So I got a book several years ago on candy making. Mostly chocolates, but it has things like marshmallow and marzipan and maple sugar candies (and other things that I haven't been as motivated to try yet)... and candied fruit. When I read the candied fruit section, I decided I wanted to try it on a small pumpkin. That was in spring, and, well, ( Read more... )

( moved stuff, waterpark, totally knocked out )

( short version: moving 3 blocks away and living alone )

( another dream )

So MIT started it's summer hours and is closing the gym at 9. We found this out last night by finishing up around 9:30, going downstairs, and being locked out of the locker room. It was also dark in rockwell. I wound up going to the johnson side, finding someone whose role I couldn't identify who got a few other guys who I also couldn't identify, ( Read more... )

( I'm fine. Doctor said to pretend I was doing something more exciting. )

Last year I didn't get a great crop of flowers, I think for a variety of reasons. Friday I planted some seeds to start off, and yesterday 2 sets of them had started to sprout. Today, 3 more sets are looking happy. I will have more rabbit plants this year, when the weather gets good! Now, if only march would relax and let us get warm again. At this ( Read more... )

This morning on the way to work, the license plate in front of me was "LRNCPR." Which of course I needed to parse out and was expecting something a little more vanity/smartass. But when I succeeded at reading I felt dumb for not getting it right off but it still made me smile because, well, it's a nice PSA and I was expecting something much less ( Read more... )

I am feeling kind of obnoxiously amused by my incrementing soon. I know I'll annoy people with it because I still have plenty of incrementing to do and people can be touchy about it. I've really enjoyed telling my cousins to get off my lawn. It scares my mom & her generation, which is kind of understandable- it kinda scares me that they're the age ( Read more... )

I feel like I've been living in a somewhat stressy state of flux where I'm just waiting on a handful of things to sort themselves out before I can move on. I don't feel the need to be specific online, but one I've been ranting to my roommates about 2 days straight. Another I was pretty sure was resolved the way I wanted it to be resolved, and, in ( Read more... )