Bday Giftie from Natalia!

Look what I got in the mail!

BONUS! Cards from Bishop, Anne, and Mum:

(Ha! The Queen Elizabeth card is the same one that Bish gave me last year.)

Birthday Message from Donna

I'm so glad I have this sweet message from Donna that she left for me on May 25th, 2013.

From China!

What a wonderful postie!! This one tells me that the sender, Jade, read my little profile and wrote me something specific, unlike my last postcard. I may keep going with Postcrossing after all. (sidebar: her handwriting is gorgeous!)

Dear Lisa,

Greetings from China! I'm a girl, working at bank. My work is so busy. So I cherish leisure time. Like you, I also like reading books, having a trip. Once I find a vegetarian restaurant and go there with my boyfriend. We all think it's an amazing experience. We want try again!

Jade 

2024. 5.4

Decisions, Decisions

I love these posts on IG, although I am fairly certain that all of the photos are CGI/AI/phony. Still, this one had me stumped as to which one I would actually choose...

(3, 8, 10, and 12 were the favourites, but in the end, I would choose the third home. It's small, seems to have a decent yard, a lovely front step, and NO shutters. I really liked eight, but the fake shutters were the deal breaker. )

Cwood with Bish

On April 13th Bishop and I met up in Collingswood to have lunch at one of our fave spots - Healthy Garden. We rounded the corner from the parky lot out to the main drag and GASP! Healthy Garden was closed for good. Thankfully Collingswood is lousy with restaurants and we found a Mexican joint called La Catrina. (The food was super yummy, by the way.) Then I said that I wanted to pop in to a new-ish book shop that was all romance. The name? Kiss & Tale. Adorable. He rolled his eyes til he looked like Little Orphan Annie but obliged and stepped in to the pink wonderland of a shop. I wasn't planning to buy anything, and I didn't, but just wanted to check the place out. Bishop was all snarky about a store full of nothing but romance novels until he spotted the LGBTQ section. Uh-huh. My brother-from-another-mother found and purchased a book about a gay Black couple and then proceeded to gab with the (owners?) gals at the checkout. He went on about how he used to love to read his mother's copies of Jackie Collins novels. Boy, did we feel old when the two young whippersnappers asked if Jackie Collins was a local writer. Oy vey.... But they were absolutely wonderful and warm and sadly, the exact opposite of the employees at Ida's Bookshop, which is no longer in Collingswood. Farewell to you, Ida's, and hello to Kiss & Tale!

Strawberry Chocolate Popcorn

Last February I discovered and instantly became obsessed with this delicious Trader Joe’s snack. There was a week where I ate a bag a day. It's a serious addiction. Corinna, the checkout gal who I love, said that when they came back in stock this year that she instantly thought of me.

Vicious

It's been years since I last watched this series starring Ian McKellan and Derek Jacobi. They play long-time partners who seem to think they are in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, as they are constantly at each other's throat. Jacobi is one of my absolute favourite actors of all time and while Vicious isn't art, it is light and fun and the barbs that these two greats trade with one another is too funny for words.