Improvisation and Surprises

October 17, 2009 by Marlene.

I feel like I’ve been dead to the blog world for a while and Ashley’s the only one really posting. Sorry guys.
Life has been same ol same ol for the most part. The first round of midterms are over and I enjoyed a small break from the craziness of study, eat, work and sleep and not much else. Now the second round is approaching so the pattern of life is coming back but hopefully this time won’t be quite so stressful.
As I said in an earlier post(or meant to if I didn’t) the grounds crew for our complex pruned our sun blocking tree letting me have some sunlight for my plants. I still need to move them around to keep them in the sun but it’s much better than nothing. I know it’s WAY too early but I planted some seeds in my little seed starter. I have some flowers and cilantro growing. I spilled mustard seeds from our spice rack in the soil so those are about to take over the universe. Seriously. They sprouted like the next day and I can’t bring myself to kill them. Maybe they’ll be pretty. I’ve never seen a mustard plant before. Yesterday I thought that maybe I got a plant from the Little Shop of Horrors. In the morning there was nothing in that spot and after they sat in the warm sun all day that evening I had two leaves thick and sizeable ready to eat whatever came too close in proximity. I had NO idea what it was and it was cool but weird. I dug down a little this morning and found that it’s a resurrected squash seed….so I’m not entirely sure how I’ll keep that alive over the winter so we’ll see how that goes.

Last night we watched the movie Chocolat and of course we had to have some air popped popcorn. Usually I’ll make one bowl for me and fill our colander for him but that was getting annoying and since we don’t have any big bowls I decided to improvise. Stephen has an empty drawer in his nightstand so I washed it out and put the popcorn in there instead. It was perfect! It fit everything and was soo easy to mix because of all the extra space. We will still look for a big mixing bowl but it looks like this just might end up being our popcorn bowl. Oh and by the way, yes we did have chocolate afterwards. A must for that movie.
It was a really good movie. I originally saw it in DC with my family years and years ago and we lamented not having chocolate afterwards but it was still a really good movie. It’s a movie about a woman and her daughter opening a chocolate shop in a super religious french town just before lent. It has a nice message and I definitely recommend it.

That’s just about everything exciting on this side of the island for us. Until next time.

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