Is it okay that I'm just too tired to blog about the hard stuff? There's a lot of hard stuff lately, and when I open my laptop I engage with it, but I don't feel up to recapping it all here.

Last night Chris and I walked up the street to Andrea's, where she made us dinner and we watched the film, Only Lovers Left Alive, which is far more ( Read more... )

I didn't do anything for the Fourth of July - in fact, I forgot it was the Fourth for much of the day, as I spent much of the day alternated between drowsily reading a paperback, and dozing. Damn headache ( Read more... )

Lisa and I were talking just a bit ago, and she was telling me about harvesting sorrel to make tea - bright red tea for Christmas time. She said she remembered helping her grandmother peel the flowers when she was a little girl in Jamaica, and how her grandmother never needed gloves although the flowers were sticky and prickly. We both reminisced ( Read more... )

Happy Pi Day! Have an interesting essay involving Einstein and math.

I am not a math person, not remotely, but I do like pie an awful lot. It is tradition to make/eat pie on Pi Day. Finally this year, for the first time, I decided to do just that ( Read more... )

Tonight I managed to cook a meal that was not only tasty (unanimous agreement from everyone at the table), but satisfied the very tricky dietary requirements currently present in our house ( Read more... )

Monday is Kathy's birthday, but since she'll be on her way to Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday, to rejoin CPT's project there, she asked that we celebrate today, instead. So I've made my locally-famous chickpea chocolate cake, because Kathy pointed out that, though I've blogged about this cake numerous times, and made it whilst in Kurdistan, she'd yet to ( Read more... )

Dear Future Self ( Read more... )

I found some more today.

( pictures for proof )

It was a sunny 75°F here today, and I spent the afternoon transforming some discarded plastic food crates into planters. I lined 'em with cardboard (also discarded); we'll see how they hold up with multiple waterings. It's certainly far cheaper than buying planters, and they would've been thrown out anyway, so I figure it's a worthy experiment ( Read more... )

Thing The First: Today is Pi Day, if you didn't know. March 14th. That's 3/14, in the US-based system of dates. Alternately, 3.14159265...I didn't have, or make, any pie today. (Though I did make cinnamon rolls with a chocolate-mocha frosting. My team was appreciative.) I'm saving up, though, for when I get home. Shoofly pie and peach pie and ( Read more... )