Vortex, how do you get up the energy and excitement to cook for one? I used to get pretty fancy when I cooked for company, but these days I do the minimum possible to not expire from malnutrition.

I envy the flavour of everything you post, but not enough to do dishes.

Just skipping a ton and checking in to look for news about baby Shane. Hoping he and his moms are all adoring each other and enjoying the peace of a just born baby.

Sometimes I think we reset the scale by so many labor & posts. We tend to squeeze them out and then head right back to the fieldsintenets.

JZ sorry about the stabby feelings.

Can anyone tell me if mitzvahs can be banked for later? Because I think I've got a few extra and want to save them up for later.

Vortex, how do you get up the energy and excitement to cook for one?

I don't know. I love to cook, to create new things, and to eat. I'm unsatisfied by a lot of prepared food (mostly because things are too sweet). I'm also a cheapskate, and I hate spending money to buy prepared food when I could have double the amount if I just took a little time to cook it. Plus, if I cook, I usually make enough for two meals, so I end up having something for the freezer or later in the week.

eta: this is not to say that i don't shortcut (i.e. rotisserie chicken is made of awesome). Plus, since I started walking to work, getting takeout or going to the store is almost more effort than cooking)

I wonder if having a microwave would help me. If I cook for more than one meal, I can only reheat it easily at work, and I don't take complex meals into work.

No, that's just a lame excuse. I could take more complex meals into work. I'm just in love with my little lunchbox.

I fell into eating/ordering out when I moved to LA, and it's been a damned hard habit to break--when I'm not doing that, I'm just skating by. It's terrible.

I also got out of the habit of ordering in when I lived in VA because all of the delivery food was terrible, and anything decent took way too long.

{{{{{JZ}}}}} I'm sorry.

My nephew just had his mom post the cutest thank you message on my facebook wall. I am ded from the cuteness of it.

IOmemeN, after going to a gazillion stores, I think I finally have all the odds and ends I need for Christmas so that tomorrow I can stay home and put bows on packages and bake, or collapse into a coma, whichever comes first.

I can't decide how I feel about this:

Soldiers could face court martial for getting pregnant

Of course the sensationalist headline neglects to mention that the man is also subject to court martial for " 'becoming nondeployable for reasons within the control of the soldier,' which include 'becoming pregnant, or impregnating a soldier ... resulting in the redeployment of the pregnant soldier.' "

Does the soldier also get court martialed if they're playing a pickup football game and breaks his leg?

Flippantly, I think this should make the case for gay sex among soldiers...

I am totally cutting the moms slack for not posting right away. They need their Shane bonding time!

Nonsense. He hasn't officially been born until it's posted. (Best birth~ma to GC, DW and Shane.)

court martial for " 'becoming nondeployable for reasons within the control of the soldier,'

Birth control works perfectly, of course.