We should go, meara!

Aw, all the LAistas. More people move to Philly! We need more Phillistas!

R made the (much improved due to time and available ingredients) alfredo she used to make us in Prague on 2 hotplates with some sickly looking vegs we'd scour the KMaj and Julius Meinels (and the once produce place Fruit de France which was always random.) This time: local portabellos, zucchinis and asparagus, real parma, spinach fettucini and we have much better taste in wine these days! 16 years, wow.

Good day. There is no explanation as to why I am still upright. We marketed, went to the Y (where N passed the swim test beautifully and got to swim in the deep end!) and had a bit of Honfest. Which was mostly just sitting in the shade and feeding N and listening to my neighbor's Best-Boyfriend-Ever's band play. Which N ranked the second most awesome adventure of the trip so far, right after the flight itself. Not bad on maybe 4 hours normal sleep for each of us.

Tomorrow, American Girl store for N to spend some much saved money on a new doll, accessories and hairdo for her existing one, followed by "tea" (really just lunch) at their restaurant. I suppose I will have to wear a proper dress for N.... And then we will Y. R is about as determined as I to get her Y time. N goes to childwatch or reads on the kindle while she's on the tread, and then they come to the pool for the last half hour of my swim, and then N and I goofed around and raced in the lap lanes. Heh.

Also, FT(hilarious)R: N has officially exhausted not only Loki, but Pumpkin too. She's a lot like my neighbor's daughter G, with a strong streak of Love them and hug them and call them George Elmira. I had to tell N to leave Pumpkin alone in my NannyVoice, and she confessed indignantly to her mom later that "I don't want to hurt Aunt Sara's feelings but she's just like YOU!"

Pumpkin is a little more wary about N, but no moreso than Loki was initially (G initiated him.)

We'll have to keep on that. OTOH, when N was reading her kindle tonight next to her mom on the futon, Devi (the infamous invisible-hidey-hates-strangers-bitey-when-she-likes-them cat) hopped up between them and took a nap. She's just given up and maybe figures her rep precedes her?

I know Dev has gotten more tolerant of the people, but that was rather shocking. N did know her rep, though, so gave her a wide berth.

Just got back from seeing the touring company of Mamma Mia!. It was a fun show, and Chloe Tucker was a better Sophie than Amanda Seyfried was in the movie. (Though unfortunately Christian Whelan didn't sing any better than Pierce Brosnan, and also looked and acted like an angry Ed Begley Jr.—which made it very difficult to root for his character to reconcile with Donna...)

I took advantage of being on Atkins to eat a guilt-free rack of ribs with no veggies at the Rendezvous afterward. Still the best BBQ ribs in the world!

Timelies all!

Got all my errands done yesterday, minus watching my Netflix disk. Turns out the disk had a long crack/scratch on it, so it wouldn't play. Notified Netflix, and will send it back. Ah, first world problems...

a strong streak of Love them and hug them and call them George Elmira.

ah ha ha! That is exactly how Franny is with our cat Folly! She carries Folly around the house snuggling her to within an inch of her life.

That video of the toddler in the petting zoo hugging the goats was so funny, because you can just imagine how much time his parents have spent training him to be gentle with dogs!

OMG, the dryer still doesn't work! Despite what a neighbor told me last week. Next week, seriously remind me to go to the laundromat.

I got up to watch tennis, and there's a rain delay. What the hell, France.