OMG, Claire Saffitz from Bon Appetit Test Kitchen just came out as a huge Buffy fan. It's her "favorite show ever": [link]

Does JZ get to horsewhip someone like Miss Ellie?

She's more into tongue-lashing than horsewhipping.

David, I'm glad you completed your onerous task. You and Jacqueline have been through Hell. It just turns out some of Hell's neighborhoods are absurd.

We still have to see about filing our taxes. Due to DH's layoff the year before, his severance put us over the limit for collecting the Covid bucks, based on the taxes we filed last year. This year's taxes (i.e. 2019 income) would qualify us. By the time we got our heads on straight, our local H&R Block was closing for the season. Now we have to re-adult and call one that's still open. So far, we've only talked about it a lot.

Talk about completing onerous tasks though, as of today, we have no teenagers. It-Was-White-And-Square-And-Looked-Like-A-Tooth turns 20.

Will he ever live that down? (I suspect not)

Ooh I'm waiting in line for Trader Joe's (annoying even if understandable) but just got a call from the surgeons office asking if I wanted to be in line to be operated on as soon as they're allowed again! I said yes—it's outpatient and in a stand-alone surgery center not at the hospital—I figure now is a great time to be recovering from surgery too!

Will he ever live that down? (I suspect not)

Not really, Toddson. I used to tell him I was going to punch him on the nose on his 25th birthday (for that, and for the time he escaped the house when he was 3-years-old). When he was so sick last year, I cancelled the punch promise though.

meara, it's a great time for any kind of hunkering, I figure.

We still have to see about filing our taxes. Due to DH's layoff the year before, his severance put us over the limit for collecting the Covid bucks, based on the taxes we filed last year. This year's taxes (i.e. 2019 income) would qualify us.

Last year's severance put me over the limit. This year I would qualify but, oh well. I still got a refund, which was a surprise.

David, that's some serious business drama. May it all work out well and quickly for all involved.

I just made a cake, for the first time in decades, and now I'm gonna frost it and eat it.

It-Was-White-And-Square-And-Looked-Like-A-Tooth turns 20.

That happened not long after I joined the board. 20 years. Huh.

That sounds like a good plan, meara!

I seem to have sent my grocery money on takeout again this week. Oops.

Timelies all!

sj, Mr. S's PEP class has been holding ZOOM sessions every weekday. He hasn't been very interested in it, and has actually closed Gary's computer during it a couple times.

Tired because Mr. S woke up early today. Nova being very vocal in the mornings doesn't help.

That happened not long after I joined the board. 20 years. Huh.

He was six when that happened Zenkitty (which was far too old for that nonsense).