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Mom enclosed her front porch with sliding glass doors last year. It’s gone through a couple furniture set-ups, but I think this year is a pretty nice layout for the family. I’m sure this picture is a grainy mess, but the cameraphone can only do so much. I’m tempted to break out my real camera… which reminds me: when i pack later, my camera needs to be accessable on the plane. It was way too tightly packed away on the trip out and there were some decent sights out the window on the way out here.
my favorite little chicagoland diner… close to one of the schools I work at. haven’t been there much this season. they have free wi-fi now!
I developed a taste (read: addiction) for apple soda way back in 1995, on a school foreign language club trip to Mexico. At all the cool little restaurants we ate at, we would ask what kinds of soda they had and apple was always on the list among the cokes and sprites and roor beers. Prior to that, I’d only had some sparkling apple stuff at holiday parties and such. I had a bit of a hard time finding it back on the east coast. the Jones green apple variety was way too sweet. The Izze apple was closer, but a little too much like juice. I was hoping to find some online a couple years ago, since coca-cola bottled an apple fanta… and my search didn’t turn up any american products, but I did find Sidral Mundet. Now, I tend to have a supply of Manzanita Sol in the house all the time. It’s a little sweeter than the authentic stuff, but it’s yummy, and probably closest to what I got in restaurants in Mexico. And it’s at a lot of grocery stores and gas stations. Yay!
tied down with care. makes me miss my jeep(s), though I don’t think I ever actually used them to pick up a christmas tree. we also got free cups a hot cider and a free apple cider donut. yum.
in case it’s not apparent, that’s a big round bail of hay dressed as a turkey. we bought a christmas tree… pretty different from when I lived with my parents and we’d run out and get one as close to the day as possible, and then leave it up until St Patrick’s day. It’s also a far cry from my hand-me-down “lottery tree” that served as the whole of the holiday decorations in Woonsocket. It may have come out this early on one or two years, but taking it out of the closet was a lot less effort.
Except for administering the post program surveys and evaluations… and entering all that data in the computers … Adventure Ed. is done for the season. I’m uploading the last of the pictures, now. I’ll probably have to put together a CD of them all organized into folders again for the kids, my coworker Antoinette or both. I should probably do that this weekend, so I can give CDs to the facilitators and teachers this week… just in case eMailing the students doesn’t go as planned.
Got a big dinner in the works for tomorrow… helped prepare some desserts for baking this afternoon/morning. I always feel really full after the Adventure Ed. overnights, so the idea of a big meal isn’t all that appealing right now, but I’m sure I’ll be hungry by tomorrow. A couple years ago, I went a little moblog crazy on Thanksgiving. Life was pretty different back then. I won’t deny that it’s fun for me to go back and read old posts. Especially the ones where I’m not doing as well as I am now. I was whiny and depressed a lot, probably terribly uninteresting reading for all of you… but fun for me, ’cause things are so much better now. Don’t get me wrong, I still feel ridiculously tired and on the verge of non-functioning after work some days, but now it seems like it’s a justified exhaustion instead of just not being able to focus or just having a broken head.
I’m the picture of health, eh? Found another big honkin’ Arby’s sign. did i mention that there’s a flickr group dedicated to these signs? for reference (and so I don’t forget), this one is at 5656 la grange rd, la grange, il (according to the GPS).
the Y i work for on the weekends is selling trees for the holidays. Apparently, they’ll be up there on top of the stack, chucking trees to each other. If i get a chance, I’ll try to snap a pic of that
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