Very cute cake.

I am now done with grading for this semester. I got through grading the final this morning, and now there is no more grading. (My plan was to study in the afternoon, but taking a nap seemed like a better choice, so I did that. And I just realized that I had coffee in the morning, and still had a nap in the afternoon, so I must have been really exhausted.)

So, I'm about 6 hours behind schedule.

Crap. I'm sorry because that well and truly sucks. Short-cut ~ma?

And, cute girls holding cute cake.

Me = Duh. Totally this.

::drive-by::

If I get through the next couple of days, I want a monkey cake as a reward for surviving.

It looks like -- maybe -- my work overload will resolve itself by the end of May, and I'll be free to read all the messages here then instead of skip, skip, skipping through the thread.

::parks self in front of computer, and gets back to work::

Someone posted the recipe here a while back, and we couldn't resist.

(And we were right not to, because oh my god so good. Plus, monkey!)

there is half a dead thing in my yard. Not my cat's leftovers, because even if he could kill something,he would not recognize it as food.

ewwwwww.

there is half a dead thing in my yard. Not my cat's leftovers, because even if he could kill something,he would not recognize it as food.

Mebbe it's hate-mail from a critic of your directorial debut in "Jello Hot Tub".

Cute cake! I want one.

This rain must stop. Now, please. Other than the rain, I am having a perfect day. We went to see Thank You For Smoking and now Dave is cooking me dinner.

I just did something I haven't done since I was in fifth grade: seriously scalp a lawn. What with the grass in the front yard being darn near a foot tall and gone to seed, and Daniel having to work 9ish days in row, I figured I had better at least make a stab at mowing the lawn. I've never used an electric mower before, and wow, are they so much easier to start than a gas mower. I wish I could have figured out how to adjust the height sooner - that was a matter of being girly and not wanting to use brute force on levers and adjusty things. I mean, I know enough about mowing grass to know if it's been left for too long and the grass is tall, you adjust the mower so the blade is as high off the ground as possible, then run it over narrow rows so as not to clog it.

Oh well, at this point, I think the scalped look is better than the needing-machete-to-cross-the-jungle look that we had going.

Btdt, WS. Go you though for tackling the yard! I don't miss my old big yard AT ALL! The next time I have a big yard will be when I have the money to hire someone to take care of it.

I'm so very obviously not a gardener and I don't like yard work.

ION ~ must. pack.

Well, the sad thing is, I didn't get to finish, because it started raining. Electric mower? Rain? Two words: Nuh and Uh.