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Summer Travel Plans
For those who might want to know when Mike and I will be visiting where ( Read more... ) -
Spontaneous Road Trip!
About a week ago, roman_mclaze invited Mike and I to a Memorial-Day-weekend barbecue in Dayton. Even though we did not have a lot of plans for the long weekend, we had to turn down the invite, as the barbecue was on Sunday evening and so was our community band rehearsal. I explained that it was the last rehearsal before our performance at the Old West End ( Read more... ) -
Ankle Update
Finally had another appointment with the ortho (at the last one he said "come back in six weeks"). That was a remarkable amount of waiting for not a lot of appointment. Had an x-ray. Everything seems to have stayed where he put it, so I am now told to put some weight on it. Up to about 40 pounds, he said, then had me push the foot down on a ( Read more... ) -
Cake: Can Haz
If I'm going to whine, I need to remember to post the good stuff too. Mike made me cake on Saturday! He suggested that perhaps I deserved some homemade (from a box, but still) strawberry cake, as his attempt to bake one for my birthday failed (he bought me a store cake instead that time). We declared it to be a Happy Spring Equinox cake, and ( Read more... ) -
I want cake
Anyone feel like coming to South Bend and buying me cake? I'd say baking, but I don't have the basic supplies here, so you'd have to bring your own. I just stumbled across a picture of cupcakes with lovely green frosting and candy shamrocks, which has made it worse. I guess I'll have some cookies after dinner, closest I've got ( Read more... ) -
box
Successfully shuffled over to answer the door before the mail carrier had gotten more than two doors down, and so was able to receive a small package that didn't fit thought the mail slot ( Read more... ) -
travels
Having finally admitted that I will not be returning to work before spring break, I worked out that it would be necessary to retrieve some clothes and most importantly my parakeets from my Indiana apartment. Mike being a decisive guy, over lunch yesterday we decided to make the trip last night as soon as he got done with work. Drove 2.5 hours to ( Read more... ) -
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Ice
Going in to work before dawn means that often my first proper look at the world isn't until I go home for lunch. Today, after a night of freezing fog which is only now lifting, South Bend's trees are just gorgeous, ghostly silver against the thick gray sky. I hope Notre Dame's woods still look that way when I get back in a few hours; the ( Read more... ) -
Dating
How old is my apartment's microwave?
So old that the list of suggested heating times does not contain an entry for "popcorn".
This microwave pre-dates microwave popcorn.