{"id":4531,"date":"2012-01-26T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:36:35","slug":"back-home-but-not-quite-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/back-home-but-not-quite-back-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home but not quite back to normal –"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever that is – My brother’s writing<\/a> about\u00a0 the string of snow days in Seattle that disrupted his schedule, and I’m in Madison still feeling conference-time-shifted. For me, rather than snow storms, I think it’s the perfect storm of a long weekend in Dallas, including one twilight zone day<\/a>, (capped off by Mark’s bout with food poisoning<\/a>) plus the start of a new semester, plus we have a new exchange student (also at loose ends, patiently waiting for second semester to start at high school – Jan. 30th), plus the off winter weather we’ve been having. We finally got some real snow, but we’ve also had ice and rain and temperatures in the mid-30s in the daytime.<\/p>\n

My main complaint is the utter inability to know what day it is – I missed Wednesday somehow.<\/p>\n

Got back late Monday night to kitty-trampled kitchen counters, and stacks of mail. Today was trash and recycle day, so the kitchen’s looking more normal – I even dumped the compost twice – one advantage of the warmer winter – the compost bin doesn’t freeze closed – but I could do without there still being alive, flying bugs in there in NOVEMBER.<\/p>\n

Tonight there’s noodle casseroles for dinner at the supper club<\/a> – turkey and broccoli-mushroom – spinach salad and fruit salad and cookies. Both recipes made vats – I had to do overflow small pans, beyond the 13 x 9 x 2 I had planned for each. Maybe I’ll get a few pix, but given my usual habits, would that be a sign of normalcy, or ab-?<\/p>\n

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Half bagel on messy desk atop teetering pile of grad school applications I need to read<\/p><\/div>\n

PS, as per usual, I guess – even though it was an exceptionally nice dinner group, pleasant conversation, several new members – only one picture from the dinner, and it’s of leftovers the next day:
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Ginger cookies & chocolate chip - there were some rugelach too, but we ate 'em before they could get leftover<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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