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My kitchen smells so good right now, even though the only thing cooking is spinach. I have chopped fresh mint, dill, parsley and scallions sitting on the counter for the casserole I'm making and it smells really good. I'm also making latkes (potato, and possibly curried sweet potato also if I'm super-motivated).

I've used two days of my 3-day guest pass at Kelly's foofy all-women gym, but I don't know if I'm going to have time to go today between cooking. I think my new year's resolution is going to be to go to the gym 100 times next year. That's twice a week for the whole year, or twice a day for November and December (excluding holidays) if I slack off about it early on. Last week, I reached a point where I'd been idle for way too long because of basketball scheduling issues and it was starting to drive me nuts.

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Our little dinner party went well, even though one of the guests almost forgot to show up. I nearly made a mess of the potato latke frying, so Kelly took over that part of the project. Since I didn't let her measure the ingredients, they didn't come out like cake.

We've managed to schedule things so that someone's coming over for dinner every few days. With luck, this will encourage us to keep the living room clean enough that we won't have much work to do before our New Year's Eve party.