I have pie crust chilling. The sensible thing to do would be to start the filling cooking before I get in the shower, but...unh.

Applesauce feels like failure to me.

Apple Butter. Mmmmm.

Oh god, apple butter. No way that's a failure. MMMM.

I am off to Pilates and then got work/work to do(writing job descriptions, how thrilling) then going to see Captain Phillips tonight. Because I lead a glamorous life, that includes dinner at Panda Express.

Mmmm. Crispy pandas.

The apples and pear are cooking, I'll add blueberries at bake time. Shower!

It looks like § ita § is surrounded by hurricanes.

I don't even know how to make those not-S-es show up.

Also, I am damn tired of waking up with a headache. It's been almost every day this week, and while it's not the worst headache, by any means, some of the days I haven't been able to beat it back with drugs. And it makes it hard to get up and get anything done. GRRR. Not sure what to do, and/or how much it's related to this cold that isn't QUITE gone yet. But OW.

Was everyone aware of the prescription drug regulations for the United Arab Emirates?

patients or travelers carrying prescribed prescription medications must have their prescriptions issued by licensed doctors, attested by a notary public, and, in the case of U.S. citizens, duly authenticated by both the secretary of state of one’s U.S. state, and finally also authenticated by the Secretary of State of the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C.

The list of controlled medications is ridiculously long, includes a lot of stuff like Prozac and some asthma medications that a lot of people take, and there have been a whole lot of arrests for medications that weren't even on the list. Maximum penalty is four years in prison. [link] (Someone I know was supposed to be going there for work, but can't, because she's on a couple of those medications and doesn't think that she can get them authenticated by the Secretary of State.)

Packed the folks off, am absolutely exhausted. Ate lots of good food, saw lots of beautful things (Terrain at Styer's is both, although ridiculously expensive). My dad had a blast and we even did a spontaneous trip to Valley Forge before heading back to my place.

He drove us nuts the entire trip with his need for physical maps (he doesn't trust the Garmin and has an innate need to be able to see the big picture about where we're going in relation to where we've been, I get that, and it's a lost art for me). That plus his unexpected surprise at how fun visiting places is (he hasn't had a proper vacation since we stopped going to the lake cottage when I was in junior high), his Christmas present will be AAA mapped trips that can be launched from his or my place and be taken in a three or four day weekend.

I discovered that Longwood rents scooters and spent the rest of the day zooming around and dodging small children.

§ ita §

SG-1 serpent staffs?