FINISHED

I did it, I'm finished, no more Ikea furniture. I really like putting together Ikea furniture, and they were very nice and paid me well, but it was alot--eleven and a half hours to be exact.
My cat kept tripping me when I went home, her way of saying, "I haven't seen you, I will force myself upon you, you will not ignore my presence." She's kind of bossy, but that seems to be typical of cats. My computer is going to die so I shall post now.

The Blister

There it is, my little Ikea furniture blister. And I'm getting another one on the heel of my hand because I can't press on anything with my palm--I didn't get a close up of that, one was enough to whine about. I can now add queen bed, 1 dresser, and nightstand to the finished column, leaving only 3 items to do tomorrow. The blister isn't that bad really, but it does hurt, and I had a tetanus shot today, so my other arm hurts, lets be honest I'm tired and out of shape and two days with large pieces of furniture have taken their toll. My students are right, 29 is old.

Ikea take 2

In a completely separate experience from my "assdembled" one on Sunday, I spent most of yesterday assembling Ikea furniture--not for me. So far 3 drawer double wide file, desk with extension, small rolling file with 4 drawers, and rolling chair DONE. IN PROGRESS-queen bed and small nightstand. TO DO STILL 2 dressers, tall bookcase, couch, chaise.
If you are lucky I might take pictures of the blister on my hand.

Ikea

I went to Ikea last night and found a stool for my classroom. I like sitting on tall stools while I teach--that way I can see everyone. So this stool was in the "as-is" section of Ikea-one of my favorite places in Ikea. A close look at the label revealed a small misprint--

One more thing

The previous post was inspired by Confessions of a Pioneer Woman and The Pioneer Woman Cooks . Her blog is a billion times better than mine, I read it every day. You should too--I would recommend going their right now. Unless you are very squeamish, then you might want to avoid the selection on pregnancy testing the cattle. But the cooking site is safe, and delcious. And feel free to drool over her amazing photographs-not just the pictures of food.

Failed peach picking

Today my friend Kathryn and I decided to go peach picking. We arrived at Linvilla orchards with high hopes, but the peaches aren't ripe yet. We both agreed we prefer our peaches to be so ripe and juicy you have to use them within hours of arriving home, and if the peach cobbler still has distinctive peach pieces in it after cooking they weren't ripe enough. These peaches did not meet those requirements. So we picked raspberries instead. They more than made up for the peach failing. They are amazingly melt in your mouth juicy and sweet. We also got some corn, squash, zucchini and blueberries. Now bellies are full and mouths are happy. Here are the fruits of our labors (yes we know, that is a pun, it's been said already tonight, now you can groan too.)
Cobbler anyone?

mmmmmmm


Zucchini Boats

Back from the beach

This is going to be my first attempt at a post with pictures. I just got back from the beach. I had some kind of miserable cold sinus thing but still managed to get a little tan and a bit blonder. (I love it when the sun bleaches out my hair) There was a weird occurence at the beach--we had kind of an inland lagoon created on the beach.
The view is from the balcony of the condo (the Hirshes are amazing and let us stay there for the week)

The water was up to your knees as you walked across it.

I tried to take a walk along the water's edge, that would be the ocean's edge, not the edge of this special lake--the waves knocked me around and I wasn't even up to my knees.

(These pictures were all taken after the tide had been going OUT for several hours.)

digital camera

I got a digital camera, decided 2007 was as good a time as any to join the information age. I'm hoping it will inspire me to write on here more--actually it will allow me to write less but post more. Anyway, you are probably asking yourself, "where are these amazing pictures?" Ummm, first, they aren't that amazing, second, I've had a knock down drag out fight with my computer all day. I have seriously accomplished nothing else but fixing computer problems all day. My butt hurts from sitting so long. (and I'm so tired I feel like I could start crying for no reason. and I hate crying and this feeling, and I just teared up at a line on a late night CSI rerun-yikes) so why am I writing this instead of sleeping, good question. I have cleared my bed of all the junk that accumulated there (like large beautiful framed paintings from my grandmother--the computer screen would only work at one point if the laptop was connected to my projector, so I've been working in larger than life size on my bedroom wall) I have fed the cat who threw up twice today and was therefore banned from food until her stomach settled, I'm in my pajamas, I should go to sleep-- But the fans are perfectly positioned for sitting in my chair, it's blue and curved, it makes me happy, the sale at IKEA the day I bought it also made me happy. Ikea in general makes me happy. nice happy thoughts before bed. My summer is more than half over--wait, that's not a happy thought. That reminds me of the large list of items still to be done before school begins. Ok, enough blabbering on, off to reposition fans and go to bed.