2/8: receiving a gift
...for Valentine's Day from my mother. When we were growing up, each winter we'd put gumdrops, small marshmallows, and LifeSaver candies on the branches of a small, clear plastic tree (like this). In a burst of sweet nostalgia, my mother sent me and my siblings our own trees this year, along with a big bag of red cinnamon and white peppermint gumdrops with which to decorate it.
2/7: e-filing
...our federal taxes. We'd been submitting paper forms until this year, but now paper returns get process so much more slowly that we realized we should go electronic. Usually we do our taxes right before the due date; it's nice to have the federal ones at least done early.
2/6: calling
...today a "rest day." I had said to Chris that it was a "lazy day," but he said that "rest day" was more accurate. And it's less judgmental, too.
2/5: taking a trip
...into the Ozarks for a walk with Chris at Alum Cove.
The view from inside a cave on the trail:
We stopped at an overlook on the way back; smoke was in the air.
2/4: enthusing
...with a colleague about Christopher Myers' Wings. I was so excited that she's read it and likes it a lot!
2/3: readying
...valentines for tomorrow's mail. My card this year is a kind of paper sculpture, involving a good deal of complicated folding. It's been fun to notice how, through practice, my fingers have learned to do the folding efficiently and crisply.
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