No More Camera

Well, as I mentioned before, Valentine's weekend was Jumper boy's birthday. I had a camera. I took a picture of him holding is dessert with a candle for all to see. That picture is on my camera. The camera is MIA. I'm very sad. I wanted to take a picture of the crazy ice outside my house. No can do. I thought I had left it at his house last weekend. I did not. I know I had put it in my bag. But somewhere between the bag and coming into my apartment, the camera is gone. How sad is that!!!??? You all know I am a picture fiend! The jumper boy and I want a nice new SLR digital camera, so we've started a savings fund for that, but it's only got $50 in it right now and the camera is closer to $800 at Costco. I'll say though, it is nice having a small little camera when you want to go out with friends and it fits in your purse. And I love my little camera. It's a Panasonic TZ4 with a Leica 28mm wide angle lens with 10x optical zoom. This lens is the same one that the multi-million dollar microscope that I use at school has. That's one of the reason's why I chose this camera over others. It's big for a "small" digital camera, but the quality is unbelievable and it fits in my purse, so it doesn't bother me! So sad it's gone!

Anyways, if you see it anywhere, let me know!

A Birthday Weekend

Jumper boy's birthday is on Valentine's Day. Yippee. Which of course means that I get presents on his birthday :) I like that deal! In all fairness, I did petition to him that I felt like we should do V-day the day before so that on his birthday we could just do a birthday celebration and not worry about doilies and chocolate. Although I may SAY that I want to ignore V-day completely and ONLY celebrate his birthday, let's be honest, I'd have been a little sad if he didn't do ANYTHING for me all nice-and-sweet. But we did a little V-day gift exchange the night before... I got him a much-needed gym bag (not because I'm forcing him to hit the gym, but because he didn't have one). I also put little goodies in it with cute little notes that said things like "nothing says 'love' like 'fix that smell' (because i put the note on little things you put in your shoes to keep them from smelling up the place).


He gave me an ever-so-sweet-because-we-both-wanted-it-Cuisinart-Food Processor. :) I do love it... it chopped a whole onion in seconds. It shredded a block of cheese in an instant. It whipped up potatoes so fast they turned starchy! Really, the thing is brilliant. What got him into trouble was when he foolishly said, "nothing says 'love' like 'cook me some birthday dinner'. Ya... well... whatcha gonna do. He was kidding.

Now, for HIS birthday, we hung out, we went to a movie that was PACKED!!, it got out late and we started cooking dinner late. The grocery store didn't have my ingredients, Then they didn't have the meat... boo. It sorta all fell apart. Good news is, the next day, I cooked the meat I planned and the day after that, I cooked the soup. It all turned out, just not when I wanted it to. But we had a great weekend...

Re-Finishing the Table

When I moved into my new little studio apartment, I desperately needed a table. John & Marianne, who so often take care of me out of the goodness of their hearts, took me down to the unfinished furniture store in Westborough and I picked out a table and chairs so that I would have a place to eat and cook. Well, to prevent them from getting damaged, Dave and I finished the set January 16-19... they look great! We did two coats of stain and about 4 coats polyurethane on the table top and four on the chairs. Here's the pics: