What a wonderful weekend

it has been. On Friday I led a field trip by myself and planted kale with the high schoolers. Great fun. Then I got all inspired about gardening and came home and transplanted some broccoli and rosemary. Hopefully we will get this house that we're applying to today and then I will be able to really garden outdoors. The weather is great.

Then we took a nap and then made some sushi with Jeannette and then went to arts walk where OH MY GOODNESS, we met Nikki McClure. Benji and I both cried a little when we met her because we were so starstruck. We told her she was our favorite artist and she said she recognized me from around town. There were also the cutest littlest babies there.

And we saw the luminary procession which was very nice and saw some more art and hung out by the water. And went home.

Then yesterday was real procession. We went to Asia's house beforehand for an easter egg hunt and got to play on her swing set and in her beautiful yard. We saw a seal and a crane in the water when we walked downtown. Olympia has been being very sweet lately. I'm really liking it. Lovely town. I really could not stand shoes so I was walking around barefoot downtown and it was funny because it was like I was just another one of those barefoot hippies. I was also wearing my tree dress and got tons of compliments on it which was weird because it was like what, you can see me?

After procession we had our seder which went super great, I think everyone had a fantastic time at it. Yes for traditions.

Being springtime

Springtime and our search for a house continues.

I had to get rid of the lesbian wedding shoes because they were crashing my computer for some reason. Oh well.

I had a very Olympia day yesterday. We went to the farmer's market and waited an hour for Jeannette to show up and ran into some people we knew because that is how it goes around here. This small town is getting very, very small. I can't believe I will be here another year (or two?) collecting even more people to bump into. Well, I suppose a lot will graduate. But some will not.

There were lots of babies at the farmer's market but not too many vegetables. We found a protest against tax breaks and unfair budget and spent a few minutes protesting and then wandered off in search of a flea market but found a green building expo instead. We got our wristbands and toured the waste treatment plant building, which was a beautiful building with lots of great recycled flooring and counters. I'd toured the actual sewage processing part Freshman year before the new fancy green building was built so I knew what was up behind the scenes. I got some really great refrigerator magnets from it so now I can write fridge poetry about waste management. Who knew it could be so fun!

At one point Jeannette and Benji were looking at an office with some nice recycled countertop in it and Benji said, "I want to live in this room. I want to do art on this table" but Jeannette thought he said "I want to do Anna on this table." LOL

Then we went to the co-op and ran into some more people and got some carob covered almonds and came home and made dinner and drank wine and Bailey and Michelle and Jesse and Jeannette were all there and there was delicious food.

Procession of the Species is coming up this weekend along with Arts Walk. Great things. I want to wear my tree dress all weekend long.

I think spring is here.

When did April happen

Things are going very nicely. They really have been doing that all year. It has been a very nice year. I am so excited that I get to stay here for the summer. I bet summertime will be super great.

Today has been a bad day for things going sour. My homemade nut milk went sour and my coconut milk went sour. Maybe it is just a bad day for alternative milks.

I really like eating the creamy part of coconut milk by itself. So good.

I am disappointed about the nut milk. I had just made such a large batch and it is incredibly stupid of me to let it sour.

I have finally perfected the making of miso soup. I am having it for breakfast right now. The other part of my breakfast was one banana, almond milk, coconut milk, water, and cocoa powder blended up in my blender. Kind of a smoothie, but also kind of not. This miso soup is perfection.

I've been doing so much cooking this year. Having my own kitchen is the best. I really really really like cooking. Jesse got us a slow cooker [EDITED FOR ACCURACY BENJI BOUGHT HALF OF IT BENJI BOUGHT HALF LET'S NOT FORGET IT] and I've been trying to figure out how it works. We made a chili in it but we had to fix it on the stove after. I don't think soups in the slow cooker is right for my style since I don't use a recipe and have to make adjustments accordingly as I go. Right now I'm making some beans in it. We'll see how that goes. I've gotten into buying dried beans and soaking them myself. It's cheap and it's kind of fun and it reduces waste (when I buy the beans from the co-op in my re-used co-op plastic bags, which is my easy take on this whole reuse a bag deal, which I really don't do as often as I should. Why can't I get it together to use reusable bags? I don't know.) and supposedly it's better for you, though I think you're supposed to soak them with some acid for that to work and I haven't been doing that.

La la la la cooking.

I made some cookies for class and there are some left over and it is a problem because now they are in my house and they are sugar cookies with chocolate frosting and I can't stop myself from eating them because they are in my house.

At least they don't contain dairy.

I love butter butter butter butter butter. Technically Earth Balance. I love it. I eat it plain sometimes. That can't be okay.

Spooky is being extra cute right now. She is a little bread on the windowsill looking out the window.

Last week the public schools were on spring break so I didn't have my internship or my hours in the elementary school but now spring break is over so this week and all the weeks after will be busy.

We all had a lot of fun going out on the town for Jesse's birthday. I sang a karaoke duet with Burnett. We sang Mama Mia. It was great. And Benji likes dancing at Jake's as much as I do, which is good news for everyone.

I can't go anywhere anymore without running into somebody I know. It's getting a little ridiculous.