Oh, Nora! How fun! I need more Lush goodies. I used my last bath bomb the other night.

Happy Birthday Suzi!

Yay for found doggies!

back to work

Oooh, drool-worthy. LA Weekly rates the top 20 Italian restaurants in Los Angeles in scrupulous and scrumptious detail

Angelo Auriano’s food at Valentino is as far from home cooking as any French chef’s: complicated little packets of handkerchief pasta folded around ragouts of braised capon, veal and quail; a delicate risotto, perfectly all’onda, stirred with crunchy minced apple and a pair of tiny veal kidneys; dime-size Mediterranean octopuses in a chile-tinged broth that resonates against the acidity of cold Ligurian wine

or...

Il Moro, which recently transformed itself from a better-than-average office-building restaurant to a center of Bolognese cuisine, may be the only place in Los Angeles where you can taste the cooking of the region — the tiny, meat-stuffed cappelletti floating in a deep-yellow capon broth, the baked lasagna enriched with a wheelbarrowful of bechamel, the house-made pasta, alive under the teeth, buried under an ultradense sauce fashioned from tomatoes and minced pigeon.

Happy birthday, Suzi!

"people have custody battles over dogs when they divorce, and we don't want to get sued if this is a dognapping"

So many women don't change their last name back that it's not much of a prevention.

Hey, I've been to one of those Italian restaurants. Pretty much because it was near krav, so no one would need directions. Very tasty, and great gimlet. Il Moro, whose review Hec quoted above.

the baked lasagna enriched with a wheelbarrowful of bechamel, the house-made pasta, alive under the teeth, buried under an ultradense sauce fashioned from tomatoes and minced pigeon.

I was having a lovely gourmasm until I got to "pigeon". I'm sure they're farm-raised and food-quality and all that, but to me, a pigeon is the beady-eyed air rat that is watching you eat that pretzel and calculating how to get it away from you while it poops on your head.

I was having a lovely gourmasm until I got to "pigeon".

We can call it "squab" if you prefer.

We can call it "squab" if you prefer.

Or Speckled Jim.

Il Moro is of the yum. Only been there once, but it was very memorable.

Just back from the doc and it was as I suspected. Operation time. What follows is medical stuff:

There are three fibroids and the biggest one is growing toward my back, so it managed to elude detection until now. This explains the daily backaches. Unfortunately, it is big enough that having a cool laparascopic hysterectomy with its quick recovery time is not viable. I have to have a regular abdominal one, and he told me that means I have to spend three days in the hospital and take 4-6 weeks off work. 6 weeks? Really? That seems long.

As soon as they get authorization from my insurance we'll schedule the surgery. Good thing is that it is going to be at St. Joseph's, which is a very good hospital that is only 3/4 of a mile from my house. We walk the dog over there all the time. Nice that it's so close.

Health~ma, Robin.

Oh, Robin. I'm sorry. {{{Robin}}}