Her hair meticulously styled and blow dried, she said she was also glad to have a night out without her three children.
"Mementos," made of dried rose petals joined in elaborate patterns by lacelike sections of meticulously hand-stitched, artificial hair, resemble big doilies.
Meticulously researched, but never dry or verbose, they are characterised by historical accuracy, intricate plotting, drama, passion, intrigue and humour.
The reality is anything but dry or arcane: beautifully written and meticulously researched, the book sweeps effortlessly from fin-de-siècle Paris to wartime Vienna to American-occupied Tokyo.
"Because some people thought it was like a competition, and it encouraged the idea of 'got to get the gun no matter what.' " The shooting's effect on the unit can be told in the numbers meticulously tallied on a dry-erase board in the Manhattan office.
Dry-cleaned by NASA after their return to earth and meticulously preserved since, the suits remain stained, indelibly, with gray-black moon dust.
In unusually dry early-season conditions, the snow was almost entirely man-made, but meticulously groomed.
Such dry paperwork has yielded vivid moments: when artisans went bankrupt, their tools were meticulously inventoried.
If you tire of Thai fire and spice, tuck into meticulously prepared Italian classics such as veal carpaccio, fillet of baccala (cod), or dry aged steaks from the open kitchen at La Scala, located on the lush, tranquil grounds of the Sukhothai Bangkok hotel on Sathorn Road.
