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Monthly Archives: April 2007

lovely weekend

Friday James and I headed out to Langley to spend the weekend at his dad’s. His cousin (who lives with his dad) is graduating from university, and a bunch of the cousins were over. They’re all pretty cool, we had a good time hanging out. Saturday, James’ old roomie’s wedding. The ceremony itself was nice, [...]

fixie's fixed

Last Friday I finally got Laura (my fixie) back on the road. I’ve ridden it to work every day since then, plus went on a nice ride with the ladies on Friday, attended (but didn’t participate in) a trackstand competetition on Saturday (I did learn to trackstand though!), and had a tough (for me) ride [...]

james a bum?

James was at the office super late last night, since they have a ton of work to do, and they were in the zone and didn’t want to interrupt it. I know sometimes a couple of the guys have just slept in the office. So this morning: [10:06] James: hellooooo [10:06] Elaine: hi! [10:06] Elaine: [...]

some kickass dump soup

I made the awesomest dinner tonight! The idea tonight was to use up some kale I had in the fridge that was starting to get a bit wilty. Kale is the most nutrient-dense food on the face of the earth btw. I remembered a recipe I read on a blog that had kale in some [...]

spring!

Had a lovely weekend. Spent a bunch of time Saturday and Sunday (and last weekend as well actually) at the bike shop building wheels and looking for a new fork. Yesterday I also went to a clothing swap – got rid of some stuff that I never wear and doesn’t fit me, and found a [...]

disappointment

I made this tonight and it was alright… which is, in this case, a bad thing: a) it took me a few hours to make; and b) it makes a LOT. The biggest pot I own is full of it. I worked my ass off to make several gallons of soup that’s…. just okay. I [...]