Friday Five

After finishing up that custom notebook, I had a few relaxing (& rainy) days. Now this weekend, Pat & I are off to Cleveland with a friend. We're going to see a concert & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Should be fun!

I went back through some old blog posts (editing tags - you can see that there are a lot less now in the sidebar cloud) & saw that my first few Friday Fives were short & sweet. Somehow, I got a lot wordier. So I'm going to try to be a bit more concise while I tell you what I was up to this week (though this intro doesn't make that goal seem very attainable):

1. I made a delicious cheesecake - recipe will post on Sunday.
2. I also made a few of my all-time favourite meals: ratatouille & risotto. No pictures of the risotto - I was too eager to dig in.
3. I cleaned up the apartment - big time. I did 6 loads of laundry on Wednesday, dusted (I hate dusting so it was pretty bad) & put a bunch of stuff I was tired of looking at into a box for storage. As part of this cleaning up / organizing initiative, we bought a small filing cabinet at Wal-Mart last night.
4. I got a fat sample yesterday. I also had to toss a co-culture plate because it looked contaminated (but in a really odd way...).
5. I listed some fun tags: