I have been adventuring lately in the kitchen. The other night I made pizza for the first time and burnt myself and almost killed my parrot (long, hilarious story I could do no justice by recounting) but OH MAN was it a) fun, and b) delicious! Trader Joe's sells pizza dough that everyone raves about, and it turns out there's a good reason. The ( Read more... )

Had an absolutely fantastic weekend with spectralbovine here! What a great start to 2010. He left early yesterday morning, and I rounded out my last day off with some reading, beaching, and fellowship. Got New Seeds of Contemplation for Christmas and it's already challenging me in all the right ways. Trying to keep my head screwed on straight about all this NEW ( Read more... )

And while I'm sitting here going WHAT HOW, my boss brings me a gift: three little dancing wind-up robots for my desk. Two boys, one girl, to represent our department. Yes, they know me here ( Read more... )