Here’s some things on my mind today:
1) Now that we have approximately 87,000 (give or take a few) mini-pumpkins and gourds left over from the wedding…what do we do with them all!? I can’t trash them, and while I think a few would look nice decorating the house, I don’t think we need a pumpkin patch in our dining room.
2) Also wondering what to plant in our flower beds. We need something inexpensive, easy to maintain, will stay alive year-round, and decently pretty. Don’t know if we should bother planting now since it’s already mid-autumn and gets into the low 30s at night, or if we should wait until the spring. Having a house will do strange things to you. I have never in my whole life cared about flowers or gardens or planting or landscaping. That was an old boring person hobby. It’s not so much that I like doing it, but more that we want to keep our place looking spiffy, so it needs to get done.
3) Croissants are delicious. I’d also love another bubble tea and green tea cupcake from a place I checked out this week closer to downtown Cincy. If you’ve never had bubble tea it’s flavored tea with these plum-colored, gooey & chewy, edible tapioca beads at the bottom that you suck up through the straw. I know this description probably sounds extremely alarming and slightly off-putting, but it’s really yummy. And the moist green tea cupcake with rich, flavorful, velvety cream cheese frosting? To. Die. For. Ted also mentioned that Chicago Gyro near campus has a fabulous gyro. I’m drooling already.
4) I want an herb garden in the kitchen so I can grow cilantro, basil, parsley and mint. Mmmm. I adore the way lemon grass smells, but I’m not exactly sure if it is useful in cooking or not. Anyone know? Ikea has these great wall-mount rails we are going to pick up with hooks to hang stuff on. Well, they also have these awesome little pots that can hang from said hooks. I’m thinking they might be perfect for a mini herb garden.
5) How soon can we start planning our honeymoon? We don’t know next years vacation schedule or work schedules yet, so I don’t know how soon we can start planning. For what we want to do, airline tickets, accommodations, and excursions really need to be purchased well in advance.
I love traveling. I love tropical places, great architecture, snowy places, and gloomy rainy places – I love it all. So I don’t necessarily care where we go. My list of places to visit is huge. Among the top contenders are Italy, Russia, Poland, Egypt, Greece, Iceland (again), and about 27 other fabulous locations. I’ve been lucky enough to go to China, Japan, Iceland, Germany, France, England (2x), Switzerland, Hungary, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada, and a fair share of states in the U.S. Ted has done some traveling as well. But we did some brief discussions early on in our wedding planning and our top choices at the time were Alaska and Iceland/Finland/Norway/Sweden. We’d probably go in the winter so we can do the blue lagoon, see the aurora borealis, check out the ice hotel, go husky racing, glacier climbing, snow shoeing and all that adventurous stuff in addition to sight seeing in the towns and loading up on fantastic foods. I think for all we would want to do, including travel time, we’d need two weeks (still working on that unlimited bank account too). I think we’ll make it happen somehow ;-)
