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I can’t believe it took me so long to think of this. Portioning out the pints.

Portioning ice cream from a pint has always stuck me as being a pain.  Because the pint is not a cylinder with straight sides, it’s hard to estimate when where just one quarter of the ice cream is.  And now, New Seasons has a special birthday ice cream with Ruby Jewel Salted Carmel, chocolate cake and fudge on top.  How to get it out without disturbing the layers?

Ah-hah!  I realized I could just cut the whole thing into quarters, slicing neatly through the cardboard edges of the pint.

Here you can see the layers.  I pulled one off for myself and wrapped the rest in a bag and stored it in the freezer.

Postcard from Minnesota

This is from Sara, who obtained this postcard through a stationary subscription she received as a present.  I was intrigued by the idea of a stationary subscription, so I looked into it myself.  And may I say that in the video I watched, one of the women had a very interesting hair style.  And now I’ve just run deep into a rabbit hole because apparently there is more than one company that has stationary subscriptions.  If someone wants to spend an overly large amount of money on a gift subscription for me, I liked Nicely Noted the best.

Today’s funny comics. Subtitle. Two ways I appreciate the boyfriend.

Thank goodness I took the band Journey’s adage to heart and learned eventually that “lovin’ a music man ain’t always what it’s supposed to be.”  If I hadn’t left drummers behind, not only would I be marking time through endless drum solos, but also I wouldn’t have met Matt.

I grew up in a family that watched spectator sports.  Baseball and football mostly, but also college basketball.  So I am quite familiar with this interview.  And thank goodness the boyfriend has absolutely no interest in spectator sports so I don’t have to listen to this interview any longer.

Three sentence movie reviews: Treme Season 2

Season two is all about moving on.  Sure, a hurricane (and some other factors) completely destroyed your city and sure you are fighting your way back, and for sure there will be a lot of day-to-day grind because that’s how great tragedy is: exhausting.  At least there are moments of laughter and always, always, always, the music is there.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home

Poster from: amazon.com

More happenings at the Kenton Max stop

This motel, which is no longer a motel, but some sort of way station for adults with small children, is getting a paint job.  But why must they paint all in brown, which not only is a bad color for grey-skied Portland, but just reminds me of my K-12 institutions color choices of: horrible brown, horrible green, horrible cream.

However, the sun is making very nice shadows of the cow silhouettes at the Kenton Max stop.  There are cow silhouettes at this Max stop because once upon a time, the cows use to come off of the train from Eastern Oregon, and march their way to the slaughterhouse where the Expo Center now is. 

“If that ball goes up there, you aren’t getting it back until the janitor can get on the roof”

I can just hear the recess monitor now.  The funny part about this is that I took the picture standing on the staircase that heads down to the playground.  But the balls on the roof are so tantalizing, just at my eye level.

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They were kind of asking for it with that title. And, thinking back to the standard overstatement of the delightful hotel owner in the first movie, it would have been been in keeping to call it the Even Better Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Hee.  That’s all I have to say.  Hee.