Updates

Waxing Update (the final installment): One week later... everything's actually doing pretty good now that the bleeding and bumps are gone. Things are now smooth and feelin  good. My lower legs are the only area where I'm starting to see hair grow back, and that's really minimal. Maybe there's something to this waxing after all...

LOST Update: finished season two! watched the bonus features and I hate that the producers and writers alternate between saying that they had grand plans from the start and that they had no idea what was going to be in the hatch etc. indicating that there are no grand plans. This had better not be somebody's dream or I'm going to write angry letters. (I'll writ

e a letter of complaint over a tv show plot and not politics?!)

CSA Update: We got kohlrabi this week. Lots of it. Plus some good stuff. What the heck is kohlrabi? It looks really alien. Some are purple, some are white... why have I never eaten it before? Or really heard of it? 

I was vegetarian until age 8 and then again from age 18-30 (now I'm 31, but that's another story). I was in a vegetarian coop in college where I learned lots of new things like tahini and quinoa and that I love blue cheese. I don't recall kohlrabi. 

I went to a mostly-vegetarian hippy grad school for 2 years where we shopped at organic coops all over the country. I learned about Braggs and TVP and that I love garlic. I don't recall kohlrabi.

I don't own many cookbooks, but they're all vegetarian and some are very crunchy. I don't recall kohlrabi.

Now I need to force feed it to my family bc we invested in it. Maybe we'll love it. But my friend Jenny said she eats it raw on a salad like a radish. Radishes are yuck, so I'm not hopeful.

best moment of the day: we were playing at Masonville (gotta love that I can take my kids to work with me sometimes!) on the new hillside boardwalk and blowing bubbles and laughing. Jillian ran ahead to a part that we hadn't been to yet and said "Mommy! There's a mulberry tree here and the birds have been eating some mulberries!" and darn if she wasn't right. such a smart girl!

worst moment of the day: working from home in the library while my MIL watched the girls in the rest of the house. That part, actually, was pretty great. The crappy part was when I had done all the easy stuff and now had to tackle some of my harder projects and I didn't want to and I procrastinated by hitting the kitchen and eating lots of stuff that I wasn't hungry for and didn't need. Bad girl. 

Thoughts of the day: We're going to the Grand Canyon with some friends in ONE WEEK! And I haven't planned every moment of our itinerary like I usually do. 

The one other time this happened was when we traveled with friends in Ireland for a friend's wedding. Everyone picked a few things that they wanted to do and we all did all of them, fitted around the wedding schedule. That worked really well, even though I think Mike looked at more green hillsides than he cared to and I spent more time in Dublin that I ever needed to.

But we had fun because we were together. Mike (Boynton) stumbled over the historic site of the Battle of Boynton thanks to my random hills. And I will always love Guinness thanks to fond associations of Dublin.  All the other adventures were exciting for everyone, I think. Although maybe Jeremiah didn't love our high-speed, windy and curvy drive on narrow roads through high hills that made him barf out the car window repeatedly. And then we got there and it was closed. But the rest of us are still smiling with the memory!

So anyhow, I'm trying to relax about not having everything scheduled. Usually, if I haven't made any plans, we end up doing nothing because that's Jeremiah's natural state (whereas I'm always moving). By not scheduling everything, I think I'm sharing the vacation time with our friends and their desires.  I'm trusting that we won't miss anything!  But I'm reading my tour books anyhow, just in case.