guess who got breakfast in bed this morning? sometimes this boy is a peach, let me tell you. frannie could barely stand having food at so accessible a location, though - watching her struggle to maintain distance was part of the fun.
yesterday featured a rough hour at the gym - 140 or so miles on the scooter (written up by sid) and then a poor night of sleep coupled to make me super achy and even less enthusiastic than normal. that achy, groaning hour was followed up by a migraine that started while i was in the shower. luckily, like most of my recent migraines, it was just a really spectacular (and nearly totally blinding) visual aura, so i decided not to skip my study date with gayle - i just pestered sid to give me a ride to the cafe while my eyes were calming down. a caffeine infusion helped calm things down swiftly, and the afternoon was very productive (though i will admit that i wasted to much time reading up on mad men finale exegesis and doing a sunday crossword puzzle).
two dogs snooze in the sun right now, and i need to hit the post office today to get the last of my wedding thank you notes out into the world. later this afternoon, i have a lesson scheduled at the shop where sid bought my new sewing machine - they give you a run down on new machines purchased there, and i think a refresher course + information about that machine is a very fine idea indeed.
yesterday featured a rough hour at the gym - 140 or so miles on the scooter (written up by sid) and then a poor night of sleep coupled to make me super achy and even less enthusiastic than normal. that achy, groaning hour was followed up by a migraine that started while i was in the shower. luckily, like most of my recent migraines, it was just a really spectacular (and nearly totally blinding) visual aura, so i decided not to skip my study date with gayle - i just pestered sid to give me a ride to the cafe while my eyes were calming down. a caffeine infusion helped calm things down swiftly, and the afternoon was very productive (though i will admit that i wasted to much time reading up on mad men finale exegesis and doing a sunday crossword puzzle).
two dogs snooze in the sun right now, and i need to hit the post office today to get the last of my wedding thank you notes out into the world. later this afternoon, i have a lesson scheduled at the shop where sid bought my new sewing machine - they give you a run down on new machines purchased there, and i think a refresher course + information about that machine is a very fine idea indeed.
last night was a rough one.
well, it started out great. sid and i had a tasty dinner at eden alley, then headed upstairs to unity temple for a john hodgman reading sponsored by rainy day books, on the occasion of the paperback release of his last book. for the last several years i would have labeled myself a hodgman fan, but a new hodgman-fire burns in me after last night. up close & in person he is super adorable and utterly charming, and i was all a-flutter through the reading and when i got my copy of the book autographed. until...
...i was tricked into going underwear shopping, and it all crashed down around me! the reading finished early and sid suggested we go to a movie across the street in order to make the most of our friday night. (sid continues to be serious about weekend nights = fun, even though we're both unemployed at the moment and can do whatever we damn well please, any night of the week.) the men who stare at goats was our best option, though the next showing was 50 minutes later. we went for a walk to kill time and that's when the underwear debacle took place. i will skim that bit over, and just say that a half hour later we went to the movie, it was fine for the first hour, then i apparently passed out and missed all of the important information & comedy, then woke up for a confusing climax. straight to bed after that...
... only to be woken up at 3:30 am by stella dog's extremely labored breathing. there was a long period of sharp huffing through her nose, which turned into a very congested, rattly chest, which finally mellowed into her normal loud snoring and whistly nose. she looked scared last night, and so were we. this morning, though, she seems fine. frannie dog then woke at 6 am to throw up twice. she, too, now seems fine.
10 am had us at 54th & troost, volunteering for tulips on troost. troost avenue, for those who don't know, is the historic black/white dividing line in very segregated kansas city. it was the dividing line between race-based subdivision covenants until too recently, and what was once a bustling, full commercial thoroughfare fell into stereotypical 'hood condition. there's an increasingly strong community claiming ownership of the area, however, and one of the outgrowths of that is the tulips on troost crew. their goal, starting several years ago, is to plant 1,000,000 tulip bulbs along the avenue before 2010. we did our bit at one of the locations today. sid put a lot of muscle into digging beds; i ended up doing more planting. there was a 10-ish year old boy there, seemingly along with his "big brother," and we got to talking about a lot of tulip-related topics. he asked why they needed to planted so deep, and i told him that one reason is so squirrels don't eat them. he snorted, and said "nuh uh, if a squirrel tried to eat my tulips, i would slap them." take that as your warning, squirrels.
i'm told the afternoon was beautiful but i wouldn't know - i fell asleep at 12:45 and didn't get up until sid rousted me out around 3:30 with news that we had dinner plans, to be followed by roller skating (!?) with some friends and their kids. that part of the day begins momentarily.
well, it started out great. sid and i had a tasty dinner at eden alley, then headed upstairs to unity temple for a john hodgman reading sponsored by rainy day books, on the occasion of the paperback release of his last book. for the last several years i would have labeled myself a hodgman fan, but a new hodgman-fire burns in me after last night. up close & in person he is super adorable and utterly charming, and i was all a-flutter through the reading and when i got my copy of the book autographed. until...
...i was tricked into going underwear shopping, and it all crashed down around me! the reading finished early and sid suggested we go to a movie across the street in order to make the most of our friday night. (sid continues to be serious about weekend nights = fun, even though we're both unemployed at the moment and can do whatever we damn well please, any night of the week.) the men who stare at goats was our best option, though the next showing was 50 minutes later. we went for a walk to kill time and that's when the underwear debacle took place. i will skim that bit over, and just say that a half hour later we went to the movie, it was fine for the first hour, then i apparently passed out and missed all of the important information & comedy, then woke up for a confusing climax. straight to bed after that...
... only to be woken up at 3:30 am by stella dog's extremely labored breathing. there was a long period of sharp huffing through her nose, which turned into a very congested, rattly chest, which finally mellowed into her normal loud snoring and whistly nose. she looked scared last night, and so were we. this morning, though, she seems fine. frannie dog then woke at 6 am to throw up twice. she, too, now seems fine.
10 am had us at 54th & troost, volunteering for tulips on troost. troost avenue, for those who don't know, is the historic black/white dividing line in very segregated kansas city. it was the dividing line between race-based subdivision covenants until too recently, and what was once a bustling, full commercial thoroughfare fell into stereotypical 'hood condition. there's an increasingly strong community claiming ownership of the area, however, and one of the outgrowths of that is the tulips on troost crew. their goal, starting several years ago, is to plant 1,000,000 tulip bulbs along the avenue before 2010. we did our bit at one of the locations today. sid put a lot of muscle into digging beds; i ended up doing more planting. there was a 10-ish year old boy there, seemingly along with his "big brother," and we got to talking about a lot of tulip-related topics. he asked why they needed to planted so deep, and i told him that one reason is so squirrels don't eat them. he snorted, and said "nuh uh, if a squirrel tried to eat my tulips, i would slap them." take that as your warning, squirrels.
i'm told the afternoon was beautiful but i wouldn't know - i fell asleep at 12:45 and didn't get up until sid rousted me out around 3:30 with news that we had dinner plans, to be followed by roller skating (!?) with some friends and their kids. that part of the day begins momentarily.
we were on the list for a show out in lawrence last night, so i rushed to complete a project for school, and we rushed to eat dinner, and drove the 50 minutes west. we found a parking spot on mass. street and hurried the wo blocks to the venue... to realize that we were a day early. we head back west tonight, for real this time.
do you realize that we have to go to at least two, usually three, different grocery stores to get things we consider staples? we have a big general grocery store near our house that is our first stop, but they carry very few vegetarian/vegan products, and their produce is crap and rots within a day or two. there is the world's smallest whole foods a mile from us (was a tiny wild oats but then re-branded when whole foods bought them out), but because they're so small they don't carry a lot of what we want. we have to go to the whole foods in the kansas suburbs or to a health food market about 15 minutes north of us to fill in the gaps. if we want good produce, we really have to try to go elsewhere, or go to the farmers market, or buy the crap at the sunfresh and eat it as quickly as possible.
i wonder how long it will be before i lose a shoe on my scooter, starting from a stop. it's almost happened several times now.
doing lots of homework at the cafe now, but idly shopping online between articles. i like dresses.
p.s. i aced that licensing exam that i was so bent out of shape about the other day.
do you realize that we have to go to at least two, usually three, different grocery stores to get things we consider staples? we have a big general grocery store near our house that is our first stop, but they carry very few vegetarian/vegan products, and their produce is crap and rots within a day or two. there is the world's smallest whole foods a mile from us (was a tiny wild oats but then re-branded when whole foods bought them out), but because they're so small they don't carry a lot of what we want. we have to go to the whole foods in the kansas suburbs or to a health food market about 15 minutes north of us to fill in the gaps. if we want good produce, we really have to try to go elsewhere, or go to the farmers market, or buy the crap at the sunfresh and eat it as quickly as possible.
i wonder how long it will be before i lose a shoe on my scooter, starting from a stop. it's almost happened several times now.
doing lots of homework at the cafe now, but idly shopping online between articles. i like dresses.
p.s. i aced that licensing exam that i was so bent out of shape about the other day.
01. i do not like chewing food when i have earbuds in.
02. i am systematically listening through all the tracks that my itunes says i've never listened to. (even though i know i have? maybe on my ipod? or who knows.) as of right now, i have 3408 left to go.
03. on saturday, sid accompanied me as i rode my scooter to school, then met me for lunch & back, and to return home. on the return from lunch bit, i somehow hit a dip in the road funny and managed to bang my knees against the leg shield and also hit my engine cut off switch? anyway nothing disastrous happened but i have some bruises on my knees and felt like a doofus.
04. dogs do not understand daylight savings time.
05. thinking back on halloween, i'm remembering that i often had ridiculous + high concept costumes as a kid. i started slow with jem in kindergarten, a witch in first grade, and then i was punk rock in second grade. after that? i recall being an "explosion in a crayon factory," and in 5th grade, i was a dolphin caught in a tuna seine net.
06. other halloween follow-up - sid decorated extravagantly for halloween, to only have 3 kids (in one family) come by. around 8 o'clock we relocated to ryan & megan's, as the westside is apparently a halloween hot spot, and sid got to get his kicks scaring children in his skeleton for a few hours. after the kids stopped coming by, we played trivial pursuit '80s edition, which he & i won, in no small part because i evinced a peculiar skill with '80s sports trivia. also that night, i learned that euchre makes no sense to me. i almost cried from frustration. thursday, we go back over to try again. i'll try to study up in the interim.
07. i've been picking at a sandwich for about an hour and a half now (ref #1).
02. i am systematically listening through all the tracks that my itunes says i've never listened to. (even though i know i have? maybe on my ipod? or who knows.) as of right now, i have 3408 left to go.
03. on saturday, sid accompanied me as i rode my scooter to school, then met me for lunch & back, and to return home. on the return from lunch bit, i somehow hit a dip in the road funny and managed to bang my knees against the leg shield and also hit my engine cut off switch? anyway nothing disastrous happened but i have some bruises on my knees and felt like a doofus.
04. dogs do not understand daylight savings time.
05. thinking back on halloween, i'm remembering that i often had ridiculous + high concept costumes as a kid. i started slow with jem in kindergarten, a witch in first grade, and then i was punk rock in second grade. after that? i recall being an "explosion in a crayon factory," and in 5th grade, i was a dolphin caught in a tuna seine net.
06. other halloween follow-up - sid decorated extravagantly for halloween, to only have 3 kids (in one family) come by. around 8 o'clock we relocated to ryan & megan's, as the westside is apparently a halloween hot spot, and sid got to get his kicks scaring children in his skeleton for a few hours. after the kids stopped coming by, we played trivial pursuit '80s edition, which he & i won, in no small part because i evinced a peculiar skill with '80s sports trivia. also that night, i learned that euchre makes no sense to me. i almost cried from frustration. thursday, we go back over to try again. i'll try to study up in the interim.
07. i've been picking at a sandwich for about an hour and a half now (ref #1).
i've been bad at my post-a-day plan for the last week or so, but i believe the spirit of the thing is still intact.
sid announced that today is a milestone - it is the first day since we've been together that i cooked all three meals. you may or may not understand why that is an important milestone; i hope you will accept that to at least one person in this household, it is of the utmost importance.
the day was capped by baking an apple pie. two pies, actually - one full-size, and then the leftover crust and apples went into one of my tiny pyrex casserole dishes to make a one-serving little pie. sid and i just ate that one and it was pretty good. the big pie is cooling on the counter right now. it baked a little unevenly, and learning how crust browns without an eggwash is a big of a challenge. anyway, pictures to come tomorrow when i pull them off my phone:
there was going to be more to this post but sid is making noise about needing to sleep asap and we are in the habit of always going to bed together, always. i think i can count on one hand the number of times that's not happened since we met. will it last? CHECK BACK HERE etc etc etc.
sid announced that today is a milestone - it is the first day since we've been together that i cooked all three meals. you may or may not understand why that is an important milestone; i hope you will accept that to at least one person in this household, it is of the utmost importance.
the day was capped by baking an apple pie. two pies, actually - one full-size, and then the leftover crust and apples went into one of my tiny pyrex casserole dishes to make a one-serving little pie. sid and i just ate that one and it was pretty good. the big pie is cooling on the counter right now. it baked a little unevenly, and learning how crust browns without an eggwash is a big of a challenge. anyway, pictures to come tomorrow when i pull them off my phone:
there was going to be more to this post but sid is making noise about needing to sleep asap and we are in the habit of always going to bed together, always. i think i can count on one hand the number of times that's not happened since we met. will it last? CHECK BACK HERE etc etc etc.
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