I made a new slow cooker recipe (ganked, ashamedly, from Sandra Lee, and then I tweaked it.) It's chicken and noodles, basically, and I made wheat rolls (frozen) with it, and it turned out SO WELL, and was fairly easy.

I'll do the recipe later, if anyone wants it, but I am checking site while eating and then I have to get back to grading.

HKF asked for some of the zucchini frittata I'd made in the middle of dinner. So after picking myself up off the floor, I changed out her plate, and she ate what we ate, without the traditional fight, for two nights in a row. I'm amazed.

Between the 91-year-old and the nearly-3-year-old, there was not much actual conversation....

Heh, I've had that lunch.

Tonight's dinner was reheated lentil soup, with a last-minute addition of rice (and extra chicken stock) after I realized we had no bread to sop it up with. It wound up thicker than I'd planned, and was seriously delicious.

I had split pea soup for dinner. Very tasty, but I'm still hungry.

This is random, but I just folded all of my socks for the first time in literally years. It's kind of exciting! And discovered a pair of tights hiding, so now I don't feel that bad about not doing laundry today. Effing laundry!

It's kind of exciting!

::crosses Jesse off list of people to invite to Pampalona::

Effing laundry! Go you with the socks. I have unfolded socks right now and it's...it's...not so great. ::shame::

Seriously, I gave up folding socks on purpose years ago. I'm not sure what came over me today.

I'm also sometimes surprised at how satisfying a proper portion of something can be.

This has been the surprise of the food log for me. Knowing the calorie count of a portion makes it more satisfying in odd, knowledge is power, sort of way.

I've gotten to the end of my calorie allotment in an evening and actually felt full...just because I know I've had all I need.

Today was a 'cheat' day, so a lot more calories than usual. What's cool is that I'm supposed to have one day a week where I relax, but this is the first one I've actually done in a month. On the other days, I got to the end of my allotment and just didn't want anything else. So, yay!

bonny, thanks for the acknowledgment.

Would they have been happy to use the term as a title for a doucmentary they were involved in if it was an offensive term?

Asian actors, and Native actors, and many others, participated in projects that they considered offensive. You take work where you can find it when you're a minority working in a field that discriminates by nature. The mere existence of such a program does not ameliorate the use of the term everywhere. Probably some people aren't offended by it. I am. I'm not really interested in arguing the nuances of offense, so I am disinclined to take this much further.

Anyway, like I said, thanks ita for bringing it up, and thanks bonny for responding gracefully when called on it. This is why I love us.