Father in law and father in law's girlfriend arrive this evening for a long visit. I am trying not to be grumpy and whiney about the disruption to my life, or freak out about the state of the house ( Read more... )

Since you lot are so helpful about chicken marinades, I challnge you to submit your favorite healthy, tasty meals that can be prepared in 20 minutes or less. (Rachel Ray, eat your heart out ( Read more... )

Anyone have suggestions for good marniades to impart flavor to chicken before grilling it?

Gosh I wish I had a lifestyle that permitted seeing movies before they come to DVD. Forget Batman. Here's a nice recollection of Dana Scully.

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2008/07/24/scully/

To quote it:
Scully was a leading lady to fall for, a ( Read more... )

I woke up Monday morning. I was right smack in the middle of a dream ( Read more... )

Mal has only been going to his new day care in Naperville for a little over a week -- not really long enough to get settled or determine how it's going to be. Never the less, we decided to be decisive and switch Malcolm to another day care facility, C. He started today. Some of the good traits of the original one, call it P, turned out to not be ( Read more... )

For those of you who want to watch a somewhat cheesy short video about Naperville, here's one. This says that NV is rated the 3rd best place to live in the US. My co-worker says last year it was rated #1 ( Read more... )

Today I used up my first ten-ride train ticket. I am still awed by it. I have been counting the cars, and my train this morning had 10, and was full. This means it carried 1200 people from Aurora and Naperville to downtown Chicago. I had to sit in the last car to be assured of getting a seat. At out destination, from that car it takes 5 minutes ( Read more... )

We now own the Pamela. We will be looking for a new name for it. In answer to those who asked "why Pamela?" it's just the name of the street. Hence why I want a name that is more unquie to the house (and isn't the name of a friend). I fear, however, that Pamela will stick, and Prince Corwin can continue to be amused whenever I refer to her/it.

Malcom now readily says "Down, down to goblin town." The fact that he doesn't know what it means doesn't bother him, as he says lots of things like that. He also says "fall back!" and has no clue what that means ( Read more... )