The Bunnies Do Easter

Easter being a holiday of bunnies and all, we found it our duty as Team Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny to do it up! We gave up junk food for Lent, so you'll gave to forgive the culinary nature of this post--we were pretty excited to eat whatever our little hearts desired.

First thing in the morning, I surprised Eddy with some bunny french toast and vegan sausage.

Then we donned the bunny slippers the Cobbs sent

and whiled away the day reading and playing Super Mario 3.

until it was time to have homemade chili dogs and sweet potato fries for dinner!

Yumsy Easter!

Hidden Gems from the Edwin Monroe Westbrook IV Digital Photograph Collection

After 2 years of nagging convincing, I finally got Eddy to get started uploading some of his photos to Flickr. That means you can now enjoy such favorites as:

Nicci doing jazz hands on our camping trip in Yosemite,

the magnolia tree outside of our St. Louis apartment and, (drumroll...)

Eddy with long flowing locks and a weird beard!

Some Us Time

With all of the house buying, car buying and MS 150 stuff we've been doing lately we just haven't had much time for us, you know? Thankfully Awful Library Books, one of my favorite blogs, came to the rescue yet again with some affordable couples therapy in the form of two books: How to Live with a Neurotic Husband and How to Live with a Neurotic Wife. Here's what we've learned:

1. There is apparently a danger of Eddy decorating our new house in a way that is not at all safe for work.
   
   
   
   
2. Nicci is apparently a huge brat because Eddy reads to her every night before bed. (But we already knew that, didn't we?)
   
   
   

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2 of 13,000

Team Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny rode the BP MS 150 this weekend from Houston to Austin! We were 2 of 13,000 riders--the largest MS 150 ride in the country. BUT, we were 1 of maybe 5 tandem bikes on the ride, so take that, MS 150!

Our friends Dave and Dana also rode.

And we got to make an awesome pit stop at my friends Damon and Linda's "Ranchito." Here I am with Damon and Jac: their standard poodle and my new bff.

Check out how tired we looked after day 1:

And this is Eddy trying hard not to sleep on the bus home after day 2:

Such a fun trip! We may even consent to ride a bike again... someday... Like, a really long time from now...

We're Mentally Unstable

Last year we did not ride the MS 150 because it was adjacent to the Texas Library Association Annual Conference--a conference I am always involved in. This year, we said what the hey! So on Tuesday morning we drove to Austin. On Friday we drove back. Saturday and Sunday we will ride our tandem BACK to Austin and then catch a bus home from Austin on Sunday. Crazy much? Yep. But anyway, here's what we did on the first leg of our double Austin madness. Threadgills:

South Congress:

And peacocks at the Mayfield Park:

We also hung out with tons of friends, but we didn't take any photos of that because we were too busy drinking margaritas... And now, back to Austin!

Dr. Scott

Remember the fleet?

The fleet is no more. Now we have Dr. Scott (no relation to Brad or Janet)! Dr. Scott is a green Subaru Outback. Our humongo tandem bike fits comfortably in Dr. Scott:

Captain Duvet loves Dr. Scott:

And he served us well on our trip to Austin this week.

It's the end of an era.

Stros

This past weekend, we attended the opening game of the Astros! It was the first time we've been to Minute Maid when the roof was open.



There's a train with pumpkins in it. The conductor wears overalls. The train goes forward when there is a home run. There were two during the game. I have no clue what the significance of this is.



Thanks so much to Valerie and Kim who gave us the tickets! (They're our favorite future neighbors.)

New Job Nicci!

For those of you who missed the premature posting earlier this week, here's the big news!

{Handmade card from Dana}

All of the paperwork has been submitted and it's official. I am the new Coordinator of Digital Operations at the University of Houston Libraries! I'll still be working with the Digital Library team, but with more responsibilities and more prestige. Definitely more prestige. It's my first librarian job and I am super excited!

When we found out, Eddy got me a 1/2 bottle of champagne (1/2 bottle because I DID have to work the next day) and made me a special Indian food dinner.

Doesn't the person in this picture strike you as one ready for more responsibility at work?

America, Mall of

When I was in Minneapolis I had the chance to get out to Mall of America. I saw the indoor roller coasters:

and the bronze Sponge Bob.

But I was more wowed by LEGO world. It's a whole world of LEGOs! Most astounding was not the two-story transformer

nor the dragon (although it was awesome)

but this huge wall of LEGOs organized by color.

Sooooo sweet.

Iz Famous!

I recently traveled to Philly for the ACRL conference where I presented with a colleague about a Wikipedia project we piloted last Fall. Check out this sweet write up in Inside Higher Ed. Professional Nicci is so famous!

Look how professional I look in this photo by Emily DeWan!

A Culinary Tour of Places Nicci Thinks are Too Cold

I just returned to sunny Houston from a two-conference marathon of a trip. I went to VRA/ARLIS in Minneapolis and ACRL in Philly. Both places had snow. Both places also had food--some of it quite good!

The highlight of Minneapolis was Hell's Kitchen, where they make their own everything. They gave me a free jar of homemade peanut butter with my order and they made their own ketchup for their handmade sweet potato fries for heaven's sake. So yummy. I didn't get too many photos, because I was a little entranced with the live music scene there.

At the Mall of America, I had some yummy gelato:

And a delicious beet salad at Crave where everything was locally sourced.

Then it was off to Philly for Reading Terminal Market:

and the beloved Continental.

Best lobster mac ever. Mmm.