Category: Random Thoughts
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Yikes! Veggies!
This is what Justin came home with today from the farmer’s market: our first installment from our CSA subscription. That’s a lot of greens! We also got a dozen free-range eggs, and the farmer gave us her phone number in case we needed recipe ideas. They’re so incredibly nice. So now I’m off to bury…
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Just a post
One of the benefits of working at a bed and breakfast is the leftovers. After all the guests have had their fill (and if there’s any left), I get to taste and nibble. Mondays are always nice, because Adam, our other breakfast chef, preps the dishes for me, and he is just amazing with eggs.…
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A very merry Christmas
We’re back in Austin after a wonderful trip to see our familia in West Texas. This really was a great Christmas for me, a turning point of sorts. I had become increasingly bah-humbug-ish as the year passed, dreading all the hustle and bustle of the holidays. But my first night back in my parents’s house,…
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My new obsession
Move over, Harry Potter…my newest literary find is the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Chad lent me his copy of the first book in the series, The Golden Compass, and I devoured it within a few days. I quickly went to Book People and bought all three books (aren’t they pretty? I love…
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Some enchanted evening
Last night we joined our friends Rob and Shara for dinner and ballet. In all my twenty-seven years on this earth, I had not seen the Nutcracker. Isn’t that sad? We started with dinner at East Side Cafe, one of my favorite nice-but-not-too-pretentious-with-entrees-under-$20 restaurants. The restaurant has a garden in the back that supplies many…