Apparently, Mark Bittman appeared on the Today show this morning, and Matt Lauer congratulated him on his recent marriage ( Read more... )

In my world, you don't get to bitch about politics unless you cast a vote. Since bitching about politics is a serious hobby in my house--somewhere in between eating and reading (and we really like to eat and read around here)--I take voting rather seriously ( Read more... )

My cancer is officially in remission.

I was talking to somebody recently about a nearly-fatal flaw that happened in a work context. This person (who meant well) said something about how it wasn't fated to turn out the way I wanted it to. I immediately responded that I screwed up and I accept full responsibility for my errors. I don't blame God or figure events were predestined, because ( Read more... )

I am buying myself nice woman-tailored chef jackets. Ones that hopefully won't suck ( Read more... )

Friday started normally enough. We picked up the Colin and went out for sushi (yeah, he eats sushi) before coming home and crashing on the couch with some Mad Men. I put Colin to bed as usual, but he woke up and whined a few times before we retired which is unusual but not unheard of. I figured if I left him alone to put himself back down he'd ( Read more... )

E: "We might be the only family in America who just went from watching John Adams to Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay."

(Colin was asleep for the second part of our double feature, thankyouverymuch.)

So, apparently I am positive for the BRCA-1 genetic mutation. So I'm at high risk for ovarian cancer on top of an 87% risk for breast cancer. (Uh, glad I already got the breast cancer out of the way? Is that what I'm supposed to say ( Read more... )

Long time, no substantive post.

( State of the Malawry )

We bought Colin an Elmo toy cell phone for the car trip this summer. He wants to play with it every time he gets in the car, and we've gotten used to hearing it chirp and sing and giggle with that unmistakable cute-but-thwapworthy Elmo voice ( Read more... )