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今天听完这本书。　丹妮尔·斯蒂尔（Danielle Steel）2013年的新作《一见钟情》（FIRST SIGHT）。也许是因为女儿也搞时装，所以我对书中女主人公的生活很有共鸣。

The book from best-selling author Steel. Timmie O'Neill is a youthful 48-year-old woman who rose from humble beginnings to create and run a successful fashion company for the past 23 years. Her life is all work, almost no play and, since the death of her only child and subsequent divorce 11 years earlier, no real love. Since she travels so often to Paris for the prêt-à-porter shows, a friend gives her the name and number of a physician there just in case she needs one. Her appendix bursts, requiring surgery at the American hospital in Paris, where the good doctor meets her. The ambulance triggers memories of the childhood tragedy that left her an orphan at 5, requiring a hand to hold and a sympathetic ear, which the doctor offers. She tells him the story of the car accident that killed her parents, the years in the orphanage as one prospective family after another returned her until she walked out on her own at 16, started work as a waitress and began making clothing on the side. Decades later, when her fashion company brings in a fortune, she donates $1 million to nuns who open an orphanage that she not only supports financially, but in other ways, visiting the children and often joining them for the holidays that she would otherwise spend alone. The doctor, who is going through his own heartaches trapped in a loveless marriage, is drawn to her. The path to her destiny is filled with convoluted peregrinations, but Timmie keeps on and ultimately achieves what she wants and deserves. A novel about love, in all its heartbreaking and splendid forms.

这几天读这本书，长了不少关于养宠物狗方面的知识。觉得应该买一本送女儿。

同事朱莉生日，打点了一包礼物送她，还自己动手为她做了一张生日贺卡。

今年元宵节自己做的是核桃、黑芝麻馅的汤圆，用蜂蜜代替白糖，又香又甜又健康，好吃。

今年真巧，农历正月十五元宵节刚好也是西方的情人节，可谓是中西文化在年历上的一次精巧碰撞。我有一点儿好奇，人们更愿意用哪一种方式庆祝这一天？全家团圆吃汤圆，还是两人约会享受浪漫？

鳄梨，又叫油果，是一种很健康的食品。我常常用它抹面包吃，再加一些自己做的黑芝麻粉，可当早餐，也可当点心，很好吃，推荐一下。

今天有一位同事生日，我做了一盘简易的小点心去祝贺。主旨是健康、美观、简易、方便，大家可以各拿一杯放在工作台上酌咖啡，尽享美食，又不必担心发胖，果然很受欢迎，一端出来就被抢光了。别说，这漂亮的小纸杯里内容还挺丰富，有：核桃仁、大杏仁、巧克力腰果、杏仁酥、南瓜子仁酥、巧克力小饼干、雪豆条、巧克力棒等8种小点心，雪人是用来装饰的。因为自己喜欢美食，所以在我的手中，食品的视觉美也是一定要讲究的。