i just booked our tickets to austin, september 23-29. kirk's brother kyle is getting married on the 27th! the ceremony is about 2 hrs away, but we are staying there for the first three nights and then driving to college station, which is where kirk was living when we first met, and it's also an hour closer to the church ( Read more... )

this weekend was:

• wall-e on friday ♥
• new king size bed
• bought a wii! (thank you pravda for mentioning the shortage was over!)
• indian food, hiding from the 100° heat
• canning strawberry jam on sunday

this weekend:
lemon curd cheesecake (first cheesecake i have ever attempted!)


our family's traditional easter bread

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meet pamfilo castaldi, apocryphal inventor of movable type.

my dad found this on wikipedia today (ha ha). i doubt my great grandfather giuseppe from naples was descended from a 16th century castaldi in milan, but it's an interesting story. and the castaldi + letterpress connection is fun! maybe kirk and i should rename our press. pamfilo press.

kirk is at work, i am at home tucked into bed with sleeping cats and books and papers. i wish this had been a magically productive weekend, with the paper draft i'd planned, along with 100+ completed pages of reading. but yesterday we drove to connecticut for canadian thanksgiving, with aunts and uncles and cousins and such. my senile grandfather ( Read more... )