http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:56:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today was my first day back to school. The alarm was mis-set and I woke up with 10 minutes to get out the door.  It was kinda like all those bad dreams I've been having about being unprepared for school, but, you know, real.  Things weren't all that bad though.  ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=56 Yesterday Ryan and I went out to Stoney Creek, a small community on the shore where you can drink a cup of coffee on a deck overlooking the sound, then walk next door to check out what's new at the antique store, then walk back into the woods to a ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=55 Ryan spotted a very large moth above our kitchen cabinets just now.  So he put our cat up there and in less than 10 seconds the cat caught the moth, jumped down, and ate it. Wow. http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=53 Fall in New England is beautiful.  The leaves change in the Midwest, too, but the colors out her are unbelievable, like something you'd see in a Tim Burton movie.   The oranges and reds remind me of spring time in Arizona when the wild poppies come out. I've been itching to get ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=52 Heehee.  I just successfully tricked our cat into drinking mint flavored Maalox by mixing it with tuna juice.  Next we'll try chicken broth... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=51 These were the very sarcastic words of the technician who instructed us on our cat's home care regimen.  We have to shoot 1ml of the bubble gum medicine down his throat twice a day, which he is pretty much done with after just two doses.  The bubble gum medicine, for ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=50 In the past several days our cat Nick has been described as handsome, great, adorable, 'quite the guy', to name just a few of the praises lavished on him by the staff at the New Haven Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine. Turns out old blue eyes is quite the charmer and ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=49 My husband and a classmate of his are in the living room preparing for a class presentation they will give tomorrow on Charles Taylor's book, A Secular Age. Sarah just classified Ryan's part of the discussion as the "So What, Chuck?" segment, in which after she recaps what the book ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=48 Pictures of the honeymoon! Check them.* *Alternative forms include: check this, please; check it; please be sure to check that; that one...please be sure to check it. A phrase commonly used by our Turkish tour guide. http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=47 As my mom has pointed out, I've been sleeping on this blog for long enough. A quick update is in order... I have officially moved to Connecticut!  We're still settling in a bit, but have done the majority of our unpacking, etc.  Once things are cleaned up a bit I'll post ... http://mia.fioritto.us/weblog/?p=46