- Getting to go to Sea Rim State Park for spring break
- Beach camping
- The fact that we got to go camping at all for the first time in over a year
- I’ve gotten both of my COVID shots
- I’ve been enjoying participating in the March Matness Pilates challenge
Tag: spring
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The Best of It: Spring Has Sprung Edition
Astrid loves car rides -
The Best of It: Rabbit, Rabbit Edition
Just a reminder - I’m scheduled to get my first COVID vaccine tomorrow!
- Leftover lasagna for breakfast.
- Living in a place where I can pay my rent online.
- The egg and chorizo torta at the Mexican food trailer up the street
- Homemade kimchi in my fridge
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The Best of It: Working Weekend Edition
Astrid loves her monkey - I can finally access all of my summer course sites.
- I’m only teaching two sections this summer.
- Those sections are both the same course! Only one prep set each week!
- I can finally blow my nose again post-surgery, and it’s a wonderful feeling.
- Getting a bike repair manual, so I can learn to do my own work!
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The Best of It: Titled Well After the Fact Edition
Perfection - Making the perfect loaf of sourdough bread.
- I have a haiku in the newest issue of Frogpond.
- I was able to have a necessary surgery to help heal a chronic sinus problem that has failed to respond to all other treatment.
- Revising a new piece of writing and getting really excited about the shape it’s taking.
- Bringing all of my laundry in from the line before the rain started.
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The Best of It: It’s a Holiday Weekend? Edition
The glorious homemade pasta - John’s homemade pasta and pesto were incredible.
- Little Deli is back open for takeout!
- Taking Astrid on her first picnic.
- Being outside in nature.
- Having proper clippers for my quarantine haircuts.
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The Best of It: New Friends Edition
Astrid as we pulled away from the shelter. - Sweet new dog friends!
- Astrid is a total sweetheart. She is pretty chill, and she loves sniffing things.
- Austin Pets Alive does great work. (Donate if you can!)
- There will be homemade pasta for dinner tonight.
- John made some excellent chocolate chip cookies this week.
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The Best of It: Last Day of Teaching (for now) Edition
Personal cheese plate for my friend’s Instagram live gallery talk - Cold brew coffee
- Onion jam
- Pimento cheese
- Waaaay less screen time starting tomorrow
- All cheese, really
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The Best of It: Everybody’s Eating on the Weekend Edition
The perfect key lime pie - Key lime pie
- Chicago-style Italian beef
- Homemade French onion dip
- Kak’ik
- Beans and rice, in all its various forms
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The Best of It: Projects Edition
My first quilt! - Successfully completing my first quilt.
- Having all the supplies for my next quilt project on order.
- Having supplies for my first weaving project in many years on order.
- Gist Yarn has a really nice variety of free pattern PDFs, many of which are aimed at beginners.
- My first garden harvest.
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The Best of It: I’m Still a Busy Bee Edition
Homemade bread is always the best. Always. - The Golden Vietnam tea in this month’s Tea Embassy shipment
- Peanut noodles
- I am done grading the big project for all of my ENGL 2311 sections
- I had a great practice with one of my Pilates teacher training classmates this afternoon
- I loved my first SRY Studio class!