bringing the sexy back

it's been a good, lazy day. actually, it wasn't that lazy. i started off with an hour and a half of yoga, which was nice. made me miss the days when i did yoga 3x a week. i plan on taking it up again that regularly as soon as the shoulder's better. (i have an MRI this coming week, so we'll see how that goes.) there were a few lazy hours spent laying around the apartment after lunch, listening to This American Life... spent the rest of the afternoon & evening at the garden cleaning the place up until i was chased out by a thunderstorm.

it was a gorgeous day - blue sky, fluffy white clouds. there was a crazy thunderstorm sans rain early on. the wind picked up, storm clouds blew in along w/ a lot of thunder. it came & went pretty quickly. tore out the cucumber & pumpkin vines. the cukes were dead & the pumpkins were looking bad & taking over. now my trellis is bare... is there a plant that vines in the fall? the few ripe-ish tomatoes i had were rotten... i think that particular plant is diseased cuz the tomatoes are also a bit deformed.

i amassed a tremendous compost pile with what i tore out & some bags of weeds from the old lady who "takes care of" our front yard. i chatted with her for a bit this afternoon - she's kinda cute. never gave her a second thought before because she never acknowledges my presence. she works real hard on our front yard but it doesn't look so hot. she said she really enjoys it & that's probably all that matters.

made some refrigerator pickles the other day & they turned out alright. a tad too vinegary but otherwise, not too bad. i was able to use some fresh dill seed from my garden too! (yes, i'm a nerd. i was totally excited when i checked out my dill clippings & saw seeds.)

had a pretty good week at work. think i mentioned this before, but i completed recruiting & we got grant funding. i was acknowledged for doing a great job w/ recruitment and for writing a good grant - it's being used for a case study on national service by a large corporation... hm... and yet, i can't tell if my supervisor thinks i'm doing a good job (in general) or just being an idiot. it's probably a mix. one of these days soon i'll have my review/evaluation & i'll have a better idea. i know it seems silly but he's so hard to read. seriously.

me & the d-bone got new contact lenses & we can see outtuvem! feeling younger already... :)