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May 01, 2007

you can really taste the angels

so there was this whole thing where for the last couple of weeks, i though i was going to sell my house so i could buy a bigger house with a garage. and then after meeting with a realtor and understanding the realities of the timing, what i need to do to make the house ready for sale, etc, i decided against it. also, having someone sit there for three hours and exclaim about how fucking charming my house is, i realized that, you know, it is pretty charming and maybe i want to stay here a little while longer. and i'm not finished with the house. there's more here for me to do.

so there was that.

and then last weekend moses started peeing about three times as much as usual. bloodwork came back yesterday and he has diabetes. fortunately i take care of a diabetic cat quite frequently so giving insulin injections is no big deal and i understand the reality of it, or at least i think i do.

so there's that.

j and the puppy came this weekend and stayed extra long. sunday evening rolled around and we'd spent the day going to lowes (always a major outing when j is around, it's his favorite store) and then doing handyperson things around the house. we installed GFI outlets in the kitchen (and i was introduced to the J Method of Dealing With Old Wiring ™), and he installed new lighting fixtures in a closet and on the side stoop. which sounds like about fifteen minutes worth of work but was more like two hours because it's an old house and for the GFI's he was teaching me some stuff.

so anyway, after all of that it was an hour before he was supposed to leave, and we hadn't walked the puppy or had dinner, and i said, you should just stay.

so he did. i think this was our first four-day weekend, and it was really nice.

for dessert we had fresh strawberries, angel food cake and cool whip. i hadn't had angel food cake in years. there's a unique taste that it has that i can't identify, so i just said, "you can really taste the angels". it makes me want to make one from scratch (this one was store-bought) so I can find out what that taste is.

right now i'm waiting for a foundation guy and then a painter to come give me estimates and whatnot. moses and i got up early today so we could go to the vet and start the insulin. he's sleeping it off on the ottoman and i'm dying for some coffee.

Posted by lisa at May 01, 2007 09:45 AM

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Classic angel food cake only has but a few ingredients: egg whites, sugar, flour, vanilla, salt, cream of tartar (which is to stabilize the egg whites and really doesn't have much of a flavor)

Posted by: swedish chef on May 2, 2007 01:26 PM

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