no, really. and listen past the first weird harmony part.

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no, seriously, i'm packing. i swear. (but go listen to their version of la vie en rose - it's loveley.) right, packing. i'm on it.

i really need to go to bed because i have to be up at 520 for my VA rotation again tomorrow, but i'm just so wound and awake and loving this song:

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**dances off to bed**

j remembered this recipe of his mom's as "soak a bunch of cucumbers in a bowl of vinegar for a day". surprisingly, he wasn't far off. and i'm so proud of my first ever attempt at pickling anything, that i felt like sharing ( Read more... )

...for a duck!!

good idea: packing your car the night before a weekend of travels that begins with an early friday morning.

bad idea: packing your raincoat into said car without checking the morning's forecast. one soggy trip to the car, coming right up!

(best idea: using your 10 extra minutes of prep time in the morning to post on lj. hehe)

i'm clinging to the hope that these are all jokes...


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...your garden won't even grow weeds.

upside: no weeding.
downside: no veggies, either.

houston, i think we have a flop.

(now how do we deal with the fact that we have a large, square barren patch of lawn which is neither garden no grass?? no, really, mr landlordsir, it's a selling point, i swear!!)

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hahaha

i made some pretty awesome pesto tonight, garlic scape pesto, to be precise. have you ever had garlic scapes? i hadn't until tonight. i'd sampled a scape pesto at the farmer's market a while back, and was planning to saute them (because i'd heard that's what you do with scapes and i'd just bought them because i think they're pretty - haha, yes, you ( Read more... )

oh, how my body loathed monday today. but grassroots - a 4day festival of music, dancing and debauchery - was oh so worth it. and because the music is still haunting me, here in roughly chronological performance order (because there was no better way to sort such eclectic music) is a highlight of musicians who were so wonderful that i have to go ( Read more... )