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The Sunday Salon #11

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Listening To: Continuing with my iTunes collection.  I'm up to the Ds now.

Book finished:  The Frog Prince; Paris in Love; A Great and Terrible Beauty; Murder on the Orient Express; Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

ReadingSomething Borrowed by Emily Giffin

MakingLists: Projects for the house.  The spice racks are up, but there's really nothing else on the walls.  And we need to finish putting away the all the knick knacks, books, etc. 

Around the house: Waiting for my desk to arrive to finish putting together the office.  Supposedly it will arrive Tuesday, but we'll see.

From the kitchen: Last Monday, I made a huge number of freezer meals to last us for the next month or so.  I spent all day created at least 12 main dish servings, 10 dessert servings, and a complete farmer's casserole.  We are set.  And it is looking good.  I've already eaten one serving of the salsa shredded beef over the course of two days.  Delicious!

On the Web: Blog surfing.  I had a backlog of blogs to check out that's been sitting in my notebook for at least a few months.  I finally started getting to them,

Crafting: Nothing until my desk arrives and is put together.  I did join a few crafting Meetup groups.  Looking forward to some new ideas and encouragement.

Watching: The theater is up and running, so we've been catching up on a ton of shows.  Psych, New Girl, 30 Rock, Community, How I Met Your Mother, Once Upon a Time, and Eureka.  I also started to finish Chuck (I'm in season 4 of 5).  I finished the Pierce Bronson James Bond movies so now we only have the two Craig ones.  And J started me on a fairly recent show Fairly Legal.  I love it!  We're almost to the end of season one which will catch me up with J.

Wondering: Why the DMV is like what i imagine Purgatory to be?  I had to go get my California driver's license. After waiting almost 30 minutes I finally got my question answered.  What documents do I need?  Only be told a birth certificate or passport.  Unfortunately I do not have a county approved bc, but a decorative one.  I had to call my mom, ask if she had it, wait, and finally my dad went to get a copy.  It should have been sent yesterday.  I should be able to get my license next week.  Yippy!  More purgatory fun!

From Nature: It's been a bit chilly (for here) in the 60s, but sunny every day.  Just gorgeous.

Shopping Scores: I found a crazy dragon skull box for the boys' room for only $8.  It is going to look so great in their room.  I also ended up buying Ticket to Ride after watching the TtR episode of TableTop with Wil Wheaton.  Check it out on Geek and Sundry on YouTube.com. And finally I got a bike. It's a beauty and will be great to cruise around the neighborhood.  Very excited to break it in this coming week.

Project: Getting ready for the boys.  Plane tickets have been bought.  I'm making a list of camps to sign up for.  I've looked into taking them to Great America; it's only 10 minutes away.  And planning out a few San Francisco/beach days.

Farmer's Market Finds: J joined me this weekend at the farmer's market and I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it. We picked up some lettuce, broccoli, sour baguette, white bread, duck sausage with figs (J's pick), fruit tart, and chocolate cake.  We ended up grabbing lunch while there. I had The Trinity (sausage, sauerkraut, onions, and mustard) and J had the Seoul Sausage (sausage, kimchi, and wasabi).  Yum yum!

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