I worked a season in an apple orchard. I am a total apple snob.

I love Ida Reds, Macs and Cortlands.

Me, too!

I prefer the softer apples for snacking but they have short shelf life--Paula Reds are awesome but have a really short season.

I think Galas are my favorite.

Me too, erika. That's what we get all the time at this point.

I had leftovers from last night for dinner -- lentil and mushroom stew over mashed cauliflower and potatoes, with a side of braised chard. I'm pondering a clementine for dessert. (And I had a banana at breakfast, and lunch was a salad and blueberries, so I think I'll be somewhere around 7 fruit and vegetable servings by the time today is over. Woo!)

Doubling back to a previous conversation about lipstick: both "Bruised" and "Almost Black" by NYX are too brown for me. (My order just arrived in the mail.) Back to finding people who want to swap for tubes of Chanel Vamp.

I don't think I have a preference for apples. I used to love granny smith apples, but the astringency hurts my teeth, so I have to slice them to eat them.

I got some stuff done - finally a few more thigs I must do. Wednesday may be busier than planed.

So Not sure how I am going to deal with full time again

Jesse, do you remember what year your Holiday party was where you had the foam snowflake ornaments to make? I think this was the Apt. on the UWS on the Ave. not the row-building on the St.

mac gave up on decorating the tree about halfway through.

I am thinking seriously about putting up the silver aluminum tree also. I really like my artificial tree, but I think I could go a foot taller and quite a bit fuller. So maybe we can buy something on after-Christmas sales.

OMG, am all exhausted. I worked hard all day doing this last minute thing that I should've been doing all along for the last few months (basically, sending in a log of all my calls and emails with people). Had to race to beat the UPS deadline, and then remembered I hadn't mailed my mortgage payment, and had to race over to the post office too! Now I'm wiped.

Granny Smiths are pretty much the only apple I particularly like.

Have people here heard of/eaten Chicken French? Someone told me that it was a Rochester specific recipe (like white hots), but that seems odd to me.

I've never heard of either of those things.

Went to college in Rochester, heard of white hots, but never heard of Chicken French.