New House!

Find some pictures of our new place on flickr!

Plus, Olive is old enough to start eating vegetables! She loves carrots and especially loves the tops. She's so fluffy and cute and we love her soooo much! She's even pooping and peeing where I want her to. Perfect! Now, if only I could get her to like being touched....

What's New, Bunny Rabbit?

Things have been a little crazy around the J and L house lately. My semester is winding down which means that all the stuff I've been avoiding for the past couple of months has to be done NOW or PRETTY DAMN SOON.

Some other news in brief:

• I've been seeing a chiropractor for lower back pain and it's really been helping! I've never seen a chiropractor before now but I'm totally over physical therapy so chiropractics seemed like the next thing to try. Unfortunately, our insurance doesn't cover some treatments that will help my spine over the long-term. We'll have to see how we figure that out.
• J and I have a trip planned to visit Rachel and Eric in Philadelphia in the time between my spring semester and my summer session. I'm afraid that trip may have to be postponed (postponed, NOT cancelled) because J and I will (hopefully) be moving to a nice, quiet house during the week that both Rach and I are free. The reasons for the move are too numerous to name. Well, I'll use one name: Rose, the awful, screaming, horrible, bully bitch who lives upstairs with her idiot kids and her surprisingly nice and reasonable boyfriend. I can't stand her and I won't spend a second more than absolutely necessary listening to her bellowing at her moron offspring. She is awful and I hate her. More to come on the topic of a move soon. Maybe I can tell you about it when you're helping me move some boxes? Heh heh.....
• Olive is getting big-ish! She is so cute and we love her even if she only kind of tolerates us. Unfortunately, I won't be able to post all the pictures we take of her, but you can periodically check her flickr set. The video of her trying to stand and eat bits of the house plant is pretty damn funny. You can easily find the link in the sidebar under the "This is What I Like" heading (right side of the blog). Here is Olive lounging against the Guitar Hero guitar behind the tv (her favorite spot).

Poor Olive got a real scare the other day when Jesse brought out the big vacuum. The sight of that giant monster scared little bunbun so thoroughly, that she immediately jumped on top of her house and stayed there for a few minutes! Poor, traumatized Olive.

Fall 2010

• Legal History of Sex in the US
• Social Justice
• Community Leadership and Development
• Holistic Health Practice

I should be able to graduate after the Spring 2011 semester.

Re: Check This Out!

Sorry the video is SNR. I can't get it to do what I want it to do.

Check This Out!

Ever since Tovah encouraged me to try to make rejuvelac during my spring break, I've been doing some research about sprouting. Now that I've finished my first batch of rejuvelac, I want to continue sprouting. I came across this neat video via the SproutPeople. I might try sprouting and growing some wheatgrass for little Olive!

Overheard in the J and L House: A Bunny Edition

Lisa to Jesse: Is this movie too scary for the bunny?

Lisa to Jesse: Olive had better not have any fun while we're gone!

Olive Parsley

Meet Olive Parsley, the only bunnis I know who shares a phobia (and perhaps an entire personality) with her momma.

Today, we pimped her cage. Well, J pimped. Olive and I bonded.

She is fast!

Neat! I can get my orchard grass from outside the cage!

Only slightly larger than a Peep.

They Said Someday You'll Find All Who Love Are Blind

They said someday you'll find

All who love are blind

Oh, when your heart's on fire

You must realize

Smoke gets in your eyes

-The Platters

For my birthday, my parents generously gifted me the entire series of Homicide: Life on the Street. It was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I remember watching it for the first time when my parents and probably sibs were out of the house. I wasn't too old, twelve maybe. The whole house was dark except for the television set. I loved the premise: the procedural stories of homicide detectives in Baltimore; I remember feeling I was doing something illicit by watching such a violent and mature show without my parents knowing. As it happened, I'd bumped into a marathon of episodes, so by the time my fam returned, I was hooked.

I've always had a thing for true crime and true crime-type entertainment and Homicide only deepened the interest. Soon, I was insisting on watching it in its weekly time slot. Often my dad joined me and tried to make it through the whole episode without dozing off (not because the show was a snooze). The show eventually dropped from the major networks and I didn't have access to it on cable.

So, to receive the entire season was a terrific gift! Initially, I wanted J to watch with me, to watch at least two entire seasons and give it a good shot (crime drama isn't his thing at all). I wanted to share the show that I loved so much with him; and, I'll admit, he didn't hate it. The problem was that I couldn't wait that long! Jesse'd be willing to watch one, maybe two episodes a week along with whatever we had on the docket for a particular week, and that is just not good enough for me. Needless to say, I've continued on without him. And, of course, I love it. I remember a lot of it and that's just fine. I'm really, really enjoying it.

But I've noticed something about this series, which started in 1993. It's not something you see today and it's something I've noticed in the series Mad Men that J and I have recently started watching via Netflix. Mad Men is set in the 1960's.

Do you know what was common in television then and is pretty taboo these days? SMOKING! Everyone smoked in teevee shows in 1993; everyone smoked everywhere in the 1960's (right?). Thanks to Reality Check, among others, we're totally unaccustomed to seeing smoking on screen these days.

I'm certainly not complaining; but it is certainly something I noticed!

Spring Break and What's Next

I'm on spring break this week; it's important that I'm occupied and at least semi-productive so I don't feel like I've wasted the week. Today is only Tuesday, and already I have been so busy!

Monday, I went to the outdoor store for a new compost pail and a rake. I drilled ventilation holes and transferred the compost from the full pail to the empty so I can use the soil at the bottom in the garden. I wasn't sure how it'd look, how composted it'd be; but I was pleasantly surprised! It looks like dirt!

I had to add the "compost only" label because the old neighbors used the pail to get rid of broken glass, so that was awesome.

Today, I got a baby dwarf Lionhead bunny! S/he is really cute and has been practicing her sprints tonight. I'll definitely have more pictures (and a name?) soon.

Tomorrow, I'm spending the day with my friend Amanda and we're going to drink booze with lunch and get massages. It should be pretty amazing. Thursday, I have to do some homeworks and then J and I will spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday together! I'm pretty sure there's a bike ride in our future.

My seedlings have really taken off and I am also making rejuvelac from sprouted spring wheatberries this week. Thanks for the idea, Tovah! All good fermented things come from Tovah.

Regarding this semester, it has been really hard. So much more difficult than I thought it'd be. It's also been kinda lonely, complicated and confusing. My life is so different now than just a couple of months ago! I'm glad I'm done with my mid-terms and I'm really glad I'll only have a month left when I get back.

I have struggled with one class in particular, Intro to Human Development. The class is all theories and nuance and stages and if you don't get all the little details, you're sunk. I bombed three quizzes and kept going to the professor over and over again. But I busted my ass preparing for the midterm and I was able to get a 74. It's not awesome, but it's better than a 50 and I think it'll give me a boost of confidence to get me through the end.

I still have a ton of work to do, but in a month; it'll all be over.

After that?

We visit Rachel and her husband Eric in Philadelphia for a few days, hopefully have dinner with Megs Sherry and her parents and relax a little before my Summer term begins.

Stay tuned for: meet my friend Amanda, a visit with Tovah, a wedding in Michigan and a few days with J's fam, and news of the fall semester!

Eco-nundrum

The organic peppers (our preference) are imported from Israel. The pesticide pepps originated in Mexico. Is it better to buy organic with a much larger carbon footprint or consume the pepps that are "closer" to home?

I bought the organic. What do you think?

Birthday Party Leeway

I'm trying to be a good wifey and give my sweet husby lots of leeway to fuss just as he did for me a couple of weeks ago for my birthday party. I did try the following, though:

Lisa to Jesse: It's okay if you want to be a little less snappy with me.

It seemed to work! He laughed at my nice presentation of a perfectly reasonable request and we kept plugging along with our preparation.

We should have a nice day and a nice celebration.

No Matter How Much Time I Spend with My Husby

It never seems to be enough.

Summer 2010

Here's what I'll be doing between May 25th and June 25th.

• Social Science Research Methods
• Psychology of Women's Bodies

So if I stop answering emails or phone calls during that time, you'll know why. I'm gonna be pretty, pretty, pret-ty busy.

Overheard in the J and L House

Lisa to Jesse: I feel nervous.

Jesse: What are you nervous about?

Lisa: Everything.

Why I love My Husby

Reason# 73

When were sitting across from each other eating lunch, Jesse wiped a little snotty-ness from my nose. He could have said, "Oh, you have a little...." or "Hey, grossy, you've got snot all over." No. He just took care of it. So sweet.

Reason #410

He is doing a superb job helping me with my massive stress and anxiety over school. School is way, way, way harder than I anticipated and it is taking a toll on me and Jess is caught in the aftershock. He is being supportive and loving and encouraging. Way to go, Jesse!

p.s. even when he's doing a little micromanaging (which makes me resistant), I know he's micromanaging with love.

Reason #130

I was interested in some candy recently and we had none. So part of my birthday present was permission to have a "very tiny candy shopping spree." It was the cutest.

Just a Little Reminder

via Natalie Dee

Go To Sleep, Little Baby

I wake up tired and spend all day hoping for a nap. Then I get into bed at bedtime and I can't sleep.

I Had a Birthday Party

And it was excellent!

Overheard in the Produce Department

scene: Wegmans produce department. Lisa bumps into a funeral director colleague (Steve).

Steve to Lisa: Hey! Are you ready to get back into the business?

Lisa, with no hesitation: pssht. NO!

So, is that my answer? Am I done with funeral directing? I've been trying to answer this question since April 2008 (before, even). J thinks I'm stuck in the past, that I shouldn't sacrifice my future to live in the past. He's right, right? Why can't I let it go?

MJ Sings to Me from Beyond the Grave

via Rachel@Canada