Sara and I went back to Blue Bayou yesterday. This trip went much better than our last one -- there was no rain, so we arrived earlier (even though traffic over the Mississippi River bridge was a crawl) and stayed later. We even ate lunch at the park, which we've never done before. The park has added some new stuff, but a lot of it is still exactly ( Read more... )

Rebecca has no life, so she spent her New Year's Eve visiting her sick grandma, then baby-sitting for some friends who do have lives. Yeah, I know what you're all thinking: "Someone asked you to baby-sit? You, who not only has no experience with kids but also hates them? What idiot did that?" It turns out it's actually a little creepy spending the ( Read more... )

Rebecca's been up to her elbows in latkes for the past two days! Yesterday morning, a hodge-podge of folks from the temple got together at Sassy Jewish Grandparents #1's house to fry some up. This was my first time making latkes, and who knew it was so much WORK? We peeled and chopped a small mountain of potatoes and onions (the job of peeling ( Read more... )

LiveJournal made some changes to its Rich Text Editor this week, and I'm having a lot of trouble getting used to it. Even coding my entries by hand in HTML is difficult, and I'm a pro at HTML. As an experiment to see if I still know how to make cuts, I'm posting two lists of songs. Here's the most random assortment of music you've ever seen!

( List #1: One-word song titles from Rebecca's iTunes library )

One of Rebecca's faults is that she can't simply like something without becoming obsessed with it on a grand scale. (See: The Beatles, JM Barrie/Peter Pan, young actresses, and NCIS. A pretty random assortment, huh?) I think one of the first things to really grab hold of me was Winnie-the-Pooh. As a kid, I had all the books, tried to recreate the ( Read more... )

Sara has caught a wicked cold and is trying her darndest to give it to me. But I credit all my bike riding with helping me avoid it. A nice cool front came through recently, and I've been riding my bike a lot. I made a batch of Marlene's stuffing for dinner tonight. I hardly follow her recipe to the letter anymore - and even when I did, mine was ( Read more... )

Although we've had our new laptop for a while now, I didn't resync my iPod until yesterday. I also still haven't set the sixth radio button in Muse Watson, because I can't decide what station to set it to. Maybe I have commitment issues.

Rebecca is still on her first iPod! That's right, it's the same one I got in 2007 and listened to in France. I ( Read more... )

Yesterday started out as an amazing day. I went to my first Torah study at the temple, which was very enjoyable and educational. I have met some amazing people at the temple, and I'm touched by how far they've gone to make me feel welcome there. Afterwards, I burned a CD for Mom that she'd wanted, then I went for a long, wonderful bike ride (and ( Read more... )

Almost every time I turn on the radio now, I hear "Good," by Carrie Underwood. I'm ashamed to say I actually like it, but geez, there's a limit to how much I can take. (Edit: I just googled the lyrics, and it's actually called "Mama's Song." Ugh.) But it is better than the Christmas music that some stations are playing. Today I heard that awful ( Read more... )

I heard Levon on the radio as I was driving home from work today. For some reason, I remember very vividly the first time I heard that song. Join me for a trip down memory lane.

It was April 2006, around the time of Spring Break. I had just gotten out of French Literature class with the drunkard and taken the Tigerland bus back to Tarpartment, ( Read more... )