Oh. I HNTJS lately.

Well, Jessica HTY.

After several years with my plastic set, I upgraded to stainless last year. I have no regrets, except perhaps not doing it sooner.

I do like the stainless, but the new (Oxo, I think) ones with the angled measurements are fab. My old roommate who is a baking fiend has them, and I've been thinking about them ever since.

We're slowly upgrading what's left of our cheap cookware,

I'm going through this process as well, though right now the upshot is that I have a very few good pans that get used for everything. I tossed the crappy stuff when I moved.

Tom and I are excitedly making our way through our first Cook's Illustrated. It rocks!

In other news, I am still slightly shaken by an awful dream I had last night where Tom told me he didn't love me, and never did. It went on and on in agonzing detail, but that's the gist of it. i woke up crying. BAH!

Gah, Nora, that sucks. The mind can be a real bitch sometimes.

Someone please tell me to get off my ass and into the shower. I'm going to be late to work as it is, and I've having a hard time caring. At least the dog is already walked.

I think about tagging Jon a lot, if by tag, you mean...(Sorry...one of my favorite BJG's) I have actual plans tonight...not datey ones, but meeting local Humans of the helpful, yes? Unless I really do want something extra from the pizza man. It's a gallery opening that promises to "annoy a conservative" so I am so there. What else could a bohemian crip do? Besides dust off the all black?

The other joy of Utah January is here. The first is the inversion, where the crap air is trapped in the valleys and the good air is up where the ski resorts are. It's a Ski Board plot.

Then there's the fog. In my town we've still got two-block visibility for headlights and such, but in the bad places visibility is 0. There are freeways through some of those bad places, and it happens every couple of years that there's a dozen-or-so car pileup in the fog. Gods, I love the bus.

Hi! My Interbunny came back!

uh-oh. I had a question about an online query thing, and the person in my office I was asking, and my boss came to my desk to figure it out. All of a sudden, my boss says, "is your middle name Deirdre?" I say, yes, and then realize she's reading my netscape tabs, one of which says, "Nora Deirdre's Message Board." Oops, and UGH. I think I've got to try to be more suave and smooth. So, I'm outta here!

And, Hi Lilty!

Hi, Lilty...

Timelies!

So, Teacup Guy is upgraded to boyfriend? Sweet. I can concentrate my 'shipping on Lilty and Music Store Guy