… in my last post. Friday was a work from home day, but I didn’t have any meetings until noon, so I started the day with a bike ride through the Arb, stopping by the library to pick up a hold book and return a cookbook that I decided to buy, finally swinging by Penzey’s. … [Read more…]
Or, one step forward, two steps back. Like the Grateful Dead song, “Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride”. Just like everything, the weather is up and down, back and forth. A week ago Friday the high was 90°, today it’s 60°. For every positive thing, seems like there’re at least two negatives. And … [Read more…]
Friday morning I broke a mirror. Well, maybe – it’s possible it was already broken before I dropped it. It’s an old makeup mirror that used to be able to stand in its blue plastic frame, but the frame’s been gone for a long time, so it’s this approximately 6-inch round mirror with a magnifying … [Read more…]
So I have been cooking, honest, and have even been feeling like there have been some of those tiny victories, using up leftovers, making tasty things that everyone eats, learning how to use the new oven, I just have not been taking many pictures of the food. If food has been made and eaten and … [Read more…]
I felt so shitty when I was writing Friday night. I’d eaten too much and not gotten enough done at work and just generally felt deadlines and fat phobias and stuck-ness and pandemic blues crashing down on me. I was headachey and my stomach hurt and I was cranky and tired. And there was a … [Read more…]
So I’m in one of those phases when all kinds of little things are going wrong. That I used to think would protect me from the major catastrophes, but now I’m not so sure. Like how we used to joke about Northwest Airlines “Northworst” that they’d lose your luggage and make you late but [probably] … [Read more…]
This week I’m specializing in eating the stuff that nobody else wants. Like Thursday, I made open face cheese-y melt-y things and leftover soup for dinner. We had two soups, some cream of turkey with wild rice soup, and some butternut squash chili. Mark and Maja both opted for the turkey-wild rice, so I had … [Read more…]
I started writing this post last Sunday as Halloween 2021, continued yesterday, a week later, when nothing had gotten written except the title. So I changed it to Stuck. And now I am continuing on post-fall-back Monday morning, when it seems like I have a little extra time to write, before I go out to … [Read more…]
Normally, at this time on Sunday, I’d be getting ready to go walk Mark’s 10,000 step loop that includes coffee at Colectivo, but the AFS kid needs to be dropped at a friend’s house at 9:45 and that’s only partway into the walk, so instead I’m listening, sorta watching, this Wilco/Sleater-Kinney show I bought, they’re … [Read more…]
Thursday was the last day of the online students orientation, now an online event, and grades aren’t due until the 16th, so even though I have a ton of grading to do for my internship class (37 students) I decided that I deserve a real weekend. I mean, I have a whole other weekend to … [Read more…]