It’s a *good* life.

I would just like to mention, in case I haven’t lately, that I love my life. I have a job which, while boring, pays very well and allows me to work at home. The disadvantage, as I told my manager a while ago, to working at home is that it can be impossible to tell the difference between taking a break and vacuuming the living room. On the other hand, it’s also difficult to differentiate between taking a break and baking chocolate chip cookies. :) I have a second job…

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blueberry kit!

Ted made blueberry pancakes. I made blueberry syrup. :)

accomplishments!

Yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day. I got a batch of blueberry jam made, biked 4 miles (*boy* is it beautiful out!), and read a couple of C.S. Friedman books. Today I must make raspberry jam and check out the raspberry bush I pillaged last week to see if it’s got more berries for me. :) miles to Lothlorien: 145

moooore raspberries

During lunch I took myself over to the neighbor’s house and picked two quarts of raspberries, which is enough to make a batch of jam with but didn’t strike me as ‘too much’. Although, I have to tell you, that in looking at the berry bushes, I find it hard to believe they’ve actually done any picking. Well. At least not on the end that they told me I could pick from, next to the road and away from the house. There wasn’t any evidence of berries having been picked.…

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It’s as natural as artificial gets!

Wow. Except for checking my email last night to see if I had Angie’s cell phone number (I didn’t, wah!) I didn’t turn the computer on all weekend. Go me! Instead I, let’s see. Emily and I went to The Manchurian Candidate, which we enjoyed, then went out to dinner and had ice cream, which we also enjoyed. :) I came home and watched the rest of season 1 Dead Zone, 4 episodes or something (I skipped the one I knew I’d seen), because Ted was still off dipnetting with…

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