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For the one or two people who were still bothering to check this blog, thanks for your dedication and I’m sorry I haven’t had anything new for you for a few months now. Summer’s kept me pretty busy with classes, work, and planning a move. I’ll try to be more diligent at posting stuff now, especially now that …

*drumroll please*

… I have a new theme! A big thank-you to my sweetie Walt, who took the time to create a beautiful design for this blog, after I lost my motivation to.

*big hugs for Walt — I love you honey!*

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Finals. They suck.

At least the semester’s almost over.

I would like to share with you all the prayer that is heard all around campus during finals week:

“The Student’s Prayer”

Now I lay me down to study
I pray the Lord I don’t go nutty
If I should fail to learn this junk
I pray the Lord I do not flunk
But if I do, don’t pity me at all
Just lay me down in the study hall
Tell my teachers I did my best
And pile my books upon my chest.
Now I lay me down to rest
I pray the Lord I pass my test
If I should die before I wake
Well, that’s one less test I’ll have to take!

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Check out our uber-geeky Easter egg creations:

It all started with Walter drawing a smiley face on an egg that had been dyed yellow. He then remarked that the eyes he drew sort of resembled those of one of the Mario characters, maybe Toad or somebody.

Of course, that was all it took for me to try to turn an egg into a Super Mario character.

I started with using a rubber band around the egg to mark the “dividing line” between red and white. Then I dripped candle wax on the shell to create the “spots” on the mushroom. The egg was then half-dunked in red dye until the desired color was obtained. Once dry, the wax was scraped off and the face was drawn on.

After doing three more eggs of various characters, we cheated a bit and “touched up” the white areas with Wite-Out before their photo session.

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I tweaked the style on here a little bit. It displays as a nice blue on my laptop monitor, but on Walt’s monitor, as well as the monitor here at work, it looks sort of… purple. And that just won’t do.

Back to the (digital) drawing board.

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Okay, so I never got around to updating after Valentine’s weekend… and I have some unexpected free time this morning, so I guess better late than never, right?

Going to update Updated! the Valentine’s post below with the cheesecake-brownie recipe (by popular request!)

And with Valentine’s chocolate and Valentine’s cheesecake-brownies comes… the post-Valentine’s diet. (Sigh.) I’ve been trying to track my daily calories using NutritionData.com’s free service, but remembering / finding time to do that proved to be even more challenging than remembering / finding time to update this blog. (And you can see how well that’s been going…)

In other news, the Hyv has added RSS feed reading to its list of features. I might have to see if Walt could adapt the code for this site… then I could more easily find articles of interest and link ‘em here. (Actually, there’s possibly already a WordPress plugin for such things. Time to go on the hunt!)

Spring break is next week (woohoo!)  Walter & I will be in North Carolina for a few days to attend my mom’s wedding.

I have quite a few new recipes that I’ve had some success with that I ought to post soon: biscuits… homemade salsa… pretty good vegetarian chili… barbecue sauce (ketchup + honey + spices)… oh, and a REALLY delicious Mushroom-Barley Soup last night!

I also have some photos that need uploading, but I’m at school and my camera is at home, so that will have to wait.

More details possibly to come as I think of them.

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