Okay, the tempura rocked. Except I forgot to make the rice (how non-Japanese of me!) which would have really helped with the not feeling all fried foods full. But yum.

I took a nap today, even without a new mattress. It really helped, though, since it looks like we may be in for another long night. Poor sweet SO trying not to complain.

Anyway, thank dog for long weekends, because I really need to whip the house and office into shape, and tomorrow will be just the day to do it! But I finished up a bunch of big deadlines this week, and taking back over the household chores that the SO had been covering for me while I was buried makes me finally feel competent again.

Ah, competence. How I've missed thee.

eta: Huh. I hope my Tivo caught it. I'm on tv hiatus myself right now, 'cause the SO's sickroom is the room with the tv. I've been catching up on Torchwood though. Although right now I'm not really liking it.

I know nothing about Catholic weddings - but since I tend to yell "Vegas!" everytime some one gets stressed about weddings, perhaps I am not the one to listen to. ( getting married in Vegas gives you great stories)

Happily, no one I know makes there child hug people.

ION, I am very hungry. Uke building is happening in my garage. Is it rude to offer someone leftover pizza from last night's dinner. It feels like it would be rude, but that was the plan for dinner tonight. Maybe Matt and T can go find dinner elsewhere. I am hungry and indesisive. I really don't want to get to the biteing people's heads off stage.

There was a golf match this afternoon that ran long. People on the west coast might not be affected.

They're writers in LA, so they may well have other things they're working on, but I think the site is a pretty significant source of income.

Huh -- interesting.

Well, TAR has started 26 minutes late. I don't know why.

Ooh, thanks for the warning! Who knew golf ran late? I thought with the end of football, TAR would air as scheduled.

One non-spoilery thing about TAR: I don't think Uchenna and Joyce should be doing this race, since they already won $1 million back in TAR7. Also, Romber shouldn't be raising simply because they annoy the hell out of me, and this is their fourth go-around on reality TV, so they've annoyed me for quite some time.

Am I crazy to have a Catholic wedding ceremony when I am not, in fact, Catholic? I don't care so much about the ceremony mass and jazz, but all the pre-wedding counseling and stuff-- are there any non-catholics who have gone through it and can advise? Is anyone familiar with doing it with a foreign parish?

My Minion went through this a while back, bon. They spent a great deal of time finding a parish that would a) consent to marry them in the first place and b) not require him to do and say things that he couldn't reconcile himself with. It took a lot of stress to find, but once they found a priest/parish who they felt would treat him with respect, I recall it went okay.

Ah. I was all, "football is over! Why is this happening?"

I put the leftover pizza in the oven - they guys can figure out what they want to do whenever

Hmm. I don't find the "Go hug Auntie Mary" thing even slightly weird or uncomfortable. Not in the exhortation, nor in the "Auntie" since that was the simplest way to keep us from having to call people by their surnames.

I had forgotten TAR even started tonight, so I'm glad it ran late for you guys, so that I can now record it.

Lee, if you don't break in your mattress properly by taking a nap, it'll never really work right. And you don't want that, do you?

I really wouldn't. Luckily, that is no longer a problem since my reading in bed plan worked exactly didn't go the way I thought it would.

Also, I don't have to work tomorrow. YAY.