We have a vague date set to go to the Charcoal Pit at some point.

CHARCOAL PIT!!!

Susan - hands are tough. Lots of portraitists didn't bother, you know? Or screwed the pooch and went w/o.

well, on Sunday, I'm leaving for my parents' house in New Mexico with Ellie. We will be there until 2-3 weeks after the baby is born. Then in mid-March, I"ll be spending 4 days in Chicago and 3 weeks in Minnesota and then it's back to New Mexico in mid-May until the end of June.

(And I'm totally planning on writing about it. I just haven't had anything brilliant to say about my travels so far that hasn't been better covered by others.)

I'm leaving for my parents' house in New Mexico with Ellie.

ok, so driving on 95 yesterday didn't kill my brain...

And I'm totally planning on writing about it.

awesome!

Glad you class went well, Aimee! Sounds awesome!

I do not know how vw's tea is made, and now I know I don't want to know.

Meanwhile, Day 2 of Atkins Induction is wending to its close. And I have to say that, whether or not I lose any weight, damn it's nice to be eating my own cooking again. I do like cooking, but since it's just me I can't often be bothered, and have fallen into the habit of having pasta or getting food delivered all too often, if I don't eat out. But lo! Today I have made:

• eggs scrambled with garlic cream cheese, topped with smoked salmon.

• tuna salad

• home made cream of mushroom soup with a handful of mozarella and a healthy sprinkling of black pepper and fresh coriander, followed by roasted red pepper stuffed with chili/pepper/lemon-seasoned slices of steak and a garlic creamcheese/sour cream combo, served with mixed leaves and chopped asparagus.

Mmmmmm!

God, I love mushrooms! There were 2 kinds in the soup, but I have a 3rd kind in the fridge lest the leftovers need padding out tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I seem to have signed up for Sweet Charity. Which is insanity, really, because I'm so out of the fandom loop that no bugger is going to bid on me. And yet I seem to have signed up to write fic/read podfic/send an exciting mystery package of shiny things from Bangkok.

It seems highly unlikely that I will be called upon to do any of the above, but one never knows.

Fay, I'd read anything you wrote, any fandom. Bonus points, though, if it's a PotC/Endless crossover.

Sail!

Hey, Ginger!

::gives squishy hug::

::hugs back::

One of the greatest shocks to my system when I first moved in with my ex was that he talked to me in the morning.

I had a tearful, dramatic conversation with an exroomate about how she didn't know what she did, and she just wanted us to be good roommates and if I could just tell her what she done to upset me, she'd work on it, how she was so confused because I ran hot and cold. I looked at her like she was insane. Finally figured out that she was referring to mornings. I said "oh honey, I wasn't mad at you, I was mad at the world because I was awake. Just don't try to be cheerful in the morning and we'll be fine. When I grunt, that's hello, how are you"