Happy, happy holidays all! Last Friday we picked up my new car. As you know, I was pretty desolate at the loss of my old car, so I didn’t express the bouncing enthusiasm Neil would have liked to see in me. Nonetheless, it handles much like my Saturn, and is, I’ll admit, an even prettier color. (And really, isn’t that what truly matters in a car?) I ( Read more... )

I think one of our contractors has a freaky fetish. Now, probably plenty of the people around me have freaky fetishes and that is a-ok, as long as they don’t ask me to stick my high heels up their bums. But this contractor kid (yes, no more than 22 or so) keeps telling me about how he had dreams about giant women chasing him, and how he reads books ( Read more... )

Poll A rose is a rose is an Impreza

Note - car can be viewed here:
http://www.getauto.com/cardetail.html?vin=JF1GG65582G819436

100 Random things, from theaddictedpoet ( Read more... )

My life lately has involved a lot of scenes of the world going by in ways that it is not supposed to go (such as side-to-side and even upside down.) Both of our cars have been totaled in the past week. But we are both physically OK, and we are financially OK enough that, while buying two new or new-ish cars in a week is not my favorite thing in the ( Read more... )

A bunch of us had a big debate at dim sum on Sunday, and it got pretty heated. The question - would you rather be able to turn invisible or fly? Interestingly, no one had to give it more than a moment’s thought. So, what do you say? (I have an answer, but will hold off for a bit so that I don’t prejudice anyone, as I was pretty passionate about my ( Read more... )

Threes…

Quizzy goodness ( Read more... )

We saw Love, Actually yesterday (a concession to Keith’s June, who was such a little trooper about the dinner. I didn’t mind too much, though I expected it to be better than it was, what w/ the stellar cast they assembled.) Anyway, I realize that I could nitpick a million things about the movie, but here’s my one and only - the Natalie character ( Read more... )

I am still sleepy. We are finally houseguest-free for the first time since Wednesday afternoon. The house is only mildly disordered (although I think someone stole our gingermint toothpaste, the wretches.) Saturday was a 6AM - 2AM day. My feet haven’t hurt so much since my wedding day. Final counts: 48 people, 6 courses with 2 options for each ( Read more... )

I spent 2 ½ hours processing garlic yesterday. They claim lemon juice will get rid of the smell on your hands, but now I just need a little olive oil and I’ll smell like salad dressing ( Read more... )