As I continue my exploration of the land I am in, discoveries and conundrums abound...

Okay I really cant make anything I've done sound exciting enough to fit that beginning but it is a really beautiful day in New Brunswick, NJ. A crisp 39 degrees allows me to shed my bulky winter coat for my less appropriate thin pleather one, so I can feel chic as I pretend I am not cold, walking around the sunny streets. Today, I went to get coffee at the corner store and met a guy who was celebrating his 60th birthday! He said 6o is the new 50, and that when he was born it was 3 degrees out and a snowstorm.

In other news:

1. I have persisted in trying to take pictures of my dearest, blackest cat Olive. For the most part she looks like one of those dust sprites in Totoro (whoa, I guess I wasnt the first with this idea), a furry little ball with eyes, but what can I do? Her coat doesnt really reflect much light, so it disguises many of her features. Like the fact that she has a face. Or legs. One day I will get a really fancy digital SLR and devote it to trying to photograph her. In the mean time I have requested the assistance of a photographer friend to take a joke photoshoot of us as Madonna and Child. Hmmm. See above. I cant seem to master putting photos in the right place yet.

2. I cooked! Tom Yum soup! Even though barely anyone in the Hong Kong Supermarket could speak English or help me find the interesting ingredients (fish sauce? nam prig pow?), it came out tasting actually pretty good. Okay I really cant do this picture thing so all the pictures are in a stack at the top. In reverse order. This should be interesting. Its like a matching game! Match what I'm talking about to the picture at the top! Answers will be posted upside down in tiny script in my next post. Ha. Like I could ever figure out how to do that.

3. I had a dream. It was to make a layer cake, specifically a chocolate layer cake with gooseberry jam in between the layers and chocolate frosting. Coincidentally, Dr. Martin Luther King also had a dream. Well that's not the coincidence. The coincidence is that I actualized my dream on the day that we celebrate him and his! So I made my dream into a face cake of him. Rainbow sprinkles for hair and everything, it was symbolic. Cutting into his face to eat it though was not part of the symbolism. That is excluded.

4. Finally. Neverland does exist after all. I found the atlas in the library. They have just been spelling it with a D in the middle instead of a V! That's why we havent been able to find it!