{"id":302,"date":"2008-12-28T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:37:06","slug":"christmas-like-i-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Christmas like I like it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh. A nice day spent with John with a good breakfast followed by mango mimosas and several episodes of “The Wire<\/a>.” Doesn’t get much better than that!<\/p>\n

Christmas Eve was a lot of fun, too. We left work around 2 PM and had about 15 people over to the house\u00a0for drinks and snacks. The last folks left around 8 PM – we had a really good time.<\/p>\n

The rest of our four-day weekend has been great. I stayed home on Friday while John had a quasi business meeting with an old friend from Mexico City who happened to be in town.<\/p>\n

Saturday, we drove to Las Cruces to go to the farmers market and used bookstore. It was cold! We drove home the back way and had a wonderful lunch at Chope’s<\/a>, a little dive between El Paso and Las Cruces.<\/p>\n

The work week was slow, which was nice for a change. John was visiting his friend Russ in Dallas last weekend, and flew home\u00a0Monday afternoon. During the day, I helped a newly-arrived ELO get settled in Juarez (his social sponsor had a family emergency and asked if I could help out).<\/p>\n

We are also happy to report that it looks like we have a new housekeeper, too, so life is good. Her dad is a long-time employee at the Consulate, and she’s working out well so far.<\/p>\n

We’ve watched several movies this week. While John was gone, I watched “No Reservations<\/a>” and “Blame it on Rio<\/a>” – both very silly. John and I watched “Hancock<\/a>” and “The Dark Knight<\/a>.” (Pass on “Hancock” – thumbs up for “The Dark Knight.”) And\u00a0I can’t wait to start Season 3 of “The Wire”!<\/p>\n

I finished reading Ruth Riechl’s <\/a>“Garlic and Sapphires<\/a>,” that my manager loaned to me. It makes me want\u00a0to re-read her “Tender at the Bone<\/a>.” She was the food critic for the NY Times<\/em> during the ’90s and is now the editor at Gourmet<\/em> magazine\u00a0– “Garlic and Sapphires<\/span>” focused on her tenure at the Times<\/em>. “Tender at the Bone<\/span>” was more about her life growing up with a mentally-ill mother who used to serve spoiled food to guests – very good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh. A nice day spent with John with a good breakfast followed by mango mimosas and several episodes of “The Wire.” Doesn’t get much better than that! Christmas Eve was a lot of fun, too. We left work around 2 PM and had about 15 people over to the house\u00a0for drinks and snacks. The last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}