Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Reasons to be cheerful

One
Yoga classes have started again! While I will never achieve the grace, serenity, and tanliness of my excellent teachers, Sandra and Leo, I have become somewhat bendier in the three years I've been attending. Plus, the warm glow of smug righteousness that comes from attending class on a Saturday morning feels very good! If you're in Amsterdam, check them out.

Two
Pizzas from da Portare Via on the Leliegracht! This tiny take-out joint has a proper wood-fired oven and makes the most fabulous thin-crust pizzas, with just the right amount of topping. We had them last night as the main component of the birthday dinner. Of course, they don't take PIN or telephone orders and they don't deliver, but they are well worth the wait.

Three
New content! Thanks to the inability of Dutch TV channels to properly schedule and show American series, we buy DVDs on Amazon.com and watch them on the big screen. We're currently halfway through CSI Season 5, Arrested Development Season 2 is ready to view, and today's shipment included Battlestar Galactica Season 2*, Family Guy Volume 3, and The Barchester Chronicles - starring Alan Rickman as the wonderfully smarmy Obidiah Slope. Yay!

And I've got one of the "eruptions of chocolate" I made yesterday left over - what more could a Norfolk Dumpling ask for?!

* ETA: Apparently it's Season 2 Part 1 - I really don't want to upset the geeks on this, hence the edit.

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