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I’ve been gone for an age, huh? Since the last time I was here my produce subscription started up again. I’m on my 3rd week. I haven’t been taking pictures this year, but so far I’ve gotten lettuce, kale, rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus, mint, oregano, cilantro, mushrooms, scallions, and spinach. Rhubarb is new to me - I made a very yummy braised dish with the rhubarb, kale and spinach. I’m hoping to make some strawberry-rhubarb desserts this weekend.

Well, here is a cool tip I learned today: tomatoes store better if you store them upside down. Can’t wait to try that out!

10am: reminded boss #1 that I needed to do XYZ for a project
before it moves forward to the next phase

2:30pm: boss #1 tells me that I need to do XYZ

3:00pm: boss #2 tells me that I need to do XYZ

um…hello??? I’m the one who brought it up in the first place. Perhaps you also want to tell me my hair is curly?

I've got a couple recommendations for laugh out loud books:

1) Anything by David Sedaris. Me Talk Pretty One Day is a good start - his short stories are some of the funniest things you'll ever read.
2) Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell - I probably thought this was funny because so many of Julie's cooking mishaps have happened to me. This is going to be a movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams this year.

On long trips I like to read and there is nothing I hate more than having someone jibber jabber at me while I'm trying to read. I have a bit a of a solitary streak in me, so spending the day "alone" wouldn't bother me.

I was 13 and my mom and I went to go see Cocoon. I inherited my perpetually lateness from my mother, so the two of us didn’t get to the theater until after the previews had started. We walked into the dark, crowded theater and I immediately see two empty seats to our right.

“Mom - there are two seats here”

“No there aren’t”

“Yes there are”

“No - come on, I see some down here”

We walk toward the seats and I see that there is only one open seat.

“Mom - there is only one seat”

“No there are two”

She proceeds to enter the row, and “sits” in the seat. The trouble is that there is a man in the seat. He gasps, my mom screeches “oh!” Mortified, I bolt to the back of the theater to the original seats, and curl up in a ball on the ground.

My mother can’t find me because the temporary blindness that had clearly afflicted her that afternoon. So she finds an usher, and the two of them walk up and down the aisle while she calls out “Katy!”.

If I could have burrowed to China I would have.

She finally found me and we enjoyed the movie. But it was a while until I let her take me again.

It is tough playing fetch in the mud at the bark park…

This could be an ongoing series…books I never finished. I'm not the type of person who feels compelled to finish every book I start. I have a bookshelf full of books that I started and abandoned for a variety of reasons. So I decided to choose a book that each time I see it on the shelf I regret having put it down and not picking it up again.

I'd started reading this book before I joined my book club. I'm not a particularly fast reader, and one book a month is about my limit. I was really enjoying it, but at some point it got put back on the bookshelf and forgotten. It is an excellent biography of Benjamin Franklin, who is such an interesting person living in a fascinating time.

I'm so thankful for this prompt, because now I'm going to take it off the shelf and put it somewhere that makes it much more likely I'll pick it up again!

About a year ago I purchased an Alsons High Efficiency Shower Head from Choose Renewables. Being a total procrastinator, I didn’t get around to installing it until this past Sunday.

I was a bit concerned that it would impact my water pressure, since my unruly thick curly hair doesn’t cooperate with low water pressure. But I am thrilled with this showerhead. Not only is the pressure unchanged, but it feels so much better than the old one.  Plus, I actually think it does a better job of removing soap and shampoo.

So if you are looking for a quick and relatively inexpensive way to green your life, try out an Alsons High Efficiency Showerhead!

Ok…not pajamas really, but close enough - sweatshirt and yoga pants.

1) It is more comfortable

2) I don’t need to worry about making a mess of my clothes when I cook/clean