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.

Or are soldiers supposed to be celibate?

Yeah, I'll believe that as soon as I see the guys getting court martialed in equal numbers. Which I highly highly doubt is going to happen.

I haven't read that article, but soldiers aren't allowed to have sex while deployed. Generally, but I assume specifically in this case.

And this may have changed but at least a few years ago, this rule also applied to married couples deployed in the same location.