Aww, it's windy and blustery here and I am tired and periody and the women's group from my old church in Kansas just sent us a teeny care package with cookies, pumpkin seeds, a pumpkin candle, a mug, and an iTunes card. Now I feel all warm.

I did a bunch of the things! Burrito for lunch, picked up prescription at CVS (hooray, my prescriptions are all transferred there from Walgreens), went to the farm where we: got produce, got a chicken, donated $20 for food boxes for the local folks in need, and played with all the awesome dogs there for an adoption event!!!! Man, they were such great dogs. Heartbreaking though- one of the dogs (whitefonted to avoid senseless acts of human stupidity/cruelty) was given to the shelter by a vet who had received him because the owners wanted to put him down for no reason whatsoever, just because they didn't want him anymore. Hooray for awesome vet, though!

Um, also: dropped of drycleaning, voted, bought a new cat water fountain, beat the rug outside, and put all the cardboard boxes in the house into the recycling.

Gonna chill for a bit and then go to massage and Sears. Tom has promised to clean ALL THE FLOORS while I am gone.

got a chicken

I read this several times before I realized you probably didn't get a live chicken.

DID YOU???

HA, you know, I thought I ought to edit for clarity. And then I didn't do it. No, not a live chicken. But a delicious farm chicken! Our meat splurge of the week.

(We are planning to subsist on a diet low in $$$ and high in a thin gruel in order to pay off our credit cards.)

(We are planning to subsist on a diet low in $$$ and high in a thin gruel in order to pay off our credit cards.)

Beans and rice and rice and beans, like Dave Ramsey says. I need to do my menu planning for the week.

I think being so busy this week at work kept some of the sadness about StW at bay, but it's swung back in full force this weekend. I'm sad and I'm angry, and I know it's not logical but that's how I feel. So I'm watching Justified and lusting after Raylan in my heart. Mmm, Raylan.

Beans and rice and rice and beans, like Dave Ramsey says.

Yep. Got some black beans soaking for dinner tonight. Had some chaurice in the freezer, gonna cook it all up with onion, pepper, garlic, and beet greens.

Ooh, I should freeze my andouille so I have it for my next red bean batch.

Pix, yikes! I hope it's nothing serious.

Yes, much much much ~ma for Pix!

Pix, tons of it's nothing~ma headed your way.

I cleaned all the things today, and TCG made a yummy pilaf with quinoa and pomegranate seeds to go with the leftover curry while I had a nice, hot shower.

Nothing~ma, Pix!

I just skyped with amyth and Calli and everyone. I'm a little homesicker than I realized.