A little over a week ago, two things happened.  I had occasion to call UNC Hospital's Patient Advocacy line because I was having trouble getting an appointment at a specific UNC clinic, and I left a pair of prescription glasses at the Cracker Barrel in Clemmons, NC ( Read more... )

... trying to slog out of the Slough of Despond and not succeeding particularly well.  Somebody tell me something cheerful, willya?

I have cooked no dinners.  I have cleaned no houses.  We are, however, still around ( Read more... )

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MM slept for seven hours straight last night without waking up.  This sounds good for maternal sleep, right?   Unfortunately, the seven hours were from 9 to 4.  I went to bed after 11.  Even more unfortunately, it turns out that when babies who are not accustomed to it sleep for seven hours without waking up, when they *do* wake up, they feel - ( Read more... )

The second international recipe for the week was Algerian, Chicken Tagine With Apricots and couscous.  It was pretty good, but then both TDG and SS like sweet chicken.

I have a feeling this week is going to be kind of weak for international recipes; SS has requested our Egyptian meal again, and I'm in the mood for shrimp and grits, and that may be ( Read more... )

Dinner last night was too-long-leftover pizza and a pasta primavera analog that I made up on the fly using leftover ham from someone else's Easter dinner on Sunday.

Monday's dinner was one of our two internationally inspired dinners this week: Cuba.  I made ropa vieja, yellow rice from a mix, and a chayote/potato/cream soup that probably wasn't ( Read more... )

I really wish I had a movie of SS's recent dancing fits because they're hysterical - the kind of dance moves a five-year-old boy heavily influenced by Avatar: The Last Airbender can make up on his own are very interesting.  (Awesome show, by the way.)

The last few weeks creative home dinners have been spotty because of several bouts of vomiting ( Read more... )

7. So there I was jabbering at her about my new job as a serious newsman - about anything at all - but all I could think was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful and yet again, wonderful.  LA Story

13. Dad, I am not going to have phone sex with you and mom! Jeffrey

14. He's not confused about my butt. Threesome

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Pick 20 of your favorite movies and post a quote from each. As people guess the movies in the comments without googling, etc, cross off each correctly identified quote and give the lj name of the correct commenter.

I'm not sure if these are actually my top 20, but they're at least 20 I really, really like.  One of them isn't technically a movie; ( Read more... )