I think quince will always be renaissance in my head.

We also have two cherimoya trees but they don't have any fruit. My yard is weird.

Apparently, fig newtons are best made with dry figs. So if I want to make fig newtons (my original plan) then I'll have to dry the figs first. Blargh.

Bummer no fruit, cherimoya are yummy.

I think they have fruit in winter and spring. We have a ton of flowers on the tree.

I know when I lived in a house that had a fig tree I made tons of some kind of fig based cookie. They were not very newton-like, but tasty. Possibly a recipe from californiafigs.com

My favorite is figs hot off the tree, just split 'em with my thumbs and eat. Yum. No way we could go through all the figs that way, though

I have ripe figs on the tree in my yard. Fig ideas, anyone?

Split them, stuff them with goat cheese and wrap them in prosciutto. Stick them under the broiler (or on the grill) just long enough the crisp up the prosciutto.

Someone bring me a plate of those right now, please?

If you come to Connecticut, I can have them hot when you get here.

Has anyone else seen the new lolcat/meme thing where they say "ermagerd"?

I hate it with the fire of 1,000 suns. More. ALL THE SUNS.

So of course my friends post pictures with it to my FB wall just to drive me batshit insane. Bunch of scapegraces, they are.

Went to a damn good baseball game tonight (who wants to be hit with a 100-mph pitch? not me! [neither did the batter]) that, randomly, Charlie and Martin Sheen were at. The crowd-cam kept them up on the Jumbotron for longer than normal, until the crowd realized that's really who it was. V. strange for Cincinnati.

bon! Jealous of your broken arm iPad! Sorry about the pain! IRONY.

ita ! you take ambien, probably 10 mgs a night, right? How much sleep do you get? Do you get a 30 day supply and take one each night?

This is a NORMAL dose; are you having problems staying asleep or falling asleep with the mgs. you take?

If not, yeah people build up a tolerance. Have you? It takes years, and you can probably supplement them with Xanax at night. You need a better sleep doctor on MY NOT A DOCTORB advice.

But I have been dealing with insomnia and Ambien and dosages and supplements for years, and there's not enough long-term research yet on it's tolerance-building. And I'll stop blabbing, but if you have questions, I have educated myself pretty damn well about it.

Watch out, bon bon! An iPad is exciting, but not worth hurting yourself over!

In my-exciting-life news, I have figured out pilling the cat! This is exciting. Maybe it's because he's so easy-going, but all of the advice about kneeling in a corner or whatever never worked for me, but just doing it on my lap does. For the past 24 hours, at least.

I have NOT figured out what to do with my corner bookshelf, since there are no corners in this apartment. I mean, obviously there are corners, but they all have doors or windows or my bed in them. I'm half-considering moving everything in my bedroom around, but not sure that would even help. Must measure.

Crap, I really think the bed would be better in the other corner. Can I seriously move it by myself? Unclear. Should I call and beg my parents for more help? Maybe. Hmmmm.