No you don't. You people suck, talking about baking at 10 o'clock at night because I just had to go into the kitchen to make banana bread. (Well, what I actually ended up making was pumpkin gingerbread muffins with rum-soaked raisins, because my intent and my result never survive the threshold of the kitchen. But the late-night baking is still your fault.)

eat it! eat it now while it's hot! /late-night binging devil

Or localistas who want lemons??

::bats eyelashes::

megan, are you going to make lemon curd for me?

::bats eyelashes::

We're back from Reno. We hoped to beat the storm to the summit of the Donner Pass (yeah, that one). NSM.

Total white knuckle drive punctuated by cars spun out facing the wrong way and trucks face first in ditches and big rigs stopped in the middle of 80 to add chains. Like that.

We actually slid off the road at one point, but we were going about 5 mph, and we had a wide bank (there were places where it was Precipitous Drop) and JZ gently coaxed our car back to the roadway. Eeek.

So. The mountains took about two hours to traverse 10 miles. Then a swift 30 mph on the downgrade and eventually below the snowline to get out of the horizontally blowing blizzard and into a welcome driving rain.

Then we stopped in Sacramento and saw my friends Alex and Kris - who were both home from the hospital after their successful kidney transplant surgery! (Kris = donor, Alex = recipient)

Kris was already pretty bouncy though tired. Alex was very weak and sore but he'd been in bad shape for a year. But apparently all his numbers were instantly better and he wasn't looking as yellow as a Simpsons family member anymore.

Matilda was Not A Trooper during the longish drive. We were accomodating as could be, but after we got home and endured yet another whine/pout fest I dumped her into a timeout and now she's PJed and tolerable.

megan, are you going to make lemon curd for me?

Well, I really do need a haircut.

Okay, Jon Stewart freaking out about the Democrats just made me spit milk all over my monitor.

Is he new tonight?

Matilda was Not A Trooper during the longish drive.

But you didn't have to kill and eat her, right? Sounds like an overall win to me....

He is. He was talking about the special election in MA. Maybe it was so funny because I've had to endure all those election ads on the Boston channels I get.

And mac reached over and grabbed my hand. That was worth the $20.

Made me teary.

Julie, I'm glad Spike the Snake is back, and not frozen anymore. I like snakes.

Banana bread. I love banana bread. ION, I'd like to report that mango mojitos are a very good idea.

Today it got up to 60 degrees. It was heavenly.