Abbie's Real Life Blog

I can’t believe I didn’t write again last week.  Sometimes I’m just so lazy…  but then again, last week felt pretty short.  But to stay on the politics thing for just a wee bit longer, I’m so very happy with President Obama (god, I love saying that) and the things he’s done in office so far.

And Sarah Palin all but announced her candidacy for 2012 today.  Whoopee!!  I am sorry that she doesn’t understand that it’s time for her to Go Away Now, but she clearly doesn’t.  So cover your heads- that loud noise you hear is the implosion of the Republican Party.  That’s called Reaping What You Sow, mothafuckas… put all your eggs in the Evangelical Christian basket, and you end up with a bunch of cracked-out chickens cawing about a Palin candidacy.  The rest of us will be over here, giggling into our tofu scramble.  Thank you.

Well, we got a little bit of snow here last night, but it wasn’t enough for me.  I’m starting to sense the end of winter coming.  Not soon, obviously, but it’s close enough that I am starting to fear a winter without a really good snowfall, and that is just not fair.  Spring always comes with flowers, summer always comes with 100 degree days with 95% humidity, fall always has some colorful leaves… and winter should, by right, be snowy.  I don’t mean icy, but I do want at least three or four good snowfalls of at least 5″ or 6″ each.  And somehow this winter has had three or four snowfalls of less than 1″ or so, plus whatever that ice storm was that we had in early December.  So I’m expecting more of this winter than I’m getting.

It has been nice and cold.  I’ll give it that.  We’ve had at least ten days  with highs less than twenty degrees, and I like that.  I like when it’s so cold that you don’t want to go out and do anything, and you feel the need to bundle up in your house.  I like it, I just do.

In other news, Tracy and I went up to Kansas City on Saturday to look at neighborhoods, which was interesting.  I feel like I’m pretty familiar with Kansas City, but I know I’m really not.  I mean, I’d never been through many of the neighborhoods that we drove through on Saturday.  I just don’t know that much about the Kansas parts of Kansas City.  So that was interesting.  We ate lunch at Eden Alley, a vegetarian restaurant in the basement of the Unity Temple on the Plaza, and it was fabulous.  Pretty expensive, but worth it as I am not that often in Kansas City when I could eat out at vegetarian restaurants… so I will try to make a habit of going there when I can.  I had a fake meatball grinder where the meatballs were made with spinach tofu, the cheese was cashew cream, and it was all on top of some kind of wonderful thickly-cut artisan bread with field greens… really amazing.  Tracy had a tofu & falafal meal, which she also loved, but I was really impressed with mine.  Later, we had dinner with my brother & sister-in-law at The Dish, which is a pretty great deep dish pizza place in Liberty, Missouri.  It will be nice to go into KC more often and see them and other family.

As far as actually finding Tracy a place to live, I felt that the trip was successful in that she now has a general idea of what these neighborhoods look like, but we didn’t actively look at any places.  She’s supposed to go back in early February with some friends, maybe see a place then, and start narrowing choices down by early March.  I think this is a good timeframe.