Whoops, sorry, didn’t mean to abandon the blog for nearly a whole month. I’m still around. What I’ve been doing:
- Enjoying spring. The redbuds are almost entirely gone and the cherry blossoms are definitely gone, but the dogwoods and azaleas are all out now, so I need to take some more pictures for you. Oh, and the wisteria this year! It’s bordering on the ridiculous.
- Reading. (Of course.) The one thing I have been updating regularly on the blog is my reading list. Compared to last year, my reading volume in January was particularly pathetic, so I’ve got to keep going if I’m going to beat 100 books in 2009.
- Entertaining. My bestest college roommate, Ann, accompanied by Abbey (one of Ann’s flatmates during her semester in London) and Abbey’s adorable daughter, came to visit for a long weekend. We had a lot of fun discovering the wonder that is climbing stairs over and over, and finding out how amazingly communicative one can be with a vocabulary of just “hi” and “uh-oh.”
- Stitching temari. I’ve been on kind of a temari roll lately, and in the past month and a bit, I’ve done 7.5 new ones. Pictures to come.
- Karate. My women’s-only class students all passed their belt test at the end of last month, so now I’m starting on teaching them new stuff for the next test. (It’s amazing how fast time goes when you only have class once a week.) I’m also going to my own classes, and now Mark has started taking the new jiu jitsu class on Fridays, during which time I lift weights (a hateful activity that is unfortunately good for me.) Fortunately, the jiu jitsu class is fun to watch, so I may say more about that later.
So, internet, what have you been up to?
