five highlights

* i made rocky-road bars for the first time this weekend. though the recipe called for a 9x13" pan, i feel it should have gone in an 8x8 or 9x9 because the crust was thin. otherwise, though, they were delicious!

* i spent all day sunday working in gardens. first, my parents' yard, then YB's. i pruned many bushes and shaped a few shrubs. i also got to prune trixie's 8' bonsai tree, which was my favourite part.

* today, i decided to fix the decaying window ledge in my apartment. it's about a three-foot stretch of my 21-foot window ledge, but it's been slowly disintegrating for the past couple of years (presumably because there was water damage over which the previous tenants just painted). so, i chiseled all the blistering paint off last week and let the ledge dry out fully. today, i gave it two coats of super-thick, super-fancy primer and wound up filling all the cracks along the ledge's 21 feet, as well. then, feeling buoyed, i took down all eight curtain panels, washed them and re-hung them (while wet, so as to reduce wrinkling). i am very pleased with the results, all around.

* this evening, i went to a screening of This Is The End, the new frat-boy-humour comedy from seth rogen, james franco and all their pals. it was, as expected, juvenile and crude and not my cup of tea, but seth rogen was in attendance, so that was different.

* tomorrow, i'm heading into the office because i have some work to do. more importantly, there's going to be cake in the boardroom in the afternoon... and you know i love cake in the boardroom.