Connie, you can add more butter or parmigiano if you want a less acidic tomato sauce. There are a lot of little tweaks you can do but that's the first thing that comes to mind. Also if you sautee onions and carrots in butter first and them build the sauce around that it will have some depth of flavor and less acid.

Also just add sugar.

This weekend+1: stock up for invalidhood. Meaning not just noncontraversial food, but all the heavy stuff I might need for the next 2-3 weeks. Bake 5 dozen cookies. Clean my house, because that too won't be happening for a bit (between recovery and Xmas.) Launder everything (see previous.) Last 2 swims before hiatus. Talk to Y trainers (haven't run into the one I'm friendly with recently.)Go to cookie swap. Stop eating and drinking at midnight Sunday. Take cookie swap cookies to neighbors and Y. Get gallbladder yanked.

Health~ma to the ill, gall bladder yanking~ma to sarameg.

I still say the best tomato sauce is Marcella Hazan's: butter, onion, and tomatos. That's it.

Yeah, that's the first one I thought of too.

Also, I really don't care for Bactrim. It's not making me nauseous per se, just makes food seem gross, which is the last thing I need right now. Odds are I'm gonna drop below 140 for the first time since I was 18. And I've got a lot more muscle now.

I'm tempted to take pre-surgery pics of my torso, just for me. Because I've never had major surgery before, and this will leave at least 4 scars from a knife. It's all just so strange to me. I grew a freaking rock, likely for no other reasons than genetics, it deformed an organ, silently, for years, and then went critical. Now they'll chop my insides open and reduce me an organ. And shotglasss sized stone. WTEverlovingF.

Aw, the guy who played Stefano on Days of Our Lives passed away.

Aww- Stefano...

And I totally remember Eugene and Calliope.

I followed multiple channels of soaps, too. Days was my first soap, but then I moved to ATWT and GL.

I need to get freezer bags to store things in. I wish a third of my freezer wasn't taken up with an ice maker I don't use.

So, the theatre that I'm involved in is putting on a Christmas show, next weekend and then the Wednesday and Thursday between Christmas and New Years (because that makes perfect sense).

It's going to be fucking EPIC.

The director, who isn't really a theatre person, wrote it. I don't think she's ever directed anything before. I'm not real sure she has yet. What little bit of her writing I have encountered did not feature a lot of dialogue. I think it tells you a lot about the board that all of my friends were in the "Danger, Will Robinson" camp and the board was like "This seems like a solid plan"

This is a Christmas show. It is not for kids under age 12. It is "dark." It has a hard-to-pronouce name. There is a character called "Lamb," who, I swear to the old gods and the new, is not Jesus, literally or symbolically.

They stole their logo.

There are, apparently, parts that are still uncast (which, given the revolving door that this cast has been is both totally predictable and a little surprising). At this point, they're still planning on using projections, and they're recording voice over this weekend.

There is no tech rehearsal.

I am going on opening night because this is the Christmas Show that 2016 deserves.