I'm enjoying a lovely brown ale (it's really more like a stout, I think) from Dogfish Head while Justin cleans the spinach for dinner tonight. Our late dinners are a sore point for me -- I hate having the kids up so late -- but it's kind of peaceful to hear the kids playing upstairs and just sort of waste my time while my sous chef does the boring ( Read more... )

Hey y'all -- thanks for answering the poll. I posted it after Justin objected to my idea of bringing fresh fruit and muffins to Ft. McHenry this am for a picnic brunch with his mom. He said "That's not substantial enough" and when I added boiled or deviled eggs he said 'that's not standard picnic fare." Fried chicken, sandwiches, chips, macaroni ( Read more... )

Poll Picnic Poll

Justin called just now to let me know he'd made it safely to the airport. Of course, he still has to drive home from bwi, but I never fret about him driving. It's the flying that scares me. And the fear that we'll have some sort of huge disaster when he's far away, either where he is, where we are, nationwide, or even something more or less ( Read more... )

The baby is still puking his brains out and I'm having a hard time not being really, really pissed at Justin for going away this week. Oops, more puke!

I'm going to sit outside on my porch and knit instead of doing the housework because it's over 60! I might even brew a pitcher of sweet iced tea. I'd decided to cut out tea (my only sugary beverage) for a week or so, but I hadn't counted on the weather being so nice. Somehow, porch time isn't porch time without a glass of sweet tea. Does that ( Read more... )

I'm still working on dinner: roasted beets and carrots with honey/shallot dressing (it's in the current Cook's Illustrated, and I'm subbing beet greens for the watercress because they came free! with the beets, ha ha) and rice with black pepper sauce. Justin left a pile of dishes and got home late tonight, plus Finch was awful and Robin broke a ( Read more... )

Today I wish I could leave Justin and take the kids to live with another mom and kids somewhere. Justin is one of the least misogynist straight men I know, and he's really got kind of a long way to go.

So we had salmon tonight for supper, and I told the kids that it was especially healthy because of the Omega 3 fatty acids, and Robin thought for a moment and said "I don't understand how fishes can have mega fatty asses."

Fucking corporate radio calling itself public! I can't wait to see what Steiner will do though -- he's nobody's fool and he's got a lot of public support. Sure would be funny if he went to wtmd, taking all the listeners with them, and Tony Brandon and his corporate pals would eventually realize that Frederick Co. can't provide enough listeners, ( Read more... )