Stepping Out of the Boat

Never in my life did I think I would have a great time on a date that involved going to a new grocery store and looking at all the food. On Friday night, we had the greatest date doing just that. We walked a little over a mile south to a grocery store we've never been to before. We strolled up and down the isles drooling over all the food they had from home. Most of it was so expensive that we would never dream of buying it, but we did splurge on dill pickle relish and a few other things.

On the second floor of the building with the grocery store was a high end home furnishings place. We walked through the whole store, once again drooling over the beautiful and clean things we don't have here. It's amazing what a little comfort can do. On the walk home, we stopped and bought some sunflowers. They're lovely. In fact, they're so lovely that they helped me get through a stack of the worst literary analysis papers I've ever read this afternoon. I just kept looking at the sunflowers and they filled me with the happiness I needed to finish grading my formidable stack of papers.

Last night (Saturday), we went to a new restaurant called La Lasagne - it's Italian, needless to say. We went with Rebecca and left the gimps at home. Sonya goes back to school on Tuesday this week, and she will be teaching all her classes in the library because she can't make it up three flights of stairs. That also means that no one can use the library for three weeks.

We're counting down until our spring break, which is the first week of April - Pico Duarte, here we come!