How nice for you, Trudy.

Oh, Cindy! I wasn't pooh-poohing! I'm SOOOOO sorry about your horrible scare. I just wanted to give props to the good docs of the world.

t hugs the hell out of Cindy

How nice for you, Trudy.

Oh, Cindy! I wasn't pooh-poohing! I'm SOOOOO sorry about your horrible scare. I just wanted to give props to the good docs of the world.

t hugs the hell out of Cindy

I bread and fry the flowers also, but that doesn't sound appealing.

Skipping to the end to extoll the virtues of frying the flowers. HMOG, it is SO DAMN GOOD! Raq, it really is yummy.

Remove the pistils from the flowers, rinse them off, and place them on a rack or towel to dry off. Coat the bottom of a frying pan with olive oil and heat. Make a batter consisting of flour (semolina if possible), water, egg (if desired), and add salt and pepper to taste. The batter should be not quite as thick as pancake batter. Dip the flowers individually in the mixture and drop into the oil. It will not take long for each side to brown. Remove them from the oil and immediately place them on a paper towel to drain the excess oil. Sprinkle lightly with salt and EAT!

Guess what I'm making for dinner tonight....

Off I go to catch up.

Perkins - I found the galler(ies): The Vanishing Tattoo. They're in the left sidebar.

Trudy, I am glad your doctor is being so accomodating, and particularly that the path report was good. It just seemed a little...odd.

Sorry if it seemed odd.

We just had a chain of rotten doctor stories (all of which are legitimately scary as hell) and I had LITERALLY just gotten off the phone with a good one...

I'm glad the munchkin is going to be ok and that he has such a bulldog for a Mommy.

Perkins - I found the galler(ies):

Thanks!

vinyl border off the bathroom wall. and about a third of the underlayer. yay me.

I am also proud of myself. I almost paniced at the bank balance. then I remembered that there were a number of unexpected expensese these last two weeks. that is pretty much the difference. So it wasn't money mismanagement, just life. I am not excited, but I am hopeful that we aren't that far from getting a really good handle on this whole money thing.

ION I am eating an overripe fuji apple right now. And it's not particularly great. Or even good. Bleah.

Wow, Cindy. So relieved Chris is OK.

Thanks for posting the SB worship, juliana. I especially loved this:

He's like what would happen if God were like, "It's Woman's birthday today, what shall we give her?"

Must bookmark that one...

Susan, would it be at all helpful for someone to point out that this means you've sent out something like 12 resumes?

Yeah, but in my last job search I was averaging an interview for every 4-5 jobs I applied for, and in a weaker economy. Hence my fears that I've lost my cover letter mojo, or that everyone is looking at that freelancing/time off for baby and saying, "No way!" Otherwise I can't make sense of the disconnect between past performance and current results. Unless it's small sample size. Which it could be. But I'm still a little worried, and wondering if I need to do something to fix this. If I don't get an interview at UW by the end of September, I'm wondering if it might be useful to call their HR office and say, "Look, can someone tell me what's missing here? Why isn't someone with my background and 4+ years of progressively responsible experience at your fair institution at least getting nibbles?" Only politely and deferentially.