ramblings and preponderances...

"The leech has two daughters (Jenni and Rhonda), 'Give!' Give!' they cry. (Proverbs 30:15 - one of my favorites) I deeply regret my lack of communication lately, but even now, I don't have much to say. So I'll post a couple pictures that aren't that great, but the best I can do right now. Last week was crazy busy but good to see family. This week I'm hoping to work 4 10 hour days so I can take Friday off and then have 4 days off due to next Monday being a holiday. The thought of 4 days off makes me just about cry with joy. A friend and I are trying to think of a fun place to go. We're at a pretty central location here so we've thought of St. Louis, Mackinaw Island, somewhere else in Michigan, then I started thinking Toronto... who knows. : ) Oh, here's a funny story for you. I wasn't amused at all but hopefully you can get a kick out of it. Tonight I was doing some baking for the first time in what seems like years. Anyway, I have to do something with my ever rotting bananas (I can never eat them fast enough, and it's not like I buy that many). Anyway, I digress. So I made some dirty dishes and the dishwasher was full so logic would dictate that I should empty it. So I began emptying it, but kept thinking that a lot of the dishes didn't seem to get very clean. If they were really bad, I'd leave them in, but most of them I just put away, rather puzzled. I had nearly the whole thing unloaded when I looked at the silverware and realized with sickening clarity that there is no way these dishes have been washed at all! The silverware was quite disgustingly dirty. So now what I'm I supposed to do? I have dirty dishes nicely put away in every cupboard in the kitchen! And since I enjoy making extra work for myself... well, I left some of them and gathered up some of the nastier ones and reloaded the dirty dishes back in the dishwasher and decided to run it right away. So that's my Amelia Bedelia story of the day. As a side note, for the 2 or so of you who care, my mom used to make this killer banana cake with carmel icing. Few things in life I have found that could be considered "too sweet" for my tastes, but this comes pretty close. Anyway, I tried to recreate it tonight and didn't do too bad, if I do say so myself, but I have this one gripe about American powdered sugar - it always tastes weird! Sometimes it's much worse than others, but anything I buy around here just has an odd taste. I guess I shouldn't blame all of America - maybe it's an Indiana thing. Anyway here's some pictures.