Best Damn New Parents

Little Molly has come home and is a snug as a bug in a rug.

Milo's got a brand new bag

Or just a toy that Bob and Cynthia sent him. He's in a new place and has pretty much destroyed the last set of toys he was given (thank you Beth!). I knew he'd love this. I think this is going to be the method for taking off a few kitty pounds. Now, if only I could teach my brain to think that I should run up and down the house after the red light!

Check it out here.

Bebesols

That's how I said vegetables when I was a kid. I know, can you stand how cute I was?

I decided to buy a farm share this summer. I did it for a couple of reasons. One, because it's just GOOD to get fresh vegetables when you (I) can. Fresh vegetables do taste SO much better (are you enjoying my liberal use of CAPS?)than store-bought vegetables that are probably shipped in from California and Texas. So not only will I be eating fresher, I'll be doing my part to cut down on putting extra carbon into the environment.

The share is coming from Heaven's Harvest Farm, which, given its exchange must be somewhere in the middle of the state ( I have no idea, where is New Braintree? It must not be near Braintree). Oh yes look at that, it's almost in Western, MA. Well, thank you farmers in New Braintree for bringing my vegetables out here for the next 15 weeks!

It's a single share so I'm not sure how much that will really be, but I will surely update when it starts coming in. I'm a little concerned because a lot of the recipes on the website include kale and I have never eaten kale and quite honestly, it is not something that sounds that appealing to me. Remember, I am urban. I eat cheeseburgers.

In other food news, I had a coupon for a free kashi frozen meal and I would just like to pass on the YUM factor. This is not one of those products I am marketing for BzzAgent. It was really good. I am however Bzzing Bic soleil razors which I have to say are also very good. In a non gastronomical way of course.

Oh look. The Dorchester fireworks have started for the summer. JOY. Let's hope it's fireworks. Things in town have not been so safe lately.

Trippage

I spent the weekend in North Carolina with the fam. We have started a new thing (tradition if you will) of celebrating everyone and everything whenever we can all get together. We started it in Atlanta last month and continued it in North Carolina this weekend.

If there was something to do this weekend in the Triangle, we did it. We played endless games of Scrabble (because it never gets old and because my sister needs a bum whooping), took naps, and caught up on everyone's jobs and activities.

We visited the Duke Lemur Center which was really neat. I knew nothing about lemurs, and sadly, don't know a whole lot about each of these kinds of lemurs because I was too busy taking pictures. But I did learn SOME things. Here are some pictures. They look kind of cuddly. Kind of. Check out those feet!







We shared some Egyptian food for dinner one night and ate pretty much any kind of junk food that existed at a street fair and at a Friday night Durham Bulls game. It was probably the most exciting and possibly longest game I've ever seen live, but Chris Richard hit TWO grand slams! What's the chance? Always a good time and the cheapest, most fun night out anywhere. Fireworks after EVERY game!

We spent a lot of time fawning over cats at my parents' house and at my sister and her husband's house. This is at my sister's house where my mother got rid of an entire bag of treats in about 10 minutes.

Here are pictures of the Scrap Exchange where my sister sits on the Board of Directors. It's this very organized place full of all sorts of scraps and pieces for artists, and crafters, and people who do things with stuff. It's obvious that it's a place that a lot of people care about and a lot of people put a lot of work into (a lot).

We also took a loverly walk through Duke Gardens, strangely a place I had never been before in all my trips down there.




Oh requisite cute cat picture. This was Molly being 'cat in a bag'.

They Came, and They're Gone

I love lilac season. Due to torrential downpours and hurricane force winds I didn't get to enjoy the ones at my stoop for as long as usual. Sadness! I did pick some off right at the beginning and put them in a vase in the living room which was lovely.

What is your favorite part of spring?

This is your trunk on SAT

I finally cleaned my trunk out post Spring season SAT tutoring. This is a lot of teachin. There is so much room left in my trunk now for summer fun!

Dear Wendy's...

...I do not eat fast food often (well if you don't count D'Angelo's and I don't). I probably go to McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger a total of 3 times a year. Two out of those three times I get a kids meal just to satisfy a craving for the disgustingness that fulfills me.

Last night, because I couldn't bear to wait for someone to make me a turkey sandwich, I went to the Wendy's drive-thru. Indeed, Wendy's is known to be the high-end of fast food, right?

Indeed food was good, and satisfying in that fast food disgustingness way. But when did a meal at Wendy's eclipse $7.00? For real? And when did they start serving liter sodas in cups for medium sized meal?

Fast food is neither recession nor obesity proof I guess and I am a perpetrator of both it seems.

Thanks for the yummy meal.

Love,

Kristen