Meet Frankie

 

I worked on campus today, and when I got home, Frankie was waiting for me.

When Travalon got home, he put Roy Jr. on Frankie's lap.

Frankie came with that name, but look at the eyes - she's a girl! So I am saying her name is Francesca and we just call her Frankie. She is a weighted stuffy, so she is supposed to help a person relax. I debated between her (she's a cat) and Quinn the Koala, but Travalon said Frankie was more original. A blue cat? She's almost the color of my old rabbit Cashmere.

I forgot to tell this crazy story: I ordered some books from Germany for a professor in December, and in early February it said they were finally going to arrive... and then it said they were lost. I requested replacements but they said we had to request a refund and reorder the books. We got the refund very quickly, I'll say that, but due to the exchange rate it was a lot less than we had originally paid. Then in mid-March the books arrived - was it the old order? the new one? Who can say? The books were all there... and so were three bags of tomato paste.

Good thing these didn't burst and get all over the books! The plot thickens, because this brand is made in Nigeria. What the heck? Did our box of books travel via Nigeria? One of our grad students said that her parents will send her packages from Germany, and sometimes stuff is missing, but weirder, sometimes stuff is added. She got one box with a really ugly necklace in it, and she sent a photo to her mom and said, "Thanks, but this isn't really my style," and her mom was like, "The heck? I didn't put that in there!" So apparently receiving packages from Germany is always an adventure.

Tonight Travalon and I went to Lola's because it was the last day they would have the pelmeni that he got on Mardi Gras that was so tasty. We each got an order of it, and then I did get a drink with gin and pear and lime that tasted like drinking a flower, and I even had a few bites of Travalon's blondie a la mode, so there went my Lenten resolution today. (The only one I hadn't broken yet - not eating sugar.) But oh my goodness, the food there is so good, and today was Motown Monday, so the DJ was playing excellent R&B and soul music. Tomorrow I will get back on the wagon. I wish I'd realized there was a bluegrass jam at the music club - that would have saved us some money and calories. It wasn't mentioned in the club newsletter, but they posted a video of it on social media. Hopefully they have another one sometime soon.

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