pizza-knish.

i ordered an eco-heater today! yay! it is (supposed) to be here friday! horray for free 2-day shipping! it'll be nice having that this year to keep the bedroom warm. (instead of the little "scary" space heater we've had in the past) i'm excited for it to get here, and i even had it delivered to work so i could make sure i'd get it :]

anyhow. had a nice dinner with mavis, jacob and scott, at cielito lindo. i love that place, but their horchata leaves something to be desired. (even so, it is still great food!) and the company was great, too! -- oh, and i had lunch with my co-worker, angela, today, and that was great too! she's such a great person, and so much fun!

by the way, i am proud of myself! even though it was a shorter month, i had more blog posts this month, than all of last month! horray for that!

four totally random notes, before i put the computer away.
1) a dilly bar from the DQ sounds simply amazing right now
2) my eyes are so amazingly sore from being tired
3) i'm excited to go to the pumpkin patch soon!
4) i think it is going to storm tonight! yay!

as of this minute

today has been a pretty impressive day!  kinda.

i had a pretty terrible dream about someone very close to me dying.  i don't want to dwell on it, it made me feel terrible, and lent itself to a lack of sleep.  anyhow, i ended up sleeping through my HWC discussion 'cos it wasn't until after 5a that i finally fell asleep.

so i took the opportunity to beef up on my REL terms.  i'm super glad i did, 'cos it made my exam go that much better!  (i'm assuming)  i felt like i did fairly well on the exam.  though a few of the 50!!!  terms i was a bit confused about.

okay, before i took the test (GASP non-linear timeline!) i made some delicious masala chai.  ohhhh man, i'm so glad i bought this madhur jaffrey book! 

http://www.amazon.com/Madhur-Jaffrey-Indian-Cooking/dp/0764156497/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

if you come over, i'll gladly make you some of the tea!  (and food if you're willing to stay for a bit, 'cos i'm a bit slow at cooking indian food)

alright.  i just got back from a brisk bike ride!  it was so nice.  it's about 45°F outside, and the autumn chill felt amazing on my face!  i probably should have gone a bit longer, but my ears were getting a bit cold.  i'm going to try and bike every day until the first day it drops below 35°F  as the high temperature.  (unless it's raining, 'cos it's pretty miserable biking in the rain)

i really ought to do some cleaning around the house, but am instead laying on the couch with ruby, typing away, and watching the cosby show.  the only thing that could make it better would be a foot rub!  hahaha!  (or maybe a diet pepsi)

אין לי זמן לעשות שום דבר

i'd love to be able to write in hebrew on here more often, but the נקודות do not work on המחשב שלי.  

anyhow.  i can't believe fall break is already over.  it was such a whirlwind.  i painted the kitchen, brought ruby to the vet & the groomer, made a fantastic dinner for sara and micah, spent a bit of time with the family, spent a bit of time with scott, did laundry, cleaned the house, did yardwork...

i did so much, in such a short period of time, and am so exhausted!  i needed to shave my head/trim my beard, but i just ran out of time.  

oh, i bought a radiator style heater.  it is so amazingly nice.  it really warms up the room, and it's perfect for our little place.  

one of the dishes i made for sara and micah was amazingly delicious!  it was this potato/cauliflower dish with a cumin/ginger sauce.  it was a pretty complex recipe, but it tasted so fantastic!  

for now i think i'll just go lie down 'cos i'm pretty tired today.  tomorrow will be just as busy.

sicky poo

blah, i woke up around 3a today with a sore throat.  i was really hoping it was just from all the bad allergies.  alas, it was not.  i've had a bad sore throat since then.  and my head is all stuffy, and i coughed constantly in class today.  

but that's alright.  i took a benedryl and now i feel really loopy (i'm a cheap date, what can i say)  i kinda like how i feel after i take a bendryl, but my mouth always gets dried out after a few hours.  

on a completely unrelated note:

i have two big ol' butternut squashes, i'm at a quandary for how i should cook them.  i can make my never fail curried squash soup, but i'm getting kinda burnt out on it.  so i have to figure out what to do now.  

okay.  not substantive.  i'll write more tomorrow, when i'll (G-d willing) be feeling better.

shalom folksters.

my version of heaven?

if there is a heaven (this is a concept i still struggle with) it is catered with giant trays of muncher's cream cheese doughnuts.  i realize this is a slap in the face to those of you who hold to plato socrates' ideologies, but i love me some pastries :)

anyhow, that weird reference to plato's Republic was my way of coming up with a tie-in to today's activities.  i made a stop by the douglas county democratic office to grab a couple of Obama bumper stickers.  it's in the same shopping center as the community merc where i get all of my bulk herbs and spices.  so i picked up a crap ton of them.  fun right?  (at least it is for me).  i also walked to muncher's and got a cream cheese doughnut.  i haven't had one in nearly a year, and i'd forgotten the amazingly delicious taste of it.  

um, okay, sorry, rambling.  i just wanted to say that even though i had my classes, i had a pretty fantastic day.  now, i need to finish doing a lot of reading, and then write some papers.  bleh!