I get President's Day off, mostly as compensation for the fact that we're a British company and yet (the US employees) don't get any of the UK bank holidays.

Schoolhouse Rock! Rock!

Happy 4th again.

errands were not so fun. mac decided being a pill was the appropriate thing to do anytime things did not go his way: not the toy he wanted at lunch, not getting a video game RIGHT THEN (shocker since I have never said he would get one), going grocery shopping (even though I told him at least 4 times), taking too long in the grocery store.

then we watched Superman 2. I want to go to Niagra Falls.

then I left him in front of PBS and I cooked like a mofo: blueberry scones, greens with onions and bacon, gazpacho, jello, and peach ice cream

Still cracking up at mac talking back to the tv show.

I've been to Niagra Falls, but I don't remember much. But I'd been without sleep the night before, so.

Trip to Ellicott City tomorrow. I was just there last week! Except this one is for a haircut. Probably one of the last, if not the last, I'll get from my stylist before she gives birth. Then I've got to see whoever she assigns until the new year. Ack!

I was just going to call the brother, but I realized.... he's probably grilling and preparing to attempt to burn down the 'hood with pyrotechnics! And this year dad gets to see it (mom was also there last year.) I'll bet he adds to the crazy.

I'm making ice cream pie. Chocolate crust, homemade chocolate sauce coating the bottom. Fresh raspberries pressed into the chocolate. Vanilla ice cream filling. Decorated with drizzled chocolate sauce and more raspberries.

My diet just screamed for mercy.

Oh my god, that sounds delicious Allyson. My mouth is watering.

sara - it gets more hilarious - there is a Mexico tourism commercial out now playing during the Olympic trials and when mac sees the person dive off a cliff into the ocean he says "OK! THAT does not look safe."

Eh. From what I remember when this first hit the media, it seemed like their publicity seeking was coming more from an activist stance after all the shit they went through with the medical community. That makes it kind of a different thing to me than plain old "this is my shot to be in People Magazine!"

I found a lot of his righteous indignation eye-rolly. You had a hard time finding a doctor who'd want to help you get pregnant after taking upmpteen years of of male hormones? Really? And the staff in the gynecologist's office kept using female pronouns? In a GYNECOLOGISTS office? Where they only ever treat women? Where the forms are all pre-printed with "she" and "her"? PERISH THE THOUGHT. And as far as the neighbors knowing and you not wanting to be ashamed -- um, men get pot bellies. No one would have thought "gee, I wonder if he's pregnant!"

Now, the doctors may have been unkind in turning him down. And the staffs may have said "she" with a sneer instead of out of mere habit. I do not know. But the original article struck me as whiny and publicity-seeking and then going on Oprah, etc. seemed only to reinforce my first impression.

Oh, that ice cream pie sounds wonderful!

I just made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The cake's not as tasty as I'd like (maybe it's one of those things that has to sit for a while?), but there's no bad to cream cheese frosting.