Winter roses

These cute little rose hip-like plum-fruit things are the perfect spot of color in the bleak pacific northwest winter landscape — even a little bit of sun showing through there. To be fair, it has been in the high 50s lately (looks like it might be even getting up into the low 60s next week [...]

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Pizza night

Well, the first week of school is finally over. It actually went by a little too quickly, but it was sort of fun. BF comes over every morning at 7:15 for breakfast, leaves by a little after 8 for class – Monday and Friday comes back and works on homework until I get home, Tuesday-Thursday [...]

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Turning, turning…

Today is officially the shortest day of the year – crazy right? Made a pot roast today, and these awesome parmesan herb popovers with Jules gluten free flour. They were excellent! I’ll post the recipe soon, along with all the rest – I promise! More BF time today (are you seeing a trend?) On an [...]

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My boyfriend’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble…

Ahhh, the first day of winter break…! Boyfriend comes home tonight! In two hours and 18 minutes!! In the meantime, I finished his scarf/Christmas present today! Isn’t it pretty? The yarn doesn’t photograph very well (it’s a dark, mossy green and kinda fuzzy) but you get the idea. I’m so excited it’s not even funny! [...]

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knit knit purl skip

Up at 7AM, showered, dressed and out the door by 7:25AM, at the dentist’s office shortly thereafter and curled up in the waiting room, listening to The Picture of Dorian Gray free through LibriVox on my iPhone. Seriously, LibriVox is a pretty spiffy organization – enlisting volunteers to read and record literature in the public [...]

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Frozen

Today, we cleaned. Everything. Six straight hours of cleaning. It also snowed briefly for multiple times, all of which stuck to the sidewalks, plants, lawns, roads, etc. because it’s been so bloody cold lately, the chances of it melting are obscenely small. It’s supposed to snow again more forcefully tomorrow and Tuesday, but hopefully it [...]

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Happy Chanukah!

Okay, I know, it’s the second night, I’m late, yadda yadda. It’s been a rough week! (I feel like I’ve been saying that a lot – time to for the quarter to be over? I think yes.) I don’t even want to talk about today. It was positively miserable and generally disappointing. Worst of all, [...]

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Of all things Hungarian…

Slept in until 11 (I know, I know- but I’m just so tired, all the time), made ricotta-filled blintzes for breakfast/lunch, went and had my labs done at the polyclinic and headed to my last class of the quarter. Autumn quarter went by so quickly, I can’t even tell you – it was August, I [...]

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sticky sticky

Today was our last Rome lecture; kind of a bittersweet moment, I’m so excited to finally be finished, but at the same time, I really love this class. After a brief (okay, two hour) nap, got up and made Jules’ gluten free sticky buns. They were really pretty easy and came out amazingly well – [...]

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Deep Freeze

Well, today was…ahem… cold. A lovely high of 33 F, with slick, crunchy sidewalks, frozen doorhandles and frostbitten (ok, not really) fingers. Fun, right? Thank God it’s not snowing. In other news, I finally met with Judi to fill out my graduation application. The necessary forms have been signed, sealed and delivered – I am [...]

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…

Woke up, got dressed, ran around to the JCC’s Chanukah Pajama Jam festival to help set up a booth. The highlight? Eastside Chabad (Lubavitch) had an oil press and barrel of olives setup and made olive oil RIGHT THERE. It was pretty awesome. Anyway, another chilly day: we finally cleaned out the impatiens and violets [...]

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crunchcrunch crinklecrinkle

I cannot tell you how lovely it was to spend a weekend not worrying about that bloody term paper. I didn’t even realize how much stress it was generating until I turned it in. Anyway, woke up around 8:30 this morning, only to find a frost-covered wonderland on my patio. It was a chilly 28 [...]

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it’s Christmastime

Happy December! As if right on queue, the temperature has dropped and the city has been decorated with shimmering lights in white, red and green. I love the Christmas season =)

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