My toenails are a mess, but I never do anything to them. I love manicures, and TCG gave me a GC for our dateiversary, so I should make an appointment soon.

Great pictures!

I was at Trader Joe's yesterday and bought a "guacamole kit." It's a plastic produce container with two avocados, two tomatoes, an onion, a lime, a jalapeno pepper, and a clove of garlic. I wasn't really planning on making guacamole, but I'm making burritos for lunch tomorrow, and it was just $2.70. I'm still just looking at it and thinking, "Huh. That's pretty cool." (Some of them had either avocados or tomatoes that didn't look too good. The one I picked out had good avocados and OK tomatoes -- I figured, for guacamole, that's better than the other way around.)

People have been bugging me lately about when we're getting married. We're not even engaged yet.

Rolls. Eyes. Forever. People! What part of "none of your DAMN business" do you not understand?

Oatmeal is of the yum, I just had some this morning. We use the regular steel cut oats, but par cook them the night before, so it's a quick finish up in the morning.

I always astound my doctors by having great cholesterol and BP, because, in their mind, I think, Fat=Totally Unhealthy. So when those indicators don't match up, they're all stuttery and shit.

Not to say that there aren't other health issues at stake- I'm currently wrangling with back/knee/foot/joint pain issues.

I'm not meaning to sound all braggy or anything, but seriously, everytime my BP reading is taken on any visit, whatever doctor or nurse that's seeing me ALWAYS sounds SO surprised.

Rolls. Eyes. Forever. People! What part of "none of your DAMN business" do you not understand?

I need to learn to say this to people. Especially when it is someone like my eye doctor.

Is there less of a health benefit from instant oatmeal? I'm just curious because I am lazy.

everytime my BP reading is taken on any visit, whatever doctor or nurse that's seeing me ALWAYS sounds SO surprised.

Same here. Genetics = odd.

I need to learn to say this to people. Especially when it is someone like my eye doctor.

But not when it is someone like, I dunno... me? I can still ask, right? Just not in front of other people. Or TCG. Right? I don't want to miss out on any news!!

Is there less of a health benefit from instant oatmeal? I'm just curious because I am lazy.

Good question, sj. I had an oatmeal cookie for breakfast. It was billed as a "Daybreak Bar" at Starbucks which makes one thing it's supposed to be healty, so I bought it to try. A little dry (they advertised moist!), but chock full of dried fruit and nuts.

Lovely pictures of the Buffista sprogs and their parents! My god, could you guys make prettier babies? I don't think so.

People have been bugging me lately about when we're getting married. We're not even engaged yet.

Rolls. Eyes. Forever. People! What part of "none of your DAMN business" do you not understand?

Daniel and I get this all the time, too. Mostly my response has been, "That's under negotiation." But I'm getting really tempted to start saying, "We push the date back a year every time someone asks." It doesn't help that one of the group homes I work at is populated by a couple of women in their sixties who keep assuming that Daniel is my husband, and refer to him as such. I've gotten tired of correcting them.

It was really cute, though, to find Daniel's mom cheering for the present from me to be the seventh opened at Daniel's niece's baby shower (and thus indicate that I would be the next one to get pregnant, a tradition I'd never heard of before). Alas, they didn't find my package until almost the very end.

But not when it is someone like, I dunno... me? I can still ask, right? Just not in front of other people. Or TCG. Right? I don't want to miss out on any news!!

Of course not! My friends are allowed to ask anything they want, anytime they want. Family and acquaintances need to back off. Plus, you're not implying that it is awful that we're not married or that there is something wrong with that fact, just asking.

everytime my BP reading is taken on any visit, whatever doctor or nurse that's seeing me ALWAYS sounds SO surprised.

Well, they are just so caught up in their preconceived notions about what heart disease should look like, that it's very sad. And it's not like a person has to have high blood pressure to have stuff wrong with the old ticker.

ETA: Way too early in the morning for me to hold rational discourse. Now I'm worried that that what I said implies something about Nora's old ticker.... when that's not how I meant it.

I need a nap. Why are there so many staff meetings on my days off?

Of course not!

Phew. Especially considering I asked you something along those lines just recently (over the weekend?).

I came in early to get a few major time-suck reports out of the way and the damn office data universe isn't working. I've been here since 6am and I am finally off the phone with the (not so helpful) help desk. Today really isn't playing nice. Can we FF? Or maybe rewind?