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[Oct. 4th, 2009|11:52 am] |
Yesterday was pretty neat.
Made canned cinnamon rolls for breakfast, which were a bit over-sweet, but went well with water. Then Bill dropped me off at the school's Fall Fest.
I do wish I'd remembered to bring money--the farmer's market, in particular, caught my attention, with pumpkins of various sizes. I think I want two of the small, 1x1 or so pumpkins--I think that'd suit me very well, and I wouldn't feel so bad when I totally mess up cutting a face into it. (Note to self: Get pie recipe for the innards.) But I guess I'm also glad I didn't buy one, since I ended up walking home and lugging a pumpkin, even a small one, might not be fun.
The tiny little gourds (I don't know if those are also pumpkins) also just made me fall in love. Two for a dollar, there. Awww! I also have a tutorial for how to make candles out of those, but I don't think I'm gonna try that before I try to make anything more conventional.
And in any case, there was also free cotton candy, free nachos, free milk, and various members of the International Club had made food for everyone. (I came too late for India, but I did get the others.) Let's see . . . I got to watch fuzzballs coming off of the sun, courtesy of the Mohawk Valley Astronomy Club. (I wish I could remember what those were called!) The classic car show was neat; there were a lot of really shiny cars in lasting styles, many of which looked as though they were specifically designed to chew up and spit out lesser cars.
I didn't use any of the inflatable games--everyone using it was shorter than four feet tall, so I figured they weren't for me.
Anyway, there was really only so much to do, and so after a while, I walked home. Took a nap. Then Bill came home.
It was a REALLY nice day. So Bill decided we should ride bikes up on the trail by the canal. It was awesome! I mean, small grade-changes still are REALLY noticeable, but it was mostly flat, and totally enjoyable, and really pretty. I hope we get at least one more pretty day, 'cause we both seem to enjoy riding. And we definitely felt as though we'd been exercising after.
On that note, I'll have to take him to the school's indoor, heated pool at some point. (Non-students have to pay $2 to use it, and it's got funny hours, but I figure we can work that.)
It was really nice, in any case, though one of Bill's derailers sticks rather a lot--he thinks he'll have to change it. We got new seats, because biking makes our crotches hurt, and he got a new helmet, because getting the cheapest one last time resulted in a helmet he could never, ever forget he was wearing.
We also went grocery shopping.
I forgot the list, but we picked up a lot of non-perishable stuff, and some perishable stuff--for instance, potatoes, with which I made some awesome home fries this morning. Basically, we're gonna be doing pretty well for a while. Forgot to get pancake mix (I always let the buttermilk go bad, so from-scratch is turning out to be uneconomical), but I do believe we remembered everything else . . . it's good. No excuse not to make food now, in any case.
We then went to see Surrogates. Which failed a bit on internal consistency, as far as I'm concerned, but I really enjoyed it as a what-if. Ignore the plot and just conceptualize what's happening that ain't being covered by the movie. Surrogate insurance policies, for instance. I enjoyed it. :D
We also saw twenty minutes or so of Zombieland while waiting for Surrogates to start (I don't think we were technically supposed to do that, but we did), and have decided we need to see that. Possibly on video, though.
It was rather a full day, but I had a lot of fun. So did Bill. And then I made an excellent breakfast today.
So, y'know, go me! |
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