miscellanous mall pictures

Spilling out of that one like the Pillsbury doughboy. I would have considered a larger size.

I liked this one. It was sorta short, though.

ROCK SUGAR for tea:

The Prince

From the mall yesterday; set the book down like this at Barnes n' Noble, recreated the pose later. 

Only two pages in, and was already underlining. This one will be useful, I can tell. There are books we get from BnN now and then that are just a bit stilted in their reading, like that Freud Dream Interpretation book of Kelly's, or that Plato book from her philosophy club.

I've wanted to read The Prince ever since The First Muslim kept mentioning Machiavelli in reference to Muhammad's rise to power, from religious leader and arbitrator in Medina to a political force.

(In fact, I was making my way to the religion section yesterday, because it's just a fantastic little corner - surrounded by history and feminism and political books - and was stopped by the philosophy section a shelf over. I skimmed for Hobbes before coming across The Prince! There were three copies, so I ruled out the more expensive hardcover, and then just picked the red one because the other had an indeterminate price; also, I liked the simplicity of this cover.)

New teas!

Watson: Irish breakfast, cinnamon, earl grey green.
Mrs. Hudson: almond, black assam.

It only took 48 hours for the teas to arrive! I ordered them after school to just get them in the mail as soon as possible, and wow that was quick.

After a nap I tried Hudders in a thermos. After drinking for a while, I will say that it's good, but not amazing. It tastes like a half-hearted Aziraphale, since that had almond as well, but also gingerbread.

Just drinking Watson now, and it as perfect as I remember. 

This was the worst picture I took but I'm laughing so hard

Anyway here is what I am drinking:

[The tea's really the same as the last few days I just keep putting it in different mugs and such)

Pictures from yesterday! I just put 'em all up because

Chili for supper! I figured we were just gonna sit at the table to eat, but then the others wanted to watch Tangled, since Grandma had never seen it.

The green mug was originally for myself, but after sitting down Kelly teased me once again how there was a lack of tea made for her. This isn't the first time she's asked, so I just huffed, handed the mug over to her, and made myself the same kind of tea (tropical hibiscus).

Amusement transpired as Kelly's blanket matched the mug, so I got my own bed sheets to match my mug.

[Don't tell Heidi we watched Sherlock without her but it's ok since we're going to rewatch the episode tonight and I mean come on there were so many detials and one-liners we missed anyway, and it's a detetive show so of course we're gonna watch it more than once]

This last one's my "done" face because I had to pause the show while the Moma took a picture.