Most have seen too many winters...or too few

Memories I don't want to forget:

After I had tried to push my chair in after class, and grunted when it didn't work (this was a week ago):
"What's wrong, Anna? Are you frustrated? Tired? Upset?"
"All of the above." (It had been a rough week.)
"Awe...I'm sorry."
Thank you, Austin, for being a good friend.

While sitting at Claire's dining room table this morning:
"Anna, do you want some slippers or socks?"
"No thank you, I'm good."
"Oh, that's right. You're a Mid-western girl. Sometimes I forget."
Thank you, Claire's mom. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but it made me smile and realize that I am a Mid-western girl. And if that means that I'm tougher because I go bare foot, awesome. But really, it's just because I get too hot if I wear socks.

I navigated Omaha for the first time today. (It wasn't Omaha proper.) And I did it without a GPS unit because it wouldn't load the map for me. For the record, I made it to my destination going strictly from memory of what Claire's mom told me, which I hadn't really been paying attention to because I was counting on the GPS unit. And I didn't get even a little lost. Woah.

"I don't really like broccoli."
Neither do I, Claire's dad, but I ate all of mine... and I feel accomplished. And you know? It wasn't half bad.

"I thought, I could dress up for Anna."
Thanks Sara, you're so sweet, and so cute. I wish I could say that I dressed up for you and our Borders Coffee date... but I just didn't have any dry jeans, hence the skirt.

Great cream cheese frosting recipe:
1 stick of butter
1 package of cream cheese
3.75 cups of powdered sugar, sifted.
So......good. So, simple.

Watching the Lord of the Rings with Steph during the Super Bowl.... it's lovely.


"Now something is about to happen that has not happened for an age." [Treebeard, movie]