If you've made the fruitcake properly in the first place, there's no need to freeze it

This is true, and was probably largely an excuse to pour on another bottle of scotch.

I know nothing more than Jamaican fruit cake making, but basting with alcohol is maybe a monthly task up until we "decant".

Shir, thanks for the update. I had to google to find out what naevi were, and it sounds good that you've got a doctor who's keeping a close eye on them. I'm sorry you're having to deal with them, though; having them removed sounds like a painful process. Lots of good thoughts to you, and huge relief that your sister and friends are OK.

:: nods and agrees with Kate P ::

Thanks - it's not a painful process. I get local anesthesia which is sometimes ouchy, but that's about it for the pain in it. It's more planning my entire schedule around another cause of uncertainty - getting half a day or a day off for removal/doctor appointments, bandaging and stitches, etc.. Having my own nurse around - my mother - around me, certainly helps with a lot of it. I get better bandaging from her. When the place on my leg refused to get better (it's still healing, actually), I got an awesome bandage with seaweed and ions (or something like that; all I know is that it helped).

Hi.

I'm ... not doing so well. I'm OK, no emergency or anything, just mentally not great.

I saw something once that said, "Of course your mother knows how to push your buttons. She's the one that installed them." That definitely applies right now.

I went to Trader Joe's to get stuff for dinner. There are about five or six frozen or refrigerated things they have there that I like. None of them were in stock. I'm not really up for cooking, and I know that trying something new is not going to go well tonight, so I got some chips and guacamole for dinner. (And please, no criticism of my dinner choices -- criticism of food choices is what started this whole thing in the first place.)

How could I criticize chips & guac when I'm having chips and pumpkin cream cheese for dinner?

Hil, that sounds like a perfectly acceptable dinner on a night when you're feeling lousy. I'm sorry your mother was pushing your buttons.

I was feeling lousy today. I ended up taking a long nap and having a box of Trader Joe's mac & cheese for lunch. No gym today, maybe tomorrow. TCG is making dinner, which luckily for both of is leftovers that just need to be heated.

Last night my dinner was a coke and corn chex (ETA: plain from the box, not with milk or anything). I think you're fine.

Last night my dinner was a coke and corn chex (ETA: plain from the box, not with milk or anything).

That wasn't the explanation I was looking for. Was the Corn Chex in the Coke?