i like this h.g. wells quote: moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

i like this quote from my dad: never trust anybody who reads the bible in public.

and then i like this hodge-podge quote from me: you can drag a dead and beaten gift-horse to water but you can't make it drink. because, you know, it's dead.

i'm starting slowly with this cooking thing. last night i bought pre-prepared stuffed salmon fillets and then threw them in the oven. boy, were they tasty. i heated them up just right, and i couldn't have been more proud of myself than if i had actually mixed the crab and shrimp and cheese stuffing all by myself. "this cooking thing is a snap," i said aloud to no one in particular as i carefully twisted the oven knob to 375 degrees. i did, however, sautee mushrooms all on my own. those were especially yummy as well. if only i had grown the mushrooms on my own. but, as we know, i'm a chef, not a gardener.

it doesn't take much to make me feel like i've accomplished something.

still no word from microsoft. every time i mention moving to somewhere else in this neighborhood once our lease expires in june, chris says, "hey, let's not get ahead of ourselves- we're moving to washington, remember?" i keep seeing signs that seattle is in our future. of course, that's because i've posted pictures of the space needle all up and down our hallway, over our bed, and in the shower. i had to laminate the ones that are in the shower. but now i'm getting off track.