fat & sassy

we've just come from dinner at matt & sara's - grapefruit-topped salad, salty roasted asparagus, wild mushroom risotto, fresh homemade bread, and homemade blueberry ice cream in little sugar cookie cups matt made. boy, will we miss them when they move to rhode island, as much for the incredible food as for the fact that we can talk about johannes with them and it's not weird.

i sooo hope spring is here for good. it really improves my mood. more tulips and irises are pushing up through the soil and i hope they bloom soon. our lilac tree is budding, too. we finally got to take our bikes out for a spin this afternoon; i'm sure my speed (or lack of it) grated on justin's nerves, but i apparently have lost whatever leg muscles i developed last year. as long as the weather keeps, though, i can keep riding every day until i build back up to the kind of rides we took last year. my ultimate goal would be to be able to bike up the path that goes down to edgewater park. last summer i had to walk my bike back up the hill, but i had the down part, well, down. at any rate, as long as i keep riding, i feel better, and when i feel better, i have more hope. and i can use all of the hope i can get.