Like a hot dog?

The post office was out of the cool stamps yesterday (Edgar Allen Poe, Chinese New Year Ox), so i went with the Sunflowers.

Bought a bunch of cardamom to fill up my empty jar in the cupboard; when i got home the jar was magically full. Hmm! The weeks to come will be filled with chai and rice pudding, and i finally have an excuse to make (one of our faves:) chocolate-chip pear bread. Yummmm. Hard to justify, really, but now i have all this cardamom, so, yeah. Sorry. It's gotta happen. Life is so tough that way.

Also:
A ferocious gamma-ray burst was recorded by NASA's Fermi Telescope. Cool stuff:

This burst's tremendous power and speed make it the most extreme recorded to date.

...wow, that just gives me the shivers. i love thinking about all of that stuff happening, way out there... among the stars and the spheres and the spirals and the spacedust. It's really awesome, in the true sense of the word. ;)



'Ta.

An Open Letter to a Fixer-upper.

Um, yeah...

Hugo? Next time you come over (after literally 6 months of having the money/supplies) to fix the sink, do me a solid and don't use my wooden salad bowl to collect the dirty water drippings? Thanks. It's just that it's one of the only things i have left from childhood, when we were an actual family and sometimes my mom made salad. I know it's flimsy, and has a chip on the edge, but seriously. Could you not have rummaged just a little more through my cupboards and discovered, say, a set of 3 crappy glass mixing bowls that you could have had your pick from? Seems not.

Well, next time anyway.

In all seriousness, though- thanks for the new sink! i am so glad i don't have to hold down the tap when i turn it on so it doesn't just pop straight up out of the back. i never realized how easy doing the dishes could be... it's miraculous. And as for the grout all over my (only, as it turns out) dishtowel- no worries. We'll just let bygones be bygones*.

*minute 9:40 on.