Mixed unmetaphor

Good things

• euchre evening plus hugs
  
• signing up for this year's CSA
  
• live theater with friends
  
• a new vegetable peeler
  
• giving blood (which now feels like a political statement too; but I do it because I still can since it seems better than the alternative)
  
• and getting a free fleece scarf for it

Un-good things

• overtiredness
  
• with the resulting greater emotional fragility
  
• burning sugar syrup in my one pareve pot enough that I need to replace it
  
• and having the apartment smell of burning
  
• endless valentine's day commercialism
  
• seeing most of one of my favorite houses bulldozed
  
• appointment scheduling snafus

Update (0740, 2/13/04)
Not only has most of the house been bulldozed, but also the wonderful trellis, and much of the beautifully laid-out yard/garden. I have the horrible suspicion that it's turning into a horrible upscale townhouse-condo situation. Goodbye to the house I lusted after for years.

Numerous applications of hot water may have rescued the pareve pot after all. And the burning smell has faded, too.