Am trying to figure out what to wear as a top tomorrow: I'm going to a murder mystery party set in Vegas, where my character is a call girl named "Ivanna Fook." Ahem. So I figure fun sexy wig, stilettos, stockings, garter belt, tight black miniskirt...but am unsure on the top. Have to ransack my closet, I suspect. And make cupcakes. And I'm going to a dance class tomorrow afternoon right before the party. Ay!

I vote corset.

oops, double post.

Okay, so this morning/afternoon, I have (with my dad), put together the Ikea table (I felt gratified that he couldnt make the batteries on the drill work either), cleaned the bathroom, moved a bunch of crap out of the house into the trash or the storage room. On the cooking front, I have made pie crust, started macerating limes for tomorrow's lime tart, made batter for potato blinis, made horseradish cream.

Still to do today: go to grocery store, make and roll out pasta dough, roast veggies, make bechamel sauce, assemble lasagna, clean bedroom, sweep and mop floors, set table.

to do tomorrow: make tarts,

I am doing all of this because Im having my family over to the house for Mother's Day Brunch, pray for me.

Mmm, I want brunch at Vortex's!! Did you go back to Ikea and get the right table??

meara, you have raised flirting to an art form. Your parties always sound like performance pieces, they must be so much fun.

Hee. Thank you! And I"m definitely looking forward to tonight's party, which WILL be a performance piece, since it's a murder mystery thing where we're all playing characters! It's BYOB--what kind of alcohol does a call girl bring to a party? Champagne?

And next week is the big drag king show in Portland I'm going to--that ought to be awesome as well!

Y'all make me feel awesome, btw. And I thank you for that. I was having a discussion with my friend J the other day, and he made a metaphoric leap I loved--said that my time here in Seattle has been like freshman year. Or more, like a transfer student--I'm making lots of friends, and they may not be the friends I end up with, but even though I was a big fish in "high school" (DC), I'm not here (yet), etc etc....it was awesome.

Scrappy is going to be dog owner friends with CHEKHOV? That is SO COOL.

They both were all like, "Well, we were playing zombies," as if that explained it all

At least he didn't try to eat her brains?

[edit: good lord. on re-reading, how many times did I use the word "awesome" in one post?? I think I may have had too much coffee this morning...]

Mmm, I want brunch at Vortex's!! Did you go back to Ikea and get the right table??

dad did, actually. He had to drive somewhere for work, so he picked up a new one on his way home, dropped it off with me and picked up the old one, then returned the old one on his way somewhere else. I was happy to put it together myself, but then the drill crapped out!

Dang it, my plan to lie around and recover from the ick has been derailed from my aggravation with my dirty house. I don't know what it is- I hate being sick in a messy house.

Sigh. White fonted for the weak of stomach.

I just threw up. In ND's truck. We have cleaned it all up, but I am embarassed and disgusted and feel like crap. I'm hoping that this was just a bad reaction to the antibiotic I took shortly before, because the Universe just wouldn't give me a stomach bug when I'm still recovering from pneumonia, right? Because I don't think I can take that, I just don't. ND is by far the WBB today, though. Not only did he not get mad as I tearfully apologized for getting sick in his truck, he did the bulk of the clean up himself.

Please send me health~ma. If I have a stomach virus, I just don't know what I'm going to do.I just...I was just starting to feel a little better, you know? I don't want to be this gross, sick person anymore.

I didn't mean to kill the thread with my grossness.

{{Kristin}} Poor lamb. Also {{Nora}}. Feel better.

Scrappy and Chekhov and their poodles make me smile.

I have one pile left on my desk - the pile of things that I wish t opostpone deciding how to handle. Therefore, taking a break. Maybe turning on the swamp cooler. With any luck I will get some more energy so I can tidy up the part of the house that guests would be likely to see since I may have people stopping by this evening.

health~ma, Kristin.

I've been reorganizing my bookshelves. I realized that, since I've got all my music on my computer, there's no reason to keep the CDs in a really accessible spot that I could use for stuff that I use more often, so I put the CDs into a box in the corner and filled that space with books and DVDs. Then went through my books and culled the ones I know I'm never going to read again (The Firm, The Runaway Jury, The Lilac Bus, The Well of Lost Plots, and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), and I'm going to bring those to try to sell at the used book store tomorrow. Then I organized my nonfiction books and got all the Victorian novels on one shelf and all the non-series sci-fi on another, and then got tired and kind of threw everything else (modern fiction, series sci-fi, mysteries, fantasy, graphic novels, and romance) back on the shelves wherever. I'll work on that tomorrow, I think.