meisa's lagoon

so i'm back from 5 days of relaxation, a veritable cornucopia of naps, food, and family. these were the highlights, in no particular order.

1) learned how to make loo-bi-yah polo (an iranian rice dish with a tomato base, beef, and green beans)
2) witnessed my first turduchin (a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey)
3) purchased tall black boots
4) bonded with my cousin naysan
5) went to CVS with my mom

let me take a moment to reflect on item #4. naysan is the youngest of my new orleans cousins. therefore, growing up, i didn't spend quite as much time with him, as he wasn't alive yet, or if he was alive he wasn't always old enough to partake in the early bonding that occurred amongst anis, <a href="http://lay-c.com/hi/">shokufeh</a>, and i. despite the lack of time spent together during the early years, he remains one of my faves. we bonded quite a bit this weekend, tossing back and forth the "your mom" jokes (made funnier by the fact that his mom was my aunt and vice versa), recalling lines from our favorite childhood movies, and calling each other "chump" (pronounced more like "chomp"). he's a quiet guy, and will pretty much only engage in conversation when asked a direct question, such as the following:
me: naysan, why don't you ever read your sister's blog?
naysan: i have a policy to never read blogs. i find them to be self-indulgent and generally useless.

what a chomp.