Today has been a plant heavy day. Before breakfast I transplanted some of my house plants that needed larger homes and gave my new calathea (that I got from the Botanic Gardens) a hand me down pot of its own. The calathea is doing quite well and is opening up its leaves to show off…
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2-8-20
Thursday, Elisabeth celebrated her birthday and so we ate dinner at Watercourse, a tasty vegan restaurant downtown. Brittany came with us per Elisabeth's request and the three of us laughed and enjoyed ourselves the entire evening. We ordered cheesecake for dessert and I surprised Elisabeth with candles and a match that I had brought so…
Cooking Class – Indian Food
Sidney and I went spent our Friday night at an Aurora rec center where we learned how to cook Indian food. I'm always on the lookout for new experiences so when Sidney said she was down for going to this with me, I signed us up. This three hour class was not what I expected.…
Aurora Huddlers
Yesterday, the girls and I attended a Women's March Huddlers meeting. For those that don't know, the Women's March movement is doing a "10 actions in 100 days" campaign and the second action was to attend a Huddle (a meeting). We had wanted to attend the first one, which was last month, but Elisabeth's back had…
Stress-free day and ramen
Today at work I attended a three hour stress management class. I practiced a few different relaxation/mindfulness exercises, learned a bit about why we have stress, and had someone listen to me while I talked about my childhood home. I really need to "meditate". I use quotation marks as the exercise I learned today was…
Brunch at The English Tea Cup
This morning I held a reddit brunch meetup at The English Tea Cup, a British restaurant and store. Although only Josh and Brittany (my two closest friends from reddit) showed up it was still a fun experience. I ordered the cucumber sandwich and potato leek soup. Both were pretty tasty, but especially the soup. We…
What a great Wednesday
The couch arrived today! Gene stayed home from work and took care of everything so when I came home the new couch welcomed me in. I was nervous at work, thinking that something would go wrong and the couch wouldn't work out, but when I walked in the door and saw it I liked it.…
