Oh, billytea. Actuarial charm and risque humor. What would we do without you?

Normally I get accused of risque charm and actuarial humour.

Give me a big red button and I shall poke at it to see what happens.

Well, that's blabbed all my bedroom secrets.

The cats woke me up, fighting. Since 4am I have given them both time-outs, twice. I have noticed that there are lights on in the garage of the house the nice neighbors moved out of a couple weeks ago. I heard some weird sounds coming from the driveway - distinctly small animal rather than potential human intruder.

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ETA: Small animal noises from driveway? Not so much an exterior small animal as an interior bat. Harvey came trotting into the bedroom a while ago, with it in his mouth. He was proudly growling over his catch. I woke Daniel - mostly in the faint hopes that the bat was still alive and might need to be caught again. Had I realized it was an ex-bat, I could have dealt with it alone. Heh. Could have, for certain. Might still have chosen to be girly and wake up the man to handle it.

They had the sweetest news story last night. I ONLY watch local news when we have a hurricane, because normally it is only violent crime or car crashes. But now it is all stormy stuff.

So they were showing people on the beaches doing turtle rescue. There were all these itty bitty baby turtles that were stuck in seaweed and not strong enough to battle the rough waves. They were gathering them to hold at the wildlife reserve until after the hurricane. When the seas are normal again they will release the little cuties.

It was all kinds a cute.

I wonder if any guy has ever been asked "Do you take this woman" and just replied "You know, I'd thought so, but after seeing the way she was over getting this day ready, I just don't know if I can live like that."

Lots of people tried to talk BIL into doing this after listening to his about to be bride screaming outside the church. She was screaming at the top of her lungs that it was her wedding and things would be done her way. Alas, he went through with it and we have listened to her scream in the same manner for the last 10 years. Sometimes it is a clue of what's to come.

Mornings are stupid.

I've been threadsucking for recipes. I've found tantalizing mentions of some but no specifics:

Hil talking about her grandmother's recipes

I'll see what I can do with those. I've got one or two that I think I can write down. Most of the rest are either still in German and untested with modern ingrediants or just way too vague for anyone who hasn't seen it made to be able to reproduce it.

I felt Oh So Tired last night and went to sleep and could not get comfortable. Woke up this morning all dizzy and yucky and took my temp and, sure enough, a fever of 101. Not so bad, except we are supposed to drive up the coast to see the BF's family today. We rented a car and everything and haven't seen his parents in months and I just don't feel up to it. Bleagh, I hate being the wet blanket.

The recipes were tough. I ended up sending a few that I had in handwritten form that were given to me by family and friends. I don't cook by recipe as such.

I love my vast collection of cookbooks and I enjoy reading through so many recipe databases on line. I almost never follow a recipe as written though. I take what sounds good from several and do my own thing.

My friends and family insist that I am a wonderful cook, and I enjoy feeding people I love. The best kitchen creations have resulted from whatever I had on hand at the moment, not a list of ingredients.

{{Robin}}

I'm sorry you are feeling ucky. You really don't want to share your bug with loved ones. You may feel like wet blanket, but it's a better plan to stay home.

Oh that sucks, Robin. I hope you feel better soon.

Mornings should be outlawed.

{{Robin}} I'm sorry you're sick and sorry for the disappointment.

Laura, I was trying to figure out how to put down my lasagna "recipe" last night, but couldn't figure out how to make it useful.... If you've got some of this, it's pretty good, but you might want to add this... same with my basic chowder recipe that becomes any number of soups depending on what's on hand. I'm finding it a bit frustrating.

Hil, thanks for trying. I think it's really cool that you have her recipes, no matter how actually useful it turns out to be.

Went to bed at 10ish, fell asleep at midnightish, woke at 2ish because Nick, who was supposed to be spending the night elsewhere, crawled in a window with some friends, went to bed, and left them sitting on the couch watching a movie, woke again at 3ish for no reason I could discover, couldn't go back to sleep. Am very tired now.