I think I have effectively put off working on the house for the night. I'm only mildly miffed at myself since I did a lot of work last night. Also, I did manage to make a Home Despot run on my lunch hour, so that has to count towards the "work on the house" quota, right?

Man, Trudy, and Erin, and now Cass! It's a good week to be a Bitch.

Wow, the Top 4 of Evil.

Also, I did manage to make a Home Despot run on my lunch hour, so that has to count towards the "work on the house" quota, right?

Please forgive a whole lot of skipping...cause my brain is fried. It has, indeed, been a rough day. Sort of in the diamond shoes category and sort of not.

I succeeded in not going mental on any of the republican guests at the inn, but just barely.

In the afternoon, I took three boys (two 14 and one 10) down to find a counter-demonstration and we were completely denied. It was a police state inside the 'perimeter'. Completely unaccessible. And really rankerous. For 'winners' the repubs were certainly cranky, whiny and sarcastic.

I remember standing on a flatbed truck watching Clinton's second inaugural parade and having a woman next to me lean over and ask what the men on the rooftops were doing with 'sticks'. "Um, lady, those would be sniper rifles." She was shocked. No one questioned that kind of security then. It made sense.

But even in the post-911 world, what we saw today was just so bizarro. Completely out of control.

Homeland security is the new corporate fraud. SOMEBODY is getting rich from all this paranoia...and at least for today, DC has to pay. Both in tax dollars (what did they say, 12 million?) and in ambient stress.

Except for the fur coated airheads (I couldn't count them all, there were so many) and defense contractors, NObody was happy in this town today.

Jeez I need a mood transplant.

Sorry Beej. Good on you for demonstrating, though. I'm still in denial.

Oh, look, it's Fay! And Pyramids!

Cass, I'm sorry I had to bug out earlier (dinner and getting the boy to bed). But I'm doing well--getting over my head cold and relieved that they've decided to wait until Mom's over her bronchitis before doing the bypass surgery. I'll be able to see her this weekend (she's going home tonight) and I'll also be there for the surgery.

I hope you're doing OK.

they've decided to wait until Mom's over her bronchitis before doing the bypass surgery.

That's sensible. No reason to actively court infection, y'know?

That's sensible. No reason to actively court infection, y'know?

Not to mention all the strain a hacking cough can put on a sternum that's just been cracked open like a walnut. I was HUGELY relieved to get the call saying they postponed it.

Oh, and my attempt at tomato-ness for my pasta turned out passable, though not as flavorful as I would have liked, though the pasta in question was artichoke-stuffed tortellini, so that provided enough flavor.

Because I know you were all on the edge of your seat wondering.

a sternum that's just been cracked open like a walnut.

Are they definitely going in that way? I've read about laparoscopic bypasses, with no crackage at all.

though the pasta in question was artichoke-stuffed tortellini, so that provided enough flavor.

That sounds simply yummy. Even without sauce. My favorite pasta is pureed asparagus-stuffed ravioli. I had some once in a restaurant in DC once--with a light garlic butter sauce. Divine.

This makes me hungry even though I pigged out on tacos for dinner. And I have iced oatmeal cookies to boot.