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My Sunday in pictures

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Big batch of waffles – John & Megan, Hannah & Corey, me & Rach all here for Sunday brekkie Went for a pedi Recorded a lecture for class Part two Made creamy rice pudding

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Vegetable heaven

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

  OK yea, I know it’s the title of a Mollie Katzen book – but it’s what we had for dinner tonight. I wanted to get using up veggies from my CSA box, and leftover from Food for Thought. I had a meeting on the west end of campus, and came home early after that, […]

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No tomatoes

Friday, September 26, 2014

So, most years I order a big box, 20 pounds or so, of plum tomatoes from my CSA, and then skin and dice and freeze them, or puree them and freeze them, or roast them. Somehow this year, I’ve missed my chance. It kind of goes along with my general recent malaise – I’m too […]

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Mark’s birthday eve

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Tomorrow is Mark’s 63rd birthday, so I’m going down to Chicago for a fun day. The plan is to meet at the Metra station in Schaumburg – I’ll be driving, he’ll take the train – and then head to Ikea for more apartment furnishing shopping. We’ll get some form of lunch – Maggiano’s in Schaumberg, […]

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Battered …

Sunday, September 21, 2014

… but not fried. Yesterday was the 16th annual Food for Thought Festival, and I volunteered at the the main tent, the Thought Tent, for the Chef Showdown. It’s a kind of iron chef thing, with three local chefs trying to come up with the best dish using farmers’ market ingredients, in 25 minutes. I […]

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I just want to eat chocolate and watch TV

Thursday, September 18, 2014

I did two half sick, half work at home days this week – Tuesday and Wednesday. I thought the fluffy cat would be happy that I was home, but she pretty much ignored me. On Tuesday I made oatmeal bread. I pretty much stayed indoors and worked, but took it easy, except for a quick […]

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Sleep – and weekends, and now it’s Monday again

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Sometimes I think the worst part about getting old is not being able to sleep. My normal pattern for the last few years, since I’ve been over 55, has been waking up every two or three hours – on a really good night it’s four hours; once in a long while  I’ll sleep five hours […]

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Still behind, but trying to catch up

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

  I spent the weekend, or at least, Saturday night and Sunday in Chicago at Mark’s pied à terre, a one-bedroom in a high rise in the South Loop, that’s an easy L ride to his job just off North Michigan. We took the train and arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday. John […]

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Vacation’s End

Saturday, September 6, 2014

I’m going to have to do one of those catch up posts before I forget everything. This is brought on by trying to remember when we went to see The Fault in Our Stars – it was after Toni left July 10 but before August 1 – I think – tho it could’ve been after […]

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Washington Island, 2

Monday, September 1, 2014

Sunday was by no means sunny, but at least it wasn’t raining. Instead of breakfast out, we decided to just eat a little something at the cabin and try to catch the 10:00 ferry to Rock Island. We had two bananas that needed to be eaten, anyways. I had mine with peanut butter and Mark […]

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