I haven’t cried in my bacon or even needed to go hide myself upstairs in well over a month, so I feel like I’m doing pretty well staying at home with LG most of the time. As I mentioned last week, we went to the library (and are going again today, in fact) and the recent nice weather has meant we can go out for walks/runs, so just getting out of the confinements of four walls has been very helpful for both of our sanity.
We’ve also been getting out in the backyard more, watering the garden (me) and getting muddy as SHIT (not me) and playing with bubbles. I miss working, I really do, but at the same time, I spent the better part of a recent afternoon rocking and patting a stuffed rhino (“baby!”) and I never did get the opportunity to do that at my day job, so…
I’m still applying and interviewing for jobs, so I’m sure that means all this “woo-hoo things are good” will be uprooted soon. Until then, I’ll be here rocking a rhino to nigh’ nigh’.
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Whoa, did our MS walk fundraising take OFF. We’re in fifth place for fundraising in our county and even though it’s not about winning (yes it is) that is pretty awesome considering we’ve only been at it a little over a week. THANK YOU all who’ve donated! (And shameless ask for money right about….NOW.)
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I’ve been making a lot of food recently (as usual), but have been doing a shit job of taking pictures or following recipes. Here are a few things we’ve had recently, though.
Holly’s Caramelized Italian Pork Chops with Sweet Onion Jam (a long-time favorite here.)
Eggs for breakfast every day is pretty nice, not gonna lie.
Mad Men premiere dinner! Lamb and yogurt sauce, fingerling potatoes, and sauteed asparagus. NOT TOO SHABBY.
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I finally returned the favor to the neighbor who brought me daffodils awhile back and brought her roses from my garden. And then I walked over and chatted with her for a bit and if you know me, you know this is a huge deal, as I’m like the least neighborly person I know.
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LG has started saying some two-word phrases (“sit down!”, “no way!”, “more please”) which is a pretty big deal considering she didn’t say many words even a few months ago.
Yesterday she was letting me sit in peace and do my crossword puzzle, so I let her have at it with her play kitchen and she kept saying “wa-wa” and pointing to the sink and I was like, “Yeah, water goes in the sink!” and she was like, “Uh-oh!” and I was like, “It’s okay! Now who was Secretary of State from 1980-81?” and then I later found out she had dumped all her water into her play sink and it was all over the coffee table. Uh-oh indeed.
She used to call me Ma, but over the past few days has started calling me Mommy and I die. I JUST DIE.
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I am highly suspect and a little terrified of businesses who change the first letters of their name to all be Ks. (Example: the Kountry Kafe.) It’s just a little too veiled in antisemitism for me, you know? (Some people who used to live down the street from us have a company where neither word starts with a K and yet they changed both the Cs to Ks and why is that necessary? I THINK I KNOW.)
So yeah, that seems like a good place to end. Happy Wednesday, friends! What’s going on with you?