CO like whoa! Wednesday, March 25, 2009

We just spent the last week in Colorado visiting family. First and foremost, visiting my sister and her partner (who I've never met) and their 7 month old son, my nephew Joaquin (who I've also never met). They all live just outside of Denver. In preparation for the trip I made some presents for Joaquin - a sheep made out of socks, and a crocheted blanket that I started intending to be a present for her baby shower last July. I finished it while we were staying there this last week... oops.

Other reasons for visiting were to see my friend Bruce, who was one of my best friends in Budapest, and to see Rob's Aunt Margaret and Uncle Brad who live just outside of Boulder. We got in Wednesday afternoon, hung out with Bruce in Denver on Saturday, and went to Boulder on Sunday.

First, allow me to introduce Joaquin. He likes bananas and when people say his name.

My sister and Joaquin

Saturday morning love

A close up of the sheep and the blanket

Me and Bruce! Holy crap it had been over a year!
Manuel, Alissa and Joaquin all dressed up for church on Sunday

Me, Joaquin and Rob right before Rob and I left for Boulder

While we were in Boulder we went to the Celestial Seasonings factory. We got there too late to go on a tour, but we did get to wander around the gift shop, taste some samples, and get our picture taken with the Sleepytime Bear.

Margaret took us to the airport Tuesday morning and we were back at home by 1:15pm Tuesday afternoon.


Now we're back home for a couple days, then it's up to Port Townsend for the weekend to visit Rob's family. Classes start next Monday for Rob, and I'm taking a printmaking class that starts Tuesday.

Pi Day! Saturday, March 14, 2009

It's pi day!
Speaking of math humor, I don't know when this ran, but it's hilarious:


And speaking of hilarity, I give you this:




But now it's 1:56... pi time is just 3 minutes away! (3/14 1:59 omg what a dork)

New Friends Thursday, March 12, 2009

My back porch garden is growing!

And many thanks to mom, dad and Bethany Nursery for helping it grow!


I'm going to make a lot of pies in the near future. Here are some reasons:

1. Pushing Daisies. If that show doesn't make you want to eat pie like it's going out of style, I don't know what will.
   
2. Parents/Fruit. Mom came up on Tuesday to go to Art Media and brought me a cooler full of frozen blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples and pears courtesy of her and my dad.
3. Pi(e) day! It's the day after tomorrow!

Bread is getting easier every time I make it. I tried using brown sugar instead of honey last time, but it came out extra yeasty/borderline alcoholic. I'm switching back to honey from now on.


I am ultra/extra/super thankful that the sun in shining again, but it's still cold like whoa. Sorry, but today's high of 54 just won't cut it. I won't be entirely happy until the day's low is 60.

Daylight Savings, etc Sunday, March 8, 2009

Ok so Daylight Savings Time totally snuck up on me. We had an alarm set for 9:15 this morning for church and after it went off a few times I wondered why I was still feeling so tired and hellish. And then Rob looked at the clock radio, which I never bother to do because I'm blind without my glasses, and it was 8:30. Daylight Savings Time, you bring nothing but sadness and pain to everyone you touch (the first day. After that, you're pretty sweet.) Whatever, I guess we're skipping church today.

Last night Rob and I were watching videos of cute cats on YouTube and we found one of cats talking to eachother. Cubby got really confused and agitated and kept sniffing the computer and trying to talk back to the cats in the video. It was really heartbreaking. He's probably lonely... but it's ok, he's getting a friend! Our roommate Tess is moving out in less than a month and LeAnn is moving in with her cat! There were worries at first because Cubby is a very dominant alpha male who had issues in his last home because there were two other cats. But LeAnn's cat is a very quiet, submissive female, and I think because of that, and because Cubby is the first cat and very obviously already the master of this apartment, they'll get along just fine.


We took a field trip to Uwajimaya on Friday and I have been cooking like whoa every since. Friday night I made sushi with edamame, bean buns and mochi. Last night I made Pad Thai from scratch, and other than the chewiness of the noodles and the lack of bean sprouts (Freddies ran out of bean sprouts. Who does that?) it tasted just like restaurant style Pad Thai. Yumm another way to save money...

All-One-Or-None! Wednesday, March 4, 2009

I'm sort of obsessed with Dr. Bronner today.