One of my favorite things about not having a job is being home for lunch. Yesterday I made braised swiss chard and quinoa. Today I made a huge bowl salad with Boston lettuce, feta, turkey bacon, avocado, tomato and red onion. It was really good.
I met up with some friends during the [...]
I made peach sauce twice last night. I bought eight peaches yesterday afternoon, with the intention to cook four and have four for eating later. I cut up half, put them in a pot with a little water, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice/zest and let them do their thing. Only their thing included burning, leaving [...]
After three nights on a hard bunk I was more than a little rest-deprived when it came time to get up for breakfast this morning. So I spent most of this morning in my sleeping bag napping under an adolescent tree. I wrapped the arms of a hooded sweatshirt leftover from college around my eyes [...]
Sunday morning at 11:30, Cindy picked me up in front of my building in a white rented Chevy Impala. She gave up her dying Acura a couple months back and has been living without a car ever since. Every six weeks or so, she’ll rent a car for the weekend in order to [...]
Yesterday morning, already more than half an hour late for work, I hurriedly ate a bowl of Cheerios while leaning up against the kitchen counter. At the bottom of the bowl, I chased the the last three uncooperative O’s around in half-circle, eventually convincing them to board the spoon. I tipped the green bowl up [...]
I pulled myself out of bed this morning a couple of minutes after 6 am, which is WELL before my usual rise time. Squinting my myself in the bathroom mirror, I had a hard time identifying my features, so wrinkled was my face from the pillow and the lack of sleep.
I was at work [...]
I just lifted my hand to my face to mindless pick the zit that’s growing in my right eyebrow, and realized that my hands still smell slightly of baby. Of that inarticulateable infant scent that contains trust and sleep and love and shampoo that doesn’t sting. I don’t particularly want to wash my [...]
Pictures of the engagement party cum surprise wedding are up. I’ve carved the 350+ I took down to a (mostly) manageable set of 128. Ellen has been uploading some of the shots I took, along with other pictures from friends and family here.
I haven’t yet had the opportunity to carve a couple paragraphs [...]
About ten minutes ago, I sat down in front of my computer, in the first pocket of total downtime I’ve had all weekend, thinking that I would be able to write a blog entry that would be able to do justice to any of the things I did. I’m rapidly realizing that just ain’t gonna [...]
My family has a tradition of moving over Memorial Day Weekend, so every year, I’m grateful when Memorial Day comes and goes without boxes, bubble wrap and moving vans. When they don’t include moving, I have always been partial to holiday weekends. People kick back a little more than normal, comfortable in the knowledge that [...]
