Archive for May, 2009

Peanut butter

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Today I thought I knew what I would do. But it didn’t work out that way–the needed camera necessary for a trip to the NY Historical Society was hidden somewhere unknown, and with time ticking away, I found my plans unwound into a messy tangle.
Lunch, then, would not arrive with my husband around 1 pm.
So [...]

Two pairs of tights, and a dream of Chuck

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Image from stickers and donuts.
My one shopping moment of note, this entire semester (if we don’t count the trip up the Swiss mountain), happened late one Wednesday evening, after a three-day marathon of paper writing. I rewarded myself by indulging in a bit an imaginary reality by purchasing two pairs of boldly colored tights [...]

of taxation and conferences

Friday, May 1st, 2009

April 14th, 2009. The mad, final push to finish filling out my federal and (two) state income tax forms. I finish. Submit. It gets rejected for my husband typing in his ss# incorrectly.  Funny, in that he cannot recall the number assisgned to identify him.
All in all, we “broke even” this year– we owed the [...]

Spring Break

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I left a day earlier than my husband for our spring break family reunion, all the result of spending an 8 hour layover in London. I have a college friend who now lives outside London, and we arranged to meet at Paddington station. So my first expense of the trip was to stop at a [...]

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