okra: Bleh. But generally speaking, ok.

Despite being sick, today was rather productive. I ended up calling in sick after a night of little sleep. Keith was sick too, probably even more so than I, and had to get up several times in the night. Which then led to even less sleep for both of us.

While at home, I checked two more pages of citations and made five more pairs of origami crane earrings. I have two of the matching boxes complete, and when I get the rest of them done, I'll post them on Etsy. Yay!

After finally getting up this morning, I went to make an English muffin. Woefully, though, the toaster refused to work. It finally just quit. I had been considering getting one of those fancy (sort of gimmicky sounding) toasters that not only make toast, but poach an egg as well. This just sped up my decision making. All the reviews that I have seen say that they work really well. So, I guess we'll see. I ordered one from Amazon, using some of my rewards card gift certificates. (If you order a lot of things from Amazon, I highly recommend the Amazon Visa rewards card. It has certainly payed off for me, anyway.)

My toaster wasn't anything particularly fancy, but I'm kind of sad that it is now defunct. It was a birthday present from a good friend, Daniel, my senior year of high school (yikes, I guess that thing has lasted). Another friend (Spencer!) and I came up with this really weird prank of taking frosting, smearing it to pieces of toast, and then sticking the toast to Daniel's car (late at night, of course). Imagine trying to explain all of those loaves of Texas toast to the old lady manning the day old bread store. She made me promise four times that I wasn't going to eat it. After "toasting" his car multiple times, Daniel finally figured out who it was and hence, I got a toaster for my birthday (on the premise that mine had probably worn out from all of the toasting). Busted! Well, now the official "toasting" toaster has worn out. And I didn't even get to use it for pranks. Sigh. Now I'll have to think up a new prank involving not only toast, but poached eggs. Mmmm, that sounds delicious. I can prank myself.