Another Fortnight:

This fortnight I:

-Made baked brie bites (thanks pinterest for the pinspiration!) and the Barefoot Contessa's creme brulee, though I substituted almond extract when I found I was out of vanilla, for my Breda's birthday. 

-Started my first batch of kefir with the kefir grain that a friend gifted me.

-Practiced yoga at home. outside.  in the yard.  in the sun.

-Ate lasagne and salad with strawberries for dessert.

-Saw Taj Mahal live in concert.

-Heard thunder.

-Watched a great local production of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" performed by the Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre

-Leaf out happened.

-Hail shower followed by sunlight.

-Told my mother I loved her.

-Told my sister, my husband, my friend, and my dad I loved them.

-Told my inlaws I loved them.

 ... this loving, its important stuff folks.

Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.

~ Hafiz~

This fortnight* I...

-  made a new friend.
- indulged my body in two days of some serious sleeping in. It was needed!
- discovered my cat can jump walls.
- finally, after months of meaning to, brought plants into my office at work.
- discussed plans of beehives, chicken coops, and CSA's.
- wrote two letters.
- watched a Korean soap opera, and had the 60 year old Korean lady who runs the noodle house spontaneoulsy translate it for me.
- read 5 romance novels.  Yes, I read romance novels and I'm proud of it!
- ate bread pudding muffins and jalepeno bacon corn muffins at romance novel book club (see above).
- decided that Korean soap operas and romance novels have much in common.
- ate Thai food with my sister.
- sang kirtan and attended a mantra workshop with Girish!
- ate swedish pancakes with lingonberry sauce.
- listened most days to Alaska News Nightly and National Native News on NPR.



- FINISHED MY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING APPLICATION!


(*A fortnight seems a more reasonable time frame for a regular round-up post than a week does.  Also its unusual - ALL bloggers do weekly things! lol.  But really, I just love the word fortnight.  It has such a sense of history behind it, and it will always sound so elegant to me.  I remember first encountering it in "Little Women" when Meg goes to visit Sally for a fortnight, when I was in 3rd grade and first read "Little Women."  It was a few years until I learned what it meant.  Until then it was this exotic phrase that was all about house parties and lamp lit evenings at the theatre in cloaks.  So elegant!)