Wow. Or should I say "Ciao,"

I'd love to think I'd be this cool. Frankly, though, I don't think I'd be cool enough to come up with, "'Allo Sue...I've got legs!"

Also, Sparky, Lisah, Vortex, insent with cell #.

So, the WB tells me that Kevin Federline is guest starring(?) on One Tree Hill. Mommy, I'm scared.

Something NOT to set the VCR for while I'm back east.

OK. I just wasted a good half hour looking up portraits of all the real historical figures who populate my alternate history, just to see if I could tell what their hands looked like. This all started because I wanted to describe one real character's hands for one scene--just a throwaway bit of description to add some visual detail to a dialogue over a chessboard. So I looked up them up, but since he's one of my more obscure real people, there just aren't that many portraits of him, and only one shows his hands, and not that clearly. So instead of being a sensible writer and just inventing a suitable pair of hands, I spent fifteen minutes going deeper and deeper into google trying to find some elusive long-lost hand portrait. And when I finally gave up, I got distracted into looking up everyone else's hands.

My conclusions:

1. This has got to be the strangest way I've ever fooled myself into thinking I'm writing without producing a single sentence.
2. Portrait artists of the early 19th century just weren't that into hands.

Ah...Susan has discovered productive procrastination!

My body is weird. I'm awake, because the power went out. How did my body know? The fan turned off. It didn't get overly hot. I guess I've just gotten really used to the sound.

But, it's back now. Guess it's time to go make some coffee!

Poptarts:

Anyone here have experience with Kombucha tea? My hostess has been really encouraging me to drink a little each day, and I have a couple of times, but I just did some research, and it looks like it has drug interactions (although, I can't find a list of specific drugs), and now I'm nervous. I think I'm going to stop drinking it, but was wondering if anyone here had experience with it.

Never heard of the tea but

Stephanie, did the dogs make it to their destination?

My mom called me around 10 last night (i.e. long after I went to bed) to say that they picked up the dogs and they were just fine. I don't remember much else, though.

I love Kombucha. But then I found out how it was made and got grossed out. But then I decided it was too delicious for me to care about the whole mould thing.

My mom called me around 10 last night (i.e. long after I went to bed) to say that they picked up the dogs and they were just fine. I don't remember much else, though.

Oh, good! That's a long day for those guys! I'm glad they made it there safe and sound.

I was just writing something in my LJ, though, about how nice it was that you guys go to bed early. I didn't feel guilty going to be early myself then. It's kind of funny.

But then I found out how it was made and got grossed out.

I saw the culture last night, and really, I don't think it's any grosser than making bread... I'm just unsure about the actual tea...

about how nice it was that you guys go to bed early

One nice thing with that is that Joe and I had a long conversation this morning at 4am about this year's taxes, the work done on our air conditioner, how to rearrange the bed once the baby comes, and other mundane stuff.

One nice thing with that is ... had a long conversation this morning at 4am

I know this is buffista conversation number #37, but it's so nice to be awake when the house is quiet and feel ready for the day.