Thanks, Cass. I'll pass that onto her.

I've never made slow cooker pot roast before today, and it's a basically decent recipe. Could do with punching the spices a bit, but the texture of the beef is perfection, and I'd rather it that way around.

Just finished watching Beasts of the Southern Wild and I can barely stand to look at Quvenzhané Wallis. She pulls up a lot of feelings I don't have proper words for, but mostly futile protectiveness. Her character in this is so fierce and so beautiful.

I am not putting my brain through the contortions required to see her as Annie for a while.

Okay, now I got to work out how to put away 4lbs of beef minus 3 ounces. And where.

Cass's recipe is similar to mine for pesto.

ita, I'm glad nurse was nurse!

Did you count? I just try to go to a happy place in my head and have it be over. Because otherwise I would let them wax and then try to run away.

I did count. I figured I could handle 100 plucks. But when she got to 70 some on one side, I thought, oh shit. The brows look GREAT though.

I bought 5 pairs of pants at Lands End today, including 3 pairs of cords (green, red and off white) and 2 pairs of jeans. YAY pants.

I think I'm also becoming okay with getting fat again. I just don't have it in me to try to lose all the weight or to keep it off.

ALSO, while I'm at it, I had to go pick up more girl scout cookies and I went to a cookie cupboard, which is where the cookies live in each service unit. Mine is about 1/3rd of a mile away. It was floor to ceiling cookies in someone's garage. So scary.

I usually end up making pasta sauce with some of the leftover pot roast. In general, I think it freezes well.

Liese has given me courage to use my ladder improperly.

I believe I must stop watching Downton Abbey, for the sake of my sanity.

I think I might be drunk. It's okay, everything is under control.

Pot roast cooks down a lot.

If you die, it's not my fault!

Pot roast cooks down a lot.

I still have masses left. And it's more tender than I was expecting for a sandwich point of view, but I'm really not leftover averse. If I liked it the first time, I can usually cheerfully plough through it again and again, but this is definitely into my next week's meal plan at the very least. I have two or three servings in the fridge and the remaining seven million in two containers in the fridge. I didn't think through freezing the last soup I made, and I'm not going to slip up that way quite so soon.

Next week. With the chili. I'm pretty sure I'll be ready to slip up then.

If you die, it's not my fault!

It's totally not your fault.

Please only use your ladder improperly while sober.

Pot roast (or anything out of a crock pot and thus delicious) freezes pretty well. It's not perfect but it's good.

I did count. I figured I could handle 100 plucks. But when she got to 70 some on one side, I thought, oh shit. The brows look GREAT though.

That's where they get you. They do an amazing job and then you go back. I'm glad I tint my own or I'd be even more indebted. Maybe I'll count next time. It'll be a meditation on not just getting up and running screaming.