parked there (OK Cap was so kind as to drive to the winery), and we had some Packer Pie!!  Yum!  It was lemon and lime silk pie in layers, pretty AND delicious!

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