Polgara, incoming.

I had to get blood drawn today, and I was so difficult they sent me to the main lab to a specifically identified guy who hit a geyser first try, no pain. Still, unless he's going to be at the Santa Monica hospital Thursday morning I'm pessimistic about how long it's going to take them to get a line for my Versed for my procedure. Not to mention my pessimism that they'll give me enough Versed to blunt the pain. I hate to sound junkie-like, but I guess I should remind them it took 4mg, not the initial 2, last time, and by then all I missed was the ride from the procedure room.

Speaking all of which, I hope msbelle's doing well, and cutiehead Mac is calm as calm can be.

I had a ginormous salad at lunch and still feel rather full.

I suspect that dinner will actually be dessert since I have caramelized pear and toasted pecan Haagen Dazs in the freezer.

I had a pretty good turkey meatloaf for lunch (with peas and mashed potatoes that had the skin in it--my second fave version of mashed [fave has garlic in it, too]). The cafeteria here does a decent job with their "carvery" Mondays, and the price isn't too bad ($4.99 for the above). Dinner will probably be spaghetti.

I think we are having Elk steak.

JEALOUS. Om nom nom nom.

ita, I hope they listen to you on Thursday.

I hope msbelle's doing well, and cutiehead Mac is calm as calm can be.

Me, too. Poor noodles, both of them.

~ma to everyone else who needed it, too. I have lost track in the skipping and the skimming.

I'm making tacos for dinner tonight.

Man, now I want tacos for dinner. I think we are having Elk steak

Sounds like an opportunity for Elk tacos.

I have some venison in the freezer I should really thaw.

I made tacos with veggie burgers last night - stuck half a Morningstar southwestern black bean burger in each shell and added cheese and salsa. It was actually pretty delish, for three minutes prep and no dishes.

Where are you, Theodosia? I know there's a TJ's near the King of Prussia Mall. I need to hit it up next time I'm at my parents'.

Ooh, that's the TJ's I used to visit. They opened one closer in on the Main Line not long before I came home.

I found out recently that King of Prussia is named after an inn that used to be there. I like it when things have a reasonable explanation.

I'd often wondered about that! Like, I figured it'd go back to the Revolution, especially with the proximity to Valley Forge, but why not just name it after the actual king? Did they not know his name? Or did they think by calling it that they made it the actual king of Prussia? I like to imagine occasional decrees back to Germany, maybe something along the lines of "build me an army worthy of Mordor".

Discovering it was named for an inn - well, makes this more likely, really.

But now an Australian palaeontologist has established that the two koalas lived side by side – a finding that may throw new light on why the megafauna disappeared.

Clearly they were taken down by tiny stealth ninja koalas. (Koalas, like all marsupials, are mammals.)

ita, did you get your car up and running?

So we showed up to the 1:00 PM taping of Price is Right at 10:00, as that's when they start to do all the crap. But we told all the numbers were gone and we'd have to come back another day.

Mom was pissed. Last time she tried to go they canceled the taping. She promises not to try again.

Is it wrong that I am relieved?

Is it wrong that I am relieved?

Hell, no. Sorry your mom is disappointed, though.

I don't trust koalas of any size.

DH is going to be so happy. Pardon the Interruption is back on after a long holiday hiatus. His man crush on Tony Kornheiser knows no bounds.