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At-con care
This year, I'm going looking for a proper babysitter/nanny for CONvergence weekend. For sure we need someone to be all-day-and-overnight with the kids (Eleanor age 7 and Henry age 2) on Friday and Saturday nights. I just need to suck it up and treat it like a proper "night on the town", like going to a play or the movies ( Read more... ) -
Lost: The End
I loved the ending. Works great for me. I'll have to post about it several times over hte coming weeks
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one year
March 16 is my "abstinence date." I've now had 365 days back-to-back of real abstinence.
Since it's a little unfamiliar term (Jon's practicing abstinence? does that mean he's not getting laid anymore?) the simple analogy is: abstinence is to overeaters what sobriety is to drunks ( Read more... ) -
is this thing on?
wow, do you guys still use this thing? hi livejournal, how's teh dramaz? I gotta change that user pic. Maybe I should write something, I pay for this shit... -
"could you just use bacon fat and red wine?"
Joel Robuchon appeared on Top Chef recently and I had a sudden heightened understanding of something that's nagged at me for a while. I put this in a comments thread on facebook, but I wanted to capture it here in one place ( Read more... ) -
six is a preview of sixteen
As of today I've been in the program for six months-I'll get a medallion for it tomorrow, actually. I'm working through step eight, and the spiritual part of my life is enlarging a fair amount. It happens I've also lost ninety-three (93) pounds in that time ( Read more... ) -
makin nice = bullshit
I was all set to embrace Joe Wilson's apology.
Joe, you are a complete asswipe if you think we are going to take you at face value when less than 24 hours after you apologize you go on Sean Hannity to get your ego stroked and post videos about how you're going to "keep fighting ( Read more... ) -
St. GermainIA!
I love the elderflower liqueur St. Germain. We recently tried their own recipes for the
French Gimlet
2 oz. gin
1.25 oz. st germain
.5 oz fresh lime juice
and the
St. Rita
1.5 oz. tequila
1.5 oz. St Germain
.5 oz fresh lime juice
Both very fun twists on the original. I also use it lightly in several other cocktails. It's quite sweet, almost ( Read more... ) -
The Lucy Ricardo
1 oz. light whisky (I used Powers Irish ( Read more... )
