I had the most relaxing day in a long while ( Read more... )

At the local hookah joint, smokediceman decides to try the exotic sounding "tamer hindi (sweet and sour fruit)". It's listed under "fruit juices and smoothies", so I ask the pitt-student-by-day waitress what it's made of. "Of tamer hindi!" she exclaims and then seeing the blank looks adds "it's a pulpy thing, comes in blocks ( Read more... )

best bit about winter: watching perfectly formed white snowflakes fall and coat everything white.

worst bit about winter: spending hypothermic 15 mins every morning scraping the said snow off the car.

Well, yeah, I don't care if you think this blog is getting repetitive - this is _my_ freakin blog and today tops yesterday as the weirdest weather _I_ have seen :D ( Read more... )

This has been a weird day for Pittsburgh weather ( Read more... )

Went to a Superbowl Sunday party for the first time*. I think it was fun - what with the yelling and junk food - though I still don't "get" the game for nuts :D

*says something doesn't it? this is the fourth year since I got into the country and only now am trying out the essential "american" experiences. so much for being a travel freak.

Some pics from our shopping trip to the strip this Saturday morning:

( Chocolate and Coffee )

Positively Giddy!!


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How quickly the weather has changed here - after weeks and weeks of humid heat (why, just this Monday had a high of 31C), today is a very chilly 11C - with a slight drizzle and a cloudy sky. Perfect excuse to pull a WFH off - so here I am, lounging about the newly set up house, sipping dainty white tea (another pretentious habit I've picked up - ( Read more... )