Check behind the cuts for extensive babbling about food and activities:

Friday night: No hockey! Ugly Betty! Provolone grilled cheese for dinner (alas, not the Mafia Cheese, but still pretty good)! I also spent about an hour and a bit cooking in preparation for the weekend; at the moment I’m on a cooking-ahead kick, because it makes life so much ( Read more... )

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Everyone else was filling in that TV meme a while back, where you say what you're watching every night of the week, but I didn't get around to it. So I thought I'd do it now and give y'all a little slice of British TV viewing. The week is not as set in stone here though, as most British series run fewer than 10 episodes.  Anyway, here's what I've ( Read more... )

 
I haven’t posted for so long about anything substantive that now I feel compelled to just blurt out a bunch of random stuff:

The GG Family: Feeling settled back in across the pond, even though it’s not for long, really. I am just trying to make the most of it and enjoy the things I like about being here. I am also trying not to over-commit myself ( Read more... )

I have piles of work to do, my bathroom needs cleaning, and I'm leaving the country in two days. So what else to do but meme?



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Oh dear, so long since I did a real entry. However, today is not the day when I will manage to produce one. In the meantime, I meme:


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So, I told the 'rents about Oz on Tuesday night. It went just about as I expected it to, except that I did two things differently than I have the last two times I broke the news to them that I was moving to a different country ( Read more... )

Actually I was falling asleep over my copy editing, so I had to do *something* to wake up:

I look forward to getting suspended when at the moment I don't even have time to post.

Tonight is the night we break the news to the 'rents about Oz. Send me some good karma!

Now back to my huge piles of work.

In honor of completing three solid weeks of single parenting, I wrote up my schedule for today, which was fairly typical of life at this stage. Only 1.5 more days to go until DP gets here!

7:30 Get up. Go in to say good morning to Miss B ("Hi Mama!") give her some books to look at in the crib. Take shower and get dressed. Get Miss B up and dressed.
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Miss I is not the only one! I knew there was a reason we get along:


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