some discoveries

1. want to offer brownies to your roommates but insure a large portion for yourself? bake walnuts into half the batch. ("oh, you don't like walnuts??")
2. create a list of things that you would like to accomplish outdoors for spring. wait. wait. wait. continue waiting, and mother nature will do it for you. that pesky rusted metal shed you want to tear down? done, one windy-windy-windy day later.
3. i do not want to teach art (or anything else) to middle schoolers. ever. (formally). i never planned to teach this age group, but while i'm at it, i should add elementary and secondary ed.
4. when you saute onions and garlic, it smells good. when your roommate sautes onions and garlic it makes you want to open every window and door in the house, even if its freezing outside and there is a storm of sand blowing through your neighborhood. (not to mention kick him in the shin for creating such a horrible odor)

That's about all for updates. I'm slowly looking forward in thinking about summer jobs, and maybe fall for that matter. We're done in early June, and I have at least one lead for summer that involves travel, leading, biking, and getting paid. I'll have more details later and will definitely share once I have them.

Oh, and though we don't have snow and ice and all that freezing, it's still cold sometimes, and a 35 degree day does feel cold after a 65 degree day. (really cold)

And as many are, I'm impatiently awaiting spring. I started a few herbs inside and think about the garden that I will plant this spring, although this potential summer job will get in the way of tending to such a garden.
OH! I now have tomatoes growing too...a tomato I purchased in the produce department decided to sprout its seeds while they were still inside the tomato. I was weirded out and fascinated at the same time. I first researched what the heck was going on, then transplanted six tiny sprouts to one of the trays I already have seedlings in. We'll see what happens. I found a picture that looks like mine did, only my tomato was red.