Bits and Pieces

 

Just building furniture in the living room on a Saturday night...carry on...

 



 

 Sometimes I come home to the unexpected.  Was not expecting this.  I didn't even know we still had the trains.

Aren't these tomatoes cute?  Some kind of heirloom from Seed Savers. (Too lazy to look them up right now...) I have tons of them out in the garden.  I would have picked more, but my phone was trying to blow-up with tornado warnings and the like and I finally decided I should come inside.  I only went out for the rosemary anyway.

Crafting while making dinner.  This is part of a fairly large project (for me, anyway).  At some point, you will get to see all of that. 

Dinner=Spinach salad with artichoke hearts, a few different olives/marinated mushrooms and garlic, white bean/basil hummus and those tiny tomatoes.  I thought we had pine nuts.  I was wrong.  Beans and crash potatoes.  Search "crash potatoes" for a recipe.  There's a million posts on the net about them.

Alicia made a chocolate lava cake.

Bad Weather = Bad Light

My First Game

1.  Let us not talk about the score.  The only thing I'm going to say about that is the words to most of our cheers seem wildly inappropriate in some situations.  We did them anyway.  I assume that's what cheerleaders are supposed to do?  Hmm...I told them when I took this I didn't know anything about cheerleading.

2.  I realized one of my primary duties is to keep them continually informed whether we are offense or defense.  While I don't know a thing about cheerleading, I do know about football.  Spent most of the game trying to explain how the game is played.  Now, I must say, that while the defense/offense thing seems like it should be an obvious thing, it isn't.  Because I'm down on the track, I'm short, all the benchwarmers create a line that blocks the view and JV football is absolutely frustrating to me in that they seem to just stay most of the game at mid-field which makes it difficult for me to keep track of what's happening as a result of everyone always being in the same place. 

I'm guessing it's probably really hard to be a cheerleader if you don't understand the game or how the cheers line up to what is going on in the game.  At one point I said "Don't we have a sack that quarterback cheer?" They said "We can do that one right now?"  "Umm...yeah."  So cute.  What has happened to me?  I promise there was a "me" at some point that would not have found anything but disgust with that question.

3.  I had fun. :-)

The Big Announcement...

This is huge in my world.  If you don't know me, then I guess you are probably all "So what's the big deal?".  Trust me...it's a big deal.  In July I would have told you I could more easily see myself knocking off the 7-11 than this.  Anything other than this.

Fortunately, photographic technology exists, because nobody believes it when I tell them.  And then when it registers...hahaha...kind of funny to watch play out.

I've had a couple of weeks to come up with some sort of explanation.  Easier said than done.  Get this book and read the whole thing (because it's good).  The applicable part starts on page 175 and goes to the end.  What else can I say?

Tomorrow is the first game for me.  I was going to wait until then to let y'all know about this.  Pictures, you know.  But I just realized they posted this beauty on the school website.  So I stole it.  Real-time pictures tomorrow.  :-)

I'll save the rest of this story for some other time.  There's more...trust me...there's more.

Now...study this picture.  Doesn't it look like I have a freakishly long arm with a giant hand?  Like they photoshopped someone else's arm/hand on there?  Maybe they did.  Because nothing on my body is freakishly long.

Some other world I live in...

There will be a post on Saturday telling you exactly what I've gotten myself into.  For now, let's just say I'm hooked up with a bunch of girls who like to do activities in the name of "bonding" and if it's someone's birthday...all the better.

 

 

Birthday party/Tie Dye Bonding party.  In my room.  After school.  Today.  Because when the last bell rang, I still had 7 hours left until I could come home.  In the name of "Back to School Night".  Yay?  They wanted to come Friday.  I told them it had to be today.  ;-)

 This is what they do in the name of bonding.  No doubt, texting each other or someone else within eye's reach.

They invited boys who tried to eat all the snacks.

Someone made "Tye Dye Cake".

I'm tired.  No question about that.

Fall, maybe?

Suddenly, the mornings got chilly.  Which is kind of awesome considering my room at school does not have AC and last week it was about 122 degrees in there every day and the kids were like wet dogs.  Blah.  Today was much better.

Fall=winter squash season.  I LOVE squash soup.  A lot.  Was just planning on having soup, but when I went to the garden to get rosemary I noticed there were ripe tomatoes.  Who knew?  I spaced that garden awhile ago and haven't really been out there since.  The kids had talked me into this nutrition-free bread and I decided to make open face sandwiches.  I got hooked on these sandwiches (with better bread) at the beach; bread/hummus/sprouts.  So good.  On better bread, that is.  So, soup (that I added spinach and white beans to) and mediocre sandwiches.

Will perhaps be MIA until the end of the week.  I have three back-to-school nights in a row.  I wasn't planning on going to some of them (because listening to 7 people read syllabi to me each night is BORING), but the kids at school told me that all white people go to that stuff.  So...huh.  I guess I have to go?

Marigold and MollyAnne

I gave my chickens away today.  Because we don't eat eggs and why would we need chickens if we aren't going to eat the eggs?  Is it weird to be sad about that?  I raised these girls from chicks.  What kind of person gets attached to chickens anyway?  Even if said chickens were all endearing with their little habit of knocking on the glass when they wanted a treat? 

Sigh...we are down to 2 pets.  So close to being "normal".... 

To confirm I'm still alive...

I realize it's been a long while.  10 days or so.  I've been busy.  Since the last post, I spent 3 days at the beach and had to weather through the whole second week of school.  The second week is hard.  Because that's when the kids decide to come out of their shells and I don't know them yet.  Trying to remember if the third week is easier than the second.  I hope.

Sometimes I'm all in the mood to be a short order cook.  Like today.  Because I was productive with cleaning and that always puts me in a good mood.  Tofu for Ryan and pork for the kids.  It only goes so far, though.  Brown rice for all even though the kids would have preferred basmati.

Vegan pear cake just because.  Just because I bought a ton of pears for juicing and the thing about pears is they get really ripe, really quick.