Where?

Ah, I am still here!  We have a closing date on our new home in Indiana, but no pack and load date. Still kinda in limbo {eye roll here}  Still, there's only a couple of weeks left in Galesburg and all of us are ready for the move. Dyno Dad has put about 10k miles on his truck since October, driving back and forth every every three days (three days on, three days off schedule).  Pretty stinky, that.

So it's finally the new year. I've been thinking about what I'd like to accomplish this next year.


*Do P90X again (dont' take off any time between starting a new 90 day routine, and don't skip YogaX)
* Dust off novel and submit to an agent
*Eat better-->more green smoothies and juices
*Buy Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 6&7 (Shut. Up. We're all allowed our guilty pleasures, no?)
*Get writing again
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That's all I have right now.

Pickled Ginger

Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad spent last weekend searching for houses, which is not as fun as one might imagine. It involved a lot of driving, from around Naperville to Indiana Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But--we had a pretty nice room at the Westin (yay for points!) and ate some real tasty food each night.

Friday night we ate at Holy Mackerel!, the seafood side to the famous restaraunt Harry Caray, which we didn't try. Harry Caray was the voice of the Chicago Cubs for many years, which I didn't know. I don't really pay attention to sports.

Then Saturday, after a much more productive day (we found a house we like) we travelled back to Chi and ate at Ra, a sushi bar. I'd never had sushi before, but was willing to try it. It was delicious! We had both raw and cooked sushi, and I have to say that the pickled ginger was out of sight!  My fave was the spicy tempura shrimp. The yellowfin tuna and salmon was also good (raw), but i didn't really care for the California roll. I'm not a big fan of Nori.

So all in all it was an enjoyable weekend. The kids had fun with Grandma and Grandpa trick or treating and making cookies and generally having a great time.

I have four pint jars of pickled ginger sitting on my counter. Now all I need is some sushi....