Sunday's Snippets

READING:  While reading The Island at the Center of the World, I got interested in Dutch history, so I'm delving into that from various sources, which aren't as numerous as one would hope, so my reading is sort of scattered amongst various sources and books.

SWIMMING NEWS:  IU swimmers are busy training for the upcoming season.  Arrival of additional team sportswear had Matt excited about the really wonderful package their team sponsor provided this year.  (My speculation, and it is only speculation, is that since the IU basketball team is ranked 1st in preseason polls, that the team sponsor, which provides all the teamwear for IU sports teams, wanted to hand out some really spiffy things as they would get a lot of air time for their company...this year's package is really spiffy.   The IU Men's Swimming & Diving Team, if not ranked in the Top 10 preseason, is very close to it, so apparently spiffy apparel is a little reward for all that.  Just speculating, of course.) Here's a fun shot of six of the sophomore IU swimmers hanging out somewhere other than the pool.  Not dates, just friends.

Photo:  In front: Cynthia and Brooklyn; In Back:  Steve, Bronwyn, Ian, and Matt

COOKING BYTES:   Twitter baking pals were all baking doughnuts this weekend, Baked Orange Doughnuts to be exact.  Mark and I thought these were the best yet.
      Here's the recipe, and my advice is to use really juicy flavorful oranges, and I subbed in half orange juice for the liquid in the glaze (i.e. half milk and half freshly squeezed orange juice) to add a little more orange flavor.

FAV NEW FIND:  I have a new ap for my iPhone called IMDb and it's free. It lets you look any movie or television show, giving all sorts of information about the actors/actresses, a blurb about the show/movie, air times, date of originals, etc. For someone like me who is at a loss for all of this, this is quite handy to have at one's fingertips. 

FAV THIS PAST WEEK:  Matt was home for 21 hours and we had a wonderful time catching up, running errands, cleaning cars, eating together, and watching a movie...oh, and he and Mark took a trip to Sam's Club to stock up on big box items that college boys tend to go through a lot of...power bars, bottled water, paper products, detergent, cereal, etc.  I stayed home as these trips are downright frightening...lol. 
WEEK IN REVIEW:  Working quite a bit, reading in the evenings with the still-recovering Vash at my side, we can see definite improvements so two more weeks of being confined to the family room hopefully will be it.  Had a great time with Matt home, the entire week flew by in a blink of an eye. 

LOOKING FORWARD TO:   At the IMA...Provincetown, click here for details.  At the ISO:  Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony, click here for details.