Kara & Michael’s Blog

I saw a counselor once who bemoaned the state of education and psychological health because it encouraged people to attach their egos to the things they undertook. She was just beginning piano lessons and she offered me this example.
If her teacher was concerned about her hurt feelings, they might tell her she did well on [...]

I was reading an online chat yesterday, and someone said they wanted to lose a not-insignificant amount of weight and that they worked out half an hour for three days every week.
Well, plenty of people told him/her they needed to up the time and frequency of work-outs but no one told him/her how to do [...]

About a month after Michael and I got married, I told him I wanted to buy a cat as a wedding present for him. We went to the pound intending to get a full-grown cat but after bureaucracy bit us in the bum, we came home with a kitten.
We named her Inari. She is one [...]

You know how so many people love to wax poetic about how amazing the human body is? These people have never had to have a boil lanced.
But let’s start at the beginning of yuck. Cysts tend to run in my family. No big deal. Most cysts are harmless and don’t really hurt. But let’s say, [...]

Corn, 6 ears
Leek, one
Garlic, one bulb
Zucchini, two
Hungarian banana peppers, two
Green bell pepper, one
Peaches, four
Basil, one bag
Spring Mix, one bag
New Red Potatoes, one bag
Cucumber, one
Green beans, one bag
Wax beans, one bag

I think that’s everything. Now we have to get off our lazy bums and cook this week.

I’ve lost count of weeks, so I apologize. I haven’t really updated lately for a few reasons:

I’ve only just come off my plateau from last month. I’ve lost a few pounds the past couple of days.
Michael has had asthma problems related to dairy consumption and was working on a vegan meal-replacement muffin with a [...]

For all my discussions about politics and weight and everything else, I don’t often talk about my depression. Which is a shame because I do spend a lot of time considering my mental health and the nature of happiness in general. I just tend to do it privately because I am sorting most of these [...]

I’ve been bad lately about updating this blog about our CSA and this week, Michael and I were away on vacation. For pictures of the sights we seen and a few pictures of Michael (since I am the appointed photographer, there are never any pictures of me) on our gallery.
In the meantime, we came home [...]

Inari often does very irritating things because she is smart. Do not ask me how she does some of the things that she does because I do not know. But yesterday evening I came home and she had managed to get a Tupperware container of shortbread cookies open and pull out ONE cookie, only one, [...]

Last night, after an evening meeting and super-late bus for Michael and a load of errands for me, we decided to deviate from our scheduled meals and eat out at a  local chain restaurant. We were seated next to a mother, father and their two children (a daughter of about 6-8 years, a son of [...]