Tom, I love your apartment! You've done a great job with how you've put it together.

I made waffles for the visiting Emily. Emmett thinks we should have waffles again tomorrow. I have pointed out the labor intensive special event nature of waffles.

They were very tasty though.

We got no plan for the 4th, however. I wish Pirates were already open.

You can buy toaster waffles in any supermarket. If health is a concern you can buy organic whole wheat ones. At 11 years old or so the difference between these and home made may be of no great concern to Emmet.

Ooh, I would love to hear your thoughts on Time-Traveller's Wife

Oh, really? Then maybe I would. I'm sooooo behind in the Lit thread (like, still in the old one), that it may feel a bit like invading a thread, in posting there, but there are just so many thoughts about this book running around in my head.

[Edit: And I loved how there was a chronology in the un-chronological order of things. Um, I'm not sure I'm saying this right. ]

Oh, and I was in fact just talking about you, the other day. I was whining about blind dates and dates in general, with a non-religious friend, and we were laughing about how similar our whinins were, despite the vast difference in our dating experiences. So I told her about you, and how once upon a time we discovered that our dating stories and group dynamics aren't all that different, despite the even larger difference in our dating experiences.

Yay waffles! Even though I don't think I've ever had any, they read like a "yay" food.

I need the aid of the hivemind!!! What do you get the boy, (my nephew) about to turn 10, who has everything? He's into Hockey cards, board games,, wrestling, hockey and I'm not sure what else. He plays little league, but doesn't really follow MLB. Not very big on reading or DVDs. His favourite music is KISS and a lot of those bands like Good Charlotte. He has X-Box and PS2 (though my brother did something to the PS2 to make it play pirated games and now it won't play the legit ones), but he's not allowed to have games rated older than teen.

Oh, no no no Gar. Don't even go there. These are sooper special waffles from the Joy of Cooking with all kinds of arcane Hec-ly procedures and rituals and mysteries layered on top, and if you get him started on toaster waffles vs. his waffles he'll go on for hours. With dramatic gestures, a PowerPoint presentation, detailed slides to show the vast gulf between those waffles and his even at the molecular level, and probably puppetry and interpretive dance.

Please. I beg of you. Let us never speak of it again, or he may never stop speaking of it.

Sue, I was recently talking about iTunes gift certificates as possibly a good present idea for that age. But I dunno.

somewhere hidden there I think I saw a peeking out good-natured @@, but I can't be sure.

Sue, I recommend KISS cards.

For the nephew, a book about hockey or wrestling?

I have made a cow-intensive cake. 2 sticks of butter in the cake, and six eggs. Plus butter for the frosting. The health is supplied by the blueberries and strawberries (of course it is a flag cake). It had better be good.

Later, zucchini bread. The zucchini have begun their deluge.

It is 95 degrees. I am not leaving the house for anything today.

Sue, I recommend KISS cards.

OMG, those are Genius! I'm thinking I might try a few card/comic shops around here, since because I don't think they'd get here in time from Ebay. (And that reminds me I've never registered my new CC with PayPal.)

Sue, I was recently talking about iTunes gift certificates as possibly a good present idea for that age. But I dunno.

I think he's young enough that he would prefer presents still. But in a couple of years, he's getting gift certificates ahoy!