I think the mother of the biter will probably appreciate some wine too. I imagine it is a conversation NEITHER of you want to have!

House vacuumed and mopped. Tables are still a cluttered disaster, but the cat hair is conquered, until Loki and Pumpkin have another wrassle. Which should be in the next 30 minutes.

I wish I could figure out my shit swim times. Before Spain, "shit" was averages breaking 58s. Since then? I'm happy to have it in the 58 range, and shit is now 60, and I haven't broken below 57 but once. That used to be consistent, 56/57 pace averages. Part of it is I am fucking up my turns, but it's more than that. I dropped almost 10 lbs in Spain (all that walking I guess, cause I ate like a horse) and have kept it off. I really wonder if some of it is that, and how exactly THAT works.

Momentum?

We went and saw Bailey in person today. She's adorable and really shy. A big licker.

Still will be a few days before they let us know about our applications though.

ION, a mom from the soccer team that I am friendly with asked me where the two candidates for president staid on the issue of abortion. LIKE SHE ACTUALLY HAD NO IDEA!! FOR REALZ. At her church, from the pulpit, they were saying candidate A is pre-life and candidate B isn't. We all need to support candidate A because abortion is wrong. THE FUCK?!?!

At her church, they are bucking to lose their tax exemption.

I wonder how long it will be before a church brings about a Citizen's United lawsuit to abridge the separation of church and state at least as it pertains to political speech from a pulpit.

In other news, I bashed my eye and forehead into the corner of a wall. WTF? I think it's a sign that I need to go to sleep earlier.

I made tortellini soup with kale. holey yum. I love soup. It was wet and rainy here but no soccer cancellations.

I stopped watching the series premiere of Emily Owens MD 20 minutes in because I figured I didn't need another awkward neurotic female doctor narrating her anxieties and medical metaphors for life, and she was clumsy with it in a way that Meredith Gray (also MD) wasn't -- way more mottsy.

But I came back and decided to finish the ep, and...I might give the series a try, actually. They did a couple things I totally didn't see coming, and in a good way. I need more of that on my TiVo. And...I will have to ditch Go On and The Mindy Project to do so, and I am feeling no regrets at all.

Speaking of which, I estimate spent 2.5-3 hours minimum on the phone with one support or another (Did you reboot your tuning adapter indeed! When didn't i???) After all that (and if they'd triaged me right the first time...) I need a cable guy to come out and amplify a weak signal. At least TiVo and Time Warner agree on that.

Oh! Forgot! I bought both flaxseed and wheat germ to add to my muffins (not in the same recipe...) I figure I know how to work with adding wheat germ--is there anything I need to know about flaxseed when I get to that iteration?

This: [link] is the base I'm working with.

What would be the steps to turn in a church for violating 501(c)3? I really can't see it going anywhere without a big funder or organization behind the outcry.

Haven't there been churches deliberately and purposefully making political sermons - like, we'll all do it on this date and record the sermons and send them to the IRS or whoever - in the hopes of someone getting in trouble so there will be a test case? I can't remember where I heard about that. Probably Colbert, but I think it's a real thing.

Yeah, I doubt it would ever get pursued unless it was a) very large (and thus lucrative) and b) very publicly provable.

But seriously, I'm careful about my personal speech because of my 501(c)3, not even starting to talk about the organization espousing a political view much less endorsing a candidate. Although it would be pretty funny if it did, since the two partners who make up the company have opposing political views most of the time!