The Seversons

With things getting a little less busy for a while, I content myself with very simple things.

Veggie sandwiches for lunch.  I’m on a rampage to get us eating healthier, especially with more veggies.  So last week I started trading my turkey sandwich for a veggie one.  And they are so divinely good.  Plus the extra time I need to slice cucumber and tomato just builds up the anticipation of how incredible it will taste. (For the record, my veggie sandwiches are pretty much just cucumber, tomato, sprouts, lettuce and muenster on really good bread.  Any suggestions for additional ingredients are welcome.)

My plastic basin.  This is probably the stupidest thing in the world, but I am in love with my plastic basin.  Last week I spent a few hours washing unmentionables and my cashmere sweater in it.  (Not all at the same time.)  I will use it today to clean my crystal vase now that the flowers I was keeping in it have died.  And I’ll probably use it again shortly thereafter to soak a pan that needs scouring.  Our sink doesn’t have a stopper and it’s easier to use the basin anyway. Don’t ask me why I love it so much.  I just do.

Enjoying the time before Eric goes off to his clinical rotations.  Also enjoying the fact that I will still be ahead in the doctorate count for another 18 months or so.  This must be enjoyed, since it’s unlikely I’ll get two more just to win that contest.  (Why did I marry someone who’s working on two doctorates?  It kills all my bragging rights.)

Realizing that I have finally become de-winterized.  In college I was excited to move away from Utah’s cold winters.  Then I stayed in Utah for three more years for law school.  I got excited again, but then my first year out my work sent me to spend January and February in Saint Louis.  It was freezing.  But I will soon be starting my 4th (!!) winter in Atlanta.  Last week was lovely and hot but this week we suddenly dropped about 15-20 degrees.  It’s 60 degrees when I go outside and I need a jacket.  Back when I was a tough winter girl, this was the kind of thing I’d laugh about.  But I have fully adjusted and I’m okay with that.  It’s still beautiful here.  And who knows where we’ll be a few years from now.  (With my luck, Alaska.)

Blog-stalking.  How did we ever survive without the internet?  Without it it would be impossible for me to have spent a while last night finding the blogs of a bunch of girls from my college dorm.  It used to be that you’d meet people and then move on and just not see them again.  Now anyone is findable.  This is particularly useful when you move around a lot, like me.  I am STILL making friends on facebook that I haven’t seen in ages and it never ceases to amaze me.  (78 friends and counting.  It’s not very high comparatively speaking, but I think it’s impressive.)  I also still enjoy seeing whether or not someone is fat now and what names they gave their kids.  It also makes me curious about who blog-stalks me.  I am quite the lurker myself so I’m not pointing fingers, but I do wonder who’s in the woodwork.  (Especially since I have on occasion sought out the blogs of my ex’s just to see if I’m cuter than their wives.  That sound you just heard is all my lurking ex’s telling their wives to set their blog to private.)

Being so so so happy that the election is over in two weeks.  Even though I will have about three more hours in the day since I won’t be constantly reading election news.

Continuing to hope that plane fares to Mexico go down.  (Please, please!)  Also hoping the dress I just ordered to wear to the wedding in Mexico fits.  (Please, please!)