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Valentines dinner

We’re doing Valentines tomorrow, so I have some more time to prepare things. So far the plan is:

For dinner, fresh mozzarella stuffed chicken thighs breaded with cornbread mix and parmesan, and veggie penne with pasta sauce. And for dessert, strawberry cake with meyer lemon buttercream frosting and a limoncello gin cocktail

Depending if I have time, I might make bread….? I can’t tell you yet what I made him because spoilers, but I’ve been working on his valentines gift for a very long time now, almost a year, so I’m super excited for this whole thing

Story time!

So today I’m biking to go so Valentine’s day prep stuff; I’m still on campus, I make a turn around a fountain without incident and continue into the flat sidewalk where my bike tire catches on /something/ and it skids sideways.
My purse goes flying out of the basket, /I/ go flying forward off the bike- my aikido training kicks in, I land on my shoulder in a forward roll, and I do a barrel roll unharmed across the grass.

Mind you, all of this in front of a crowd because people are between classes. I dust myself off, gather my shit, get back on, and bike away as if nothing had happened

So I’m down to one california school, but I’m doing my damnedest to stay in the bay area for the summer. Or at least Norcal, if I don’t get into a school- one of my professors says he knows a guy with a residency up in norcal that he’d be willing to put in a good word for me about….I mean, that’d be a totally cool adventure to go on, but I just sort of pray that I won’t need to