Yay Barb! Celebrate your triumph over the closet!

I'm currently 3 for 3 in sending back an airport bar's idea of a vodka gimlet. Version 2.0 is tasty, though.

Pete, do you love your ghastly Predator head?

Oh yes. It's sat in the living room and every time I catch it out of the corner of my eye it makes me smile.

And she's word-of-mouth sold six copies of Jilli's book, and her mom says the change since she first read it has been like a year of therapy.

JZ' that's so great I wish we could use it as ad copy! Any way you can re-jigger that and add it as a review of the book on Amazon? Either way, thank you for sharing.

Happy Boxing Day!

Today I need to go buy a bulb for my new leg lamp. (It's a major award!)

Fall down go boom now?

Pours cabana boys and chocolate through the interpips for Barb.

ION, we found Andes Creme de Menthe cookies at Walmart in the holiday clearance section. I totally recommend them. In fact, I'm giving serious thought to killing Daniel for his share of the box.

Hi there, SLBFNRLBF!

Today I need to go buy a bulb for my new leg lamp. (It's a major award!)

Please tell me it's got fishnet stockings on it. And the lampshade has a lot of fringe?

Also, we paid a guy to plow our driveway today. He only charged $10 extra to tow Daniel's car out so he could get the job done. I'll be 40 next month; I'm sick of shoveling snow; and, I have neglected to provide myself with teenagers.

I'm not dead yet. I gave her the last two (of 6) I had.

That era was big on "digestibility"

like Crisco "It's Digestible!"

That era was big on digestibility"

And yet the benefits of fiber were not unknown. In "Murder Must Advertise" Sayers managed to slip in a snarky on comment on how modern commerce extracts the fiber from flour to make white bread and then sell that same bran at a high markup as a nutritional supplement. Can't remember offhand whether one of the characters said it or whether it was a comment in "author omniscient" narrative.

Nearly stayed at my mother's another night, as am achy and tired, but we're flying out to Israel on Monday evening and there are things to do, so we drove home. Sleeeeeep now. Overall, a really lovely Christmas - fantastic to see family, not least my adorable 2-year-old niece (who spent the day walking around with a very small doll poking out of her shirt and announcing that this was Baby Jesus who was going to come out of her tummy in April. Taking after her aunt in the normality stakes, then).

like Crisco "It's Digestible!"

And ingredient in one of the more revolting inventions of the "scientific" cooking movement - the Crisco-based "white sauce." Make a roux with Crisco and flour, add milk. No salt, no other seasonings.

(And really, what more proof do we need that the women who pioneered the scientific cooking movement would have been better off in REAL engineering or chemistry courses than shunted into "domestic science"?)