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Recent happenings
2021-Oct-25, Monday 08:58
It's definitely harder to find time to write when there's a baby in the house! 
I'm sitting in the sun nook right now, working, but it's more of a rain nook. Summer held on a long time in Chicago--even as recently as a week ago the temperatures were above 20°C--but there's been a storm raging since last night and the wind is currently howling outside. Multiple people I know posted photos of downed trees this morning. It's only raining lightly now but everything is soaked. No more eating lunch on the balcony, at least not this week.
My parents came to visit on Saturday to see Laila, but my father couldn't resist checking on a bunch of stuff around the house. He brought me some bad news, unfortunately--his advice about the master bathroom shower was not to use it. It wasn't in amazing condition when I bought the place, but now the shower door is sticking because the top hinge is bending, the grout is in bad enough condition that water might be leaking through to the floor when the shower is on, and it's in otherwise bad shape. It needs a new enclosure and new tiling and might just need to be ripped out and put back together, which would be expensive right at a time when we need to buy Laila a crib because she's outgrowing her little bassinet. Fortunately we have another full bathroom we can use in the meantime and it's not like the plumbing has any problems, I just won't be taking a shower back there for a while. And I was so excited to have two showers when I moved in.
The last farmer's market of the year was last week, and we got there late so we didn't even really get anything. There weren't nearly as many Farmer's Market Dinner tag entries this year as there were last year because this year,![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee really loved the Filipino food from Pecking Order, and since Pecking Order was there every other week, that's what we ended up getting half the time. And it's definitely a little harder to make delicious meals every day with a small baby! We've made bigger meals and eaten a lot of leftovers, but we actually go out to eat less than we did when sashagee was pregnant! Today we're slow-cooking shortribs and
I'm sitting in the sun nook right now, working, but it's more of a rain nook. Summer held on a long time in Chicago--even as recently as a week ago the temperatures were above 20°C--but there's been a storm raging since last night and the wind is currently howling outside. Multiple people I know posted photos of downed trees this morning. It's only raining lightly now but everything is soaked. No more eating lunch on the balcony, at least not this week.
My parents came to visit on Saturday to see Laila, but my father couldn't resist checking on a bunch of stuff around the house. He brought me some bad news, unfortunately--his advice about the master bathroom shower was not to use it. It wasn't in amazing condition when I bought the place, but now the shower door is sticking because the top hinge is bending, the grout is in bad enough condition that water might be leaking through to the floor when the shower is on, and it's in otherwise bad shape. It needs a new enclosure and new tiling and might just need to be ripped out and put back together, which would be expensive right at a time when we need to buy Laila a crib because she's outgrowing her little bassinet. Fortunately we have another full bathroom we can use in the meantime and it's not like the plumbing has any problems, I just won't be taking a shower back there for a while. And I was so excited to have two showers when I moved in.
The last farmer's market of the year was last week, and we got there late so we didn't even really get anything. There weren't nearly as many Farmer's Market Dinner tag entries this year as there were last year because this year,
sashagee really loved the Filipino food from Pecking Order, and since Pecking Order was there every other week, that's what we ended up getting half the time. And it's definitely a little harder to make delicious meals every day with a small baby! We've made bigger meals and eaten a lot of leftovers, but we actually go out to eat less than we did when sashagee was pregnant! Today we're slow-cooking shortribs and 
