More interesting things to see as we left the main building of the museum for the Butterfly House and surrounding exhibits.
A butterfly alights on Dave
Pretty Grasshoppers Gettin’ It On
Jeni with crazy bug
Red Wolf (Not Rambling) 
Dave Unhappy About an Uncaged Spider
(See the spider against the white of the ceiling?)
Saturday night was the annual get-together for Dave’s company, Amkor. They hosted a fun and food event at the Durham Life and Science Museum. It was really nice!! The food was OK, hotdogs and hamburgers, but it was great getting to have free run of the museum and watching all the kids run around having such a great time.
Some highlights…
Where they faked the moon landing
An amazing colony of leaf-cutter ants 
And what apparently was part of David Bowie’s costume from The Man Who Fell To Earth 
I’ll post more later.
Instead of falling into the old trap of going out to dinner on Friday night, we went to the grocery and then came home and cooked. This was nice because we tend to put off grocery shopping until far too late in the weekend, and it was nice to get it out of the way.
Dinner was Red Snapper Livornese. I added zuchinni and broccoli stems and red peppers, and I didn’t follow the recipe that well, but it was de-lish. The aroma while it was cooking smelled just like the inside of a fancy restaurant! I served the vegetables and fish over angel hair pasta with a light broth.
Unfortunately, the fish didn’t turn out very good at all. It was rubbery and had none of the flavor of the vegetables and broth. I’m blaming it on bad fish, but if you have a suggestion for what bad cooking method results in rubbery fish, share it with me.
Thursday night we went out to dinner at the Lynnwood Grill, fondly known as The Bar.
Mmm, a nice pitcher of Endo Cottonwood, a BLT with cheese, and pickle chips. Tasty!
We got to see Alissa and chat with her, which was nice. Tried calling a few people but nobody was available to come out and play.
Then we went home and watched another silly episode of Eureka.
More nature news from outside my office building. Aren’t you relieved that these pictures aren’t from inside my office building? 🙂
We’ve had a number of these large, fuzzy caterpillars waltzing around outside, so today I snapped a picture. My husband complains that there’s no scale in these photos – sorry. This guy is about 2 inches long.
View a video of him on the move here. Someone should set it to music!
I *love* looking at my wedding pictures. Yes, it’s been 4 years but I felt like a princess that day! Maybe if I had more opportunities in a year to do that, I wouldn’t obsess, but that’s just how it is. Here, unrequested then, are some of my favorite wedding photographs.
I went to the hand specialist at Raleigh Orthopaedic yesterday. I was relieved to hear that part of the numbness/tingling that I’d been feeling in my right thumb was a result of my watch! It seems that the radial nerve that passes alongside the underside of my forearm and up and over my wrist to my thumb is very sensitive, and any pressure/compression will irritate it. The doctor proved this by (unintentionally) making me cry when he lightly thumped my arm in the right spot. It’s called Wartenberg’s Syndrome.
But it seems that is not all that’s going on. He suggested that what is causing pain when I use the wrist in a hyperflexed, weight bearing situation is a ganglion cyst. He suggested an MRI to be sure, but said that I shouldn’t get the MRI if I wouldn’t consider surgery to resolve the problem. I guess I’m allowing that option because I have the MRI scheduled for Saturday.
It was only 2 miles, but hubby and me went for a bike ride after we got home last night! Woot!
Last night we went to see The Break-Up at the $1.50 movie theatre. I love that place, even though it can be kinda sketchy after 9PM.
I really liked this movie! It was funny and I cried a little and the ending wasn’t totally predictable. I loved seeing Jason Bateman and Vincent D’Onofrio. Good job, Vince!
Watching the movie triggered these old memories of the heart-wrenching trauma I went through with old boyfriends in college. Having conversations while sobbing, shouting out irrational ultimatums, counting on girlfriends to be there for you whenever you need a shoulder to cry on. It was weird feeling all of that all over again, now that I’m in a very stable and happy relationship with my husband. Strange.
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