In continued recovery news, I have on outside clothes and we are headed over to a friends place. No driving for me though.

You know how we always warn each other not to read the comments? well, if you can't resist, here's a short-cut - comments to any PETA article. More or less.

It's missing both "Veganism cured my cancer!" and "Those sanctimonious vegans can't tell ME what to eat! It's all part of Michelle Obama's plot to control our lives! Big Brother!"

So you're saying it's a blank page?

Oh, you're right. "Hitler was vegetarian! Why do you want to be like Hitler?" (Pedantic note: Hitler was not vegetarian.)

And the Isaac Bashevis Singer quote thing is another one of those arguments that really annoys me. The quote, as far as I can remember it, is "To the animals, we are all Nazis. For them, it is an eternal Treblinka." And people will always pull that quote out whenever someone objects to comparing factory farming to the Holocaust, as a "See? Old Jewish guy said it, so it's OK!" thing. But the thing is, that quote is from a short story, from a character in the midst of a mental breakdown. Isaac Bashevis Singer was a vegetarian, and he did write a whole lot of stuff about how we should care about animals, but I've searched and never found him comparing farmed animals to Holocaust victims anywhere other than in that one story.

OMG YOU GUYS I JUST FINISHED THE PROJECT FROM HELL

I need a drink

passes lovely to look at and very potent cocktail to Lee

man, Swifty had another full on seizure today after having no signs of seizuring for weeks. I'm waiting for my vet to call back to see if we should do anything (aside from give him valium which we did). Cats!

"Those sanctimonious vegans can't tell ME what to eat! It's all part of Michelle Obama's plot to control our lives! Big Brother!"

I just saw this one! In a comment section on Alice Waters. So ranty pants. Wait, I have to go and quote it, because it was so genius in its stupidity.

If its personal choice then that is ok. If it ever gets political and Government forces you to eat a certain way then that is Tyranny! I believe in personnal freedom and our constitution. We need to keep government and laws out of our business! Vote all Statists out of office! We need conservatives!

Aw, Swifty. I hope he's okay, lisah.

Yay, Lee!

Dude, I totally got my domestic goddess on today. I baked the rest of the hamantaschen this morning, cleaned the stove, made dinner (meatloaf!), and have the melted chocolate cooling for the brownie cookies I'm making after dinner. AND I went to Sara's concert, which was not as painful as I expected (also only third grade -- the K-3 thing must have been a typo, and I was pretty sure kindergarteners weren't playing the cello).

A glass of wine might be called for.

A glass of wine might be called for.

Excellent plan. Long day, long week. I have a quiet house and am watching General Hospital. Wine is what the scene needs.

Also, clink

Yea Lee.

What I could never figure out was maternity Spanx. I have never used brand-name spanx, but I have other foundation garments. I do hate control top tights. I find they always manage to squeeze my bladder and make it continually feel like I have to pee.