Day 243

Blog readers, I have a confession to make. I did a bad, selfish thing today. I feel bad about it - but it is what it is. Are you ready to hear this? I failed to turn in a DVD back to the public library, which means it will be overdue. I did this on purpose. I know, I know - this is so terrible. Here's the whole story:

I checked out 2 DVDs a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to watch them yet. They were due today, so I had made myself a note to renew them this morning. When I went to renew them online, one of them couldn't be renewed because someone else had requested it. Problem was, I had left the DVDs at home, and I had to be at school until fairly late. So, I could either go home, pick up the DVD, drive back across town to the library, walk inside on a sore foot after a lot of other walking today, and drive back home (all while hungry), OR I could wait to take it back tomorrow when I have more time, pay the quarter (seriously, that's it?) fine, walk inside on a much-better-rested foot, and eat my humble pie. I chose pie. I do feel bad that whoever requested the DVD has to wait another day, but at the time, I thought it was (from a solely selfish perspective, of course) a good choice for me.

I should probably hang my shame curtains now. Bonus points if you get the reference.

Day 242

Today's culinary adventure: Blueberry smoothie. I had some frozen blueberries and some leftover milk that I wanted to use, so I found a recipe online for a blueberry smoothie. I didn't have vanilla yogurt, which was what the recipe called for, so I decided to substitute the Key Lime Pie yogurt. No big deal, right? Yeah, except that it was basically an epic fail. :) Apparently there's a reason lime was not the recommended yogurt flavor. I drank the smoothie, so as not to be wasteful, but quickly felt the need to rid my kitchen of the evidence:


In better food news, I cooked my hamburger for a shorter time tonight, and the result was hot, juicy, and quite tasty! Yay!

Day 241

I was a lean, mean, culinary machine today: A chicken casserole for lunch, and my first attempt at a hamburger on the good ole George Foreman grill for dinner. I overcooked the burger a bit, but it was still edible, so I ruled it a success. :)

Day 240

Since my foot / ankle have been hurting me for a few days now, I tried to do this as much as possible today:

Day 239

The Math Department had their annual "Welcome Back Party" this evening at OU's art museum. When I got my camera out to take pictures, my friend Rachel (remember her wedding earlier this summer?) said, "Take a picture of us; we're cute!" and grabbed her new husband Ty. As it turns out, she was right - aren't they cute?


After a false start, I managed to get a picture of most of the rest of Ty and Rachel's table. (I had to promise that the false start wouldn't appear on the blog - doesn't that whet your appetite for hilarious party photos?) Here's Candace, Lynn, and Daniel:


Then, I took pictures of my table. I forgot to warn some of them about the blog, so I'll just stick with this picture of Matt and Cherith. Matt was giving us his best excited face... yeah. :)

Day 238

If you look REEEEEEALLY closely, you can see the moon in this shot from my morning drive into school. (Sorry about the quality - I couldn't get to the real camera while at the stoplight, so I had to settle for the phone camera.)

Day 237

Sometime last week, Patrick got a new Mac at work. Once he got it to run Windows (and his Windows-based software) as well, I think his exact words were something like, "I think I've died and gone to heaven." In homage to NSSL, who funded the purchase, here is Patrick's new technology item proudly displaying the NSSL website: