It’s day two without coffee, so far so good. I’ve had two cups of green tea.
This morning we drove over to the hospital. Three vials of blood were taken from my arm to be tested for hormones and crap like that. I’m not too worried, but they might as well do it. And it was the most painless blood draw ever. I literally felt nothing. That nurse was a real pro.
After that we went to Bloodbath & Beyond because last night as I shivered on the couch I realized that we don’t really own any proper blankets. We just have sheets and a duvet for the bed and a tiny, thin “throw” on the back of the sofa. So, using my handy 20% off mailer, I got me one of these. Soon we will be snuggling on the couch watching season 3 of “Arrested Development” with audio commentary.
I also bought a book of Anton Chekov stories, as I was advised to do by my pal Marly, who has been helping me tremendously with my book. Tonight I am going to re-read the story she wrote again and hopefully tomorrow I can give her some worthwhile feedback.
So after shopping, we saw Little Miss Sunshine. It was great. I liked how they made the little six-year-old pageant contestants look like a disturbing cross between a whore and a doll. Which is pretty much how they look in those freakshows anyway.
Little miss sunshine really IS great. i’m a big fan.
somehow i never got tired of watching them pushstart the van.
david!
sounds like a nice weekend. im about to take a nap then my parents will visit. after that…LAKE COUNTY FAIR. wooo boy.
i want to see little miss sunshine but ill have to wait to rent it.
oh! ill be in town next weekend. maybe we can say hi somewhere? i think ill be staying in union square
Let’s definitely meet up. I plan to go downtown next weekend to pick up my coat, yay!
We seem to be doing nothing this weekend, but I am getting a lot of writing done. The sun is not coming out here.
since we are moving soon, i’m waiting until we move to do anything more related to my non-pregnant-ness since it would be pointless to go any further with a doctor i’ll never see again. i hope everything is okay with you!
Hey I have a weird Alaska question for you: I am guessing that there isn’t much good fresh produce up there, or am I wrong? And were you able to find any good fresh fruit in the spring? If so, what kinds, and was it very expensive?
The only time of the year to really get fresh produce is late summer due to the lack of a spring growing season. I mean, we had snow as late as June 1st which just seems crazy to me. Honestly my eating habits here have been terrible due to produce being bad and expensive. If you buy a head of lettuce, you better use it within a day or two or it’ll start getting red around the edges. I buy organic sugar snap peas for my salads and even they go bad quickly. Our problem is that most of our food comes from the lower 48 and gets shipped up and then for us here in Fairbanks, it gets off the boat in Anchorage and is either flown, trucked, or sent up by rail which takes too long to actually get fresh food. This is another reason I’m excited to get back to the midwest.
For example, I went to the farmers market once this year (inconvenient times prevented me from making it more often) and it was early in the season so all they had were some baked goods (icky!) and handmade crafts…hardly my idea of a farmers market coming from Iowa with sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc.
Wow, long answer! Hope I didn’t ramble too much 🙂
No, that was just he info I was looking for! Thanks. Did you find that you would just eat a lot of frozen vegetables instead? Did you get any hardier fruits like apples or oranges? I can’t imagine things like berries or peaches would really make it up there in the spring.
Oh and if you know anything about plants, flowers, etc around there that would be good info too. I know there are many interesting wild flowers that grow there, but I wasn’t sure when they bloom. Also I know that there are things like organic community gardens, but that they don’t really grow much edible produce, at least most of the year.
And lastly, I wondered about the kinds of hosueplants you keep. Let me know if that is a retarded question. I am guessing that in the winter during limited daylight they don’t do very well?
I’m pretty much the opposite of a green thumb. Plants die in my presence. We have three (a big palm tree thingy) and two others (sooo bad with plants that i don’t even know what they are!) but we put plant lights in a couple of lamps and used those hoping to keep them alive in the winter and they have all lived throughout the winter so that’s good at least! I guess I’ll try to find someone to give them to though because I doubt they will make it in a trailer going through Canada where it will be very cold.
As far as fruit goes, I haven’t bought much of it either. It’s seriously sad how poor our diet really is here because the apples tend to be bruised or kind of soft which is so yucky. I like a really crisp apple as well as crisp pears and all I can find is overripe ick. Blueberries are a really big deal in early fall (last couple of weeks actually) because in certain places you can really get a good batch of those and freeze them throughout the rest of the year for use later. Something the bears love to eat to get ready for hibernation I guess. We do use a lot of canned fruits, frozen fruit, and frozen veggies but if I know I’ll have salad for lunch I’ll buy some stuff to use right away.
I don’t know a lot about the wildflowers other than forget-me-nots are the state flower and are everywhere starting in late May I think. There is also a lot of fireweed due to all the wild fires that happen here throughout each summer so they grow really well in those areas and in all the ditches.
I know a few people who had plots at the community garden but I’m not sure what they produced out of that other than a lot of flowers.
I wish I had more info to give you!