i am home from the wars and by "wars" i mean "florida". (spoiler: there were no wars.) actually i got back last sunday but sometimes reentry takes a while. classes started at work which means students are back which i like but which also means i have a shit ton of stuff to do ( Read more... )

so i went to florida last week and got a little sun and ate a lot and did not sleep well (i think partly because it was a single bed and i'm used to a double) and played dominos and watched a lot of yellowstone (my mom and sister are big fans and my sister had to catch up to mom so i got to catch up too) (i still haven't seen s1 tho) and saw a play ( Read more... )

so i went to florida like two weeks ago to see the parental unit, eat fish, and walk on the beach. it was slightly too cold for beach, but i did get my fish. >((("> we also went to the dali museum (which is basically a place to house one couple's MASSIVE collection of dali's work) and the whimsy museum (SO WHIMSICAL) (also adorable) and an ( Read more... )

so i'm home from the wars, and by "wars" i mean "florida". well, i've been home since late monday night/early tuesday morning, i just haven't posted. i'm behind on everything. but i had a good time with the family unit - my parents only did one seder and they only had one other couple, so there were just six of us which is a small seder by our ( Read more... )

i'm home from the topics, if by "tropics" you mean "florida". it wasn't that tropical, but at least it wasn't freezing. i spent a lot of time sitting around my parents' house reading, and honestly, if i wanted to sit around the house and read i could've stayed home. but my mom had an all-day bridge thing monday and tuesday (she's the treasurer ( Read more... )

hi flist, i'm home. (actually i came back yesterday but my sister and i went to see moonlight and i didn't feel like updating when i got home.) florida was sunny and warm and beautiful and i ate fish and walked around and helped build an ikea dresser and did not actually help at the food festival at my parents' temple but i did eat blintzes and, ( Read more... )

hi flist. i'm home. :D well, i got home last night, but after i unpacked i just checked my email and watched tv until i decided maybe i should go to bed ( Read more... )

first, happy birthday to beeker121, west coast runner. :D i'm on time with the birthdays for once! i think the last time you posted you weren't feeling well, so i hope a. you feel better, and b. you had a nice celebratory wednesday. with cake. :D ( Read more... )

did i mention i went to florida? i went to florida. (the parental unit is down there until the end of february. i now have to ice my mom's orchids every sunday.) i ate a lot - mostly fish, some of it fried - and got to walk on the beach for like fifteen minutes, and we went to a farmer's market and a very small art fair and an open-air vintage ( Read more... )

i'm home and florida was very relaxing, even tho it rained and i didn't get any beach time. but i got to eat fish (snapper and lots of it) and a nice key lime pie, and we saw spamalot which was quite funny, and august: osage county which was kind of an unpleasant experience because it was full of horrible, dysfunctional people being cruel to each ( Read more... )