Letterbox

Mr. P and I went on an adventure in our neighborhood by finding a letterbox. If you haven't heard of it before, it's kind of like a geocache, but instead of GPS coordinates, you figure out clues that tell you where to go. The "cache" is a handmade rubber stamp that you put in notebook. This one was found in a tree about a mile from my house.

couscous

This simple recipe was inspired by the meal that my good friend Erika M made this summer in Bremen.

Caramelize an onion by stirfrying it for several minutes. Make one box of couscous according to the instructions on the box. Heat up or steam a handful of fresh green beans. Stir everything together. Add some dried cranberries for sweetness, crushed almonds or peanuts for protein, roasted garlic for deliciousness, and a little black pepper. Serves about 2 people. Enjoy!

Christmas cards

I uploaded photos from my Nikon from the past couple of months, so here are a few happenings from weeks past.

I made my own Christmas cards this year! I love brown paper, so I let Trader Joe;s do most of the work for me. To make these simple cards, I cut out some of the text and holiday images from paper bags, and glued them on to white cardstock.

consistently inconsistent

My blog has turned into the journals I had when I was little: I would get so excited and write for pages, and then it would lay on the shelf for months at a time. There's no point in saying I'll try to update more often--it'll happen when it happens, and I just have to deal with that.

The most major development in my life since my last post is that I was laid off from the coffee shop, which freed up about 40 hours per week. My last day was February 12th, and my life has improved amazingly since then. I was simply not cut out for waking up every weekday morning at 4:30, dragging my butt to the T to get on the first train downtown, and smiling for the next eight hours. I would fall asleep between eight and nine pm most nights; I had absolutely no social life; I hardly ever got to hang out with Mr. P, and when I did I would complain about my annoying coworker (codename Dwight).

I'm not completely unemployed, which would probably make me just as crazy as being over-employed. In January I began teaching science at preschool and elementary schools who have after-school enrichment programs. I teach five classes, four days a week, at three schools in the suburbs of Boston. The kids are absolutely amazing, and I really hope that they learn at least a little each week that will come in handy sometime down the road.