P.S.!

I also forgot to mention our fun fun night out in Birmingham last weekend!  We went to see the Alabama Shakes at the BottleTree Cafe.  They were AMAZING!  Do yourself a favor and download their EP for $4 at their website, you will NOT be sorry!  They are blowing up the charts!  They are from Athens, AL and the five piece put on a darn fine show.  We have been seeing them billed on shows all around town, and even heard them covered on NPR one morning.  (Seattle folk - they're playin' the Crocodile at the end of January, GO!!)

Before heading to the show we went climbing at First Ave Rocks for a spell, then dinner at Rojo - which is fast becoming my favorite place to eat in Bham!  Solid Meximerican food, not to mention decent Bloody Marys...

ok, just made two batches of soap with Vija and Emily - we are a soap factory now!!  it went a lot faster with three folks working together and doing two batches - another experiment in oatmeal, orange peel, and vanilla bean, and a half batch with cedar oil as well - now we wait for two weeks for it to cure!!  

all for now!