I actually have seen true alcoholic ice cream before, with large alcoholic content. Made with liquid nitrogen. But it wasn't very good, really, as the more alcohol you put in the less cream you get to put in. And most people don't keep liquid nitrogen in their house, so practicality is rather low outside of the Caltech campus.

I'd suggest sticking with smoothies and milkshakes, as previously mentioned. And magic brownies a la mode.

Mmmm....ice cream. I had some pina colada ice cream at an Indian restaurant at lunch today. It was tasty but very rich.

In memememe news, I just got off the phone with 1. My mom, 2. My BF and 3. My girlfriend. Seems my sister and her new boyfriend have set a wedding date of Feb. 26th. Now, let me 'splain here. When I say "new" boyfriend, I mean NEW. They've been dating all of 8 weeks. Yes, WEEKS. That's 2 months, 60 days. If you can still count it in days, it's too freakin' soon to get married.

If it was just them, that would be one thing. I would still think she's rushing into it, but at least it wouldn't be dragging 3 kids into it, too. He has 1 kid from a previous marriage and my sis has 2. Her oldest, my niece H, has not been adjusting well to them dating and now he's going to be moving in and living with them full-time?

Also, this quickie marriage thing starting to be a pattern. Her first marriage went like this: starting dating in August, engaged in October, married in March. That marriage lasted 5 years.

I'm beginning to wonder if she's pregnant. She has always said that she wants our brother to perform her wedding (he's a pastor), but there is no way he could perform a wedding in Feb. His wife has a c-section scheduled for next Friday. She won't be recovered from that in time to leave her alone with a newborn and a toddler. She won't be able to lift the toddler yet at that point. And, yet, she says they don't want to wait any later. They don't want to do it in March because her first marriage was in March. Not April because his first marriage was April. And May? Way too long to wait. WHAT?!? At that point, they will only have been dating 6 months. That's too long to wait to do something that is, supposedly, a lifelong committment??

Sorry for the rant. I'm a bit freaked and a lot worried right now.

ChiKat, that is not at all undue freaking. Day-um

Day-um

I know! I don't know what, if anything, I can even do about this. My mom has expressed her concerns to both my sis and her boyfriend. They still seem dead set on doing this NOW. Which is one of the reasons I wonder if she's pregnant.

Huh. I'd be freaking, too.

ChiKat, I hope it turns out well. I suspected the same when my sis re-met and rather instantly was engaged to her now intended. She was, to put it kindly, miffed when the subject was raised.

When Good Critters Go A Little Bad
Kitty was curled in the nook of my arm, head resting just below my elbow and sleeping rather soundly. Dream growl. I turn a little with thoughts of, "How cute..." Must have, literally, moved a muscle. Said muscle was now chomped firmly, but not painfully, in dream-hunting kitty jaws. Another little growl and then she wakes up. And proceeds to lick my arm clean showing me that it was all an oopsie mistake. Now my arm hurts a little but only from the scratchy tongue. It was cute watching her be all cat-like and predator but taking care not to hurt me.

ION, I should not watch crime shows on bank robbery that are in set Phoenix. Because one of these times? Gonna be the ex's dad and I don't really want to relive that so much.

To recap: really really really fast marriages seem to be happening and my sis at least wasn't pregnant, though offended I asked; my kitty is a less than fierce hunter, but still quite snuggly and soft as rabbit fur; and I still seem to have issues from something that happened a decade ago.

Sleep now.

Nora, I'm so sorry. That's just freaky. And here I was hoping he may get some help. I didn't realize how bad it was.

Someone asked about good companies for renters' insurance. I really like State Farm. Of course, you can't get State Farm in MA, so that may be part of my frustration. But, I always had wonderful luck with them the rest of my life.

I'm up and trying to finish a paper. I hope this goes better than it did last night!

Good luck with the paper, vw!

Cass, that is an adorable story.

I am work and feeling fuzzy around the edges. I'm in my plan period now and have an hour until my first actual class, and I'm wishing I had gotten a bigger coffee right about now. I'm also wishing that they hadn't added another special needs student to my C-block class. No, for those of you read my LJ, this is not the same kid I wrote about last week; this is another one. This in itself is challenging, but I can deal.

What annoys me, though, is that I have a tutor in the class who is all but useless. She's very nice, but she takes no initiative and has no teaching experience at all--she only does what I tell her explicitely to do, and since she shows up late every day I don't even get a chance to talk to her ahead of time. She ends up sitting in the back of the room doing nothing unless I give her instructions, and dammit, when I have 24 students (many with special needs) demanding my attention, I don't have time to give her teacher-lessons!!

Argh.

I'm working with the SPED coordinator to get this problem fixed, but it's irritating me to no end.

Gronklies.

I am staying home from work today with the beginnings of a cold. If I sleep the thing off, chances are I'll feel much better tomorrow. Obviously I'm not going to be doing any heavy packing or house prep, but it might be a good day to go through papers, etc.

{{{Anne}}} Feel better soon, girl. Also, I'll be getting a package in the mail to you later this week. I'm so excited about it! I'm sending you LOTS!

Thanks for the paper good wishes, Kristin. The rough draft is done. Now to send off to my editors for comments while I jump in the shower. Must get butt moving!