A Week in the Life...

Today is Friday. I've been in PA for just five days now, and happily I have about two more weeks before having to go anywhere. But, the revisions to the manuscript are incredibly slow and frustrating, and I don't seem to have spss on my computer, so things are complicated. That's the problem with having two places to live; you just don't know what you might need when you leave one place to go to another, and when you need something that is at the other place, it's too difficult to get. Especially when it's a computer with spss. Not to complain, but you'd think the university would help out by providing the software necessary to doing the research that you need to do in order to do your job. But, I just needed to throw that in there.

Since coming home, I've worked a little on the manuscript, picked blueberries, made my blueberry jam, and gone to get some peaches for my peach jam. I found a little Amish stand not that far away, and they seem to have good peaches and a bunch of plum tomatoes, which I'll probably go back for sometime next week. I could probably be driving my parents absolutely bonkers, but for some reason, canning appeals to me this year, and I really would like to try some new things. I should be receiving a book today on canning, and if it doesn't have the recipes I need, I'll be ordering a new book.

Today, I have to do something with those peaches. There are a lot of them, so first, I think I need to go find some candied ginger to add to the jam. Then, cooking up peaches is what I'm going to be doing as the morning progresses.

Yesterday, I had dinner with four graduate school friends. Good company, good food, good wine. And, believe it or not, football. What is football doing on this early? It's insane.

I have to figure out what I want to do with the boys this weekend. I'm babysitting them for three days, and I am pretty sure we need something to do. I found a recipe for pb&j muffins that would be one thing we can do. But, that's not going to take that long, so I'm going to have to figure out some other things to do. If you have any ideas, let me know.