let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger.

Last night, Matt and I went to a class at Southwest High School called ‘Vegetarian Indian Curries’. The course writeup promised to teach us the building blocks for making curry, from which you can make a million different types. And that’s exactly what we got. I loved it. I can’t wait to go to the Indian grocery to pick up ...

catching up…

So, Easter weekend. It was fantastic. Matt’s parents arrived Saturday morning. We did some grocery shopping, then went to Kohls and Bachman’s. I got  seeds and other garden materials, included 160 pounds of manure, though I’d prefer to think of it as ‘compost’. Using the garden claw, I tilled up the entire vegetable garden and pulled the weeds while Matt ...

the travel update 4

ITEM THE FIRST: Our Jamaica travel journal is finally complete. It was really hard to go back and look at all those photos again! Sigh. ITEM THE SECOND: I bought flights to Vegas for Kate’s birthday. (Hobbit Travel can be relied upon for awesome deals.) Now I have to talk to our landlord about his properties there, because it’s possible ...

Have I mentioned…

…that Steve’s Tire and Auto is the best? Please don’t confuse them with Bobby and Steve’s, which sucks. I dropped OD off there after work yesterday to have the snow tires swapped out. Snow wheels, actually. They wanted to know what I thought of the Blizzak tires (they made a world of difference… my car was pretty much undriveable in ...