Sep 4 2006
Labour

It’s Labour Day and Alison celebrates that by going in to work. She has a presentation tomorrow and needed to get all her data ready.
It’s 2:00 AM in the morning now and she’s still not home. I’m going to bed.
[Update: The meeting of the presentation was postponed to Friday, the day Alison would have taken off to compensate for working on Labour Day. This makes the whole thing even more silly.]



Sep 5 2006
Nostalgia
Sunday, Alison and I did a quiz from the book “The seven principles for making marriage work” (It’s written by John Gottman, who is also featured in Malcom Gladwell’s book “Blink”.)
It was a simple questionnaire about what you know about your partner’s preferences/likes/dislikes et cetera. One of the questions was “What is your partner’s favourite dessert?”. I answered “CrËme brulée” (that was easy), but Alison couldn’t name my favourite dessert. I couldn’t name it either, because I like a lot of desserts, but decided finally on the Dutch “Griesmeelpudding met bessensap”. Of course that’s just a bout of nostalgia, because my mother never made it and I only got it when I stayed at an aunt. But I remember I fondly liked it there.
But nevertheless, today Alison surprised me by making “Griesmeelpudding met bessensap” the North-American way: Semolina Pudding with Currant Sauce. It tasted pretty yummy, only the “bessensap” was a bit too sweet to my taste.
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