The Canning Room: Chicken Tikka Masala from Su Casa Taqueria

Who woulda guessed the best Indian food I've had in ages would be from the local Mexican joint I passed on my way home tonight?! haha- I'm celebrating because Calvin and I were both gone for work all day and the dog didn't freak out and scratch anything in the house to pieces. Whew! We've been working on a little case of separation anxiety with him. It's getting better, though... Luckily, Calvin works in a dog-friendly office and is usually able to bring Akimbo along, but couldn't today. (They also sit on yoga balls at their desks, have a pool-table in the break-room and have free monthly bicycle maintenance for all the employees...!)

I did some work today with the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley. Great people. Last week, I flew back to Tucson to do a training with the U of A College of Agriculture - their stories brought me back to my days at summer camp and somehow in the middle of the training, I found myself climbing up a telephone pole and shooting across a zip line for someone's story about a new ropes course that they have. It was the scariest thing I've done since...well, I guess since the week before that, when we rode our bikes down the steep, curvy Lombard Street with hundreds of other cyclists during a critical mass ride...but that's another story altogether! Let's just say both Calvin and I feel like we're both working in fields that we love...and often under very unusual circumstances.

Since we're both just trying to keep afloat with new jobs, a new home in a new city, we're going to give ourselves some time before making any decisions about the wedding. At least until after the holidays. For the time being, we have a notebook on the coffee table. Whenever either of us has an idea about what, when, where or how to go about things in a meaningful way, we're writing it down there so we don't forget it, but we're holding off on discussing it for now. We're both fearing the slippery slope of the wedding-planning world - that could land us chin-deep in bridal magazines and lengthy conversations about frosting. For now, we're trying to focus on things like how to get to the grocery store and when they clean the streets in our neighborhood. (I've already been ticketed for parking on street-sweeping day - ugh). One step at a time...we'll keep you all posted.