I have been on a big body-love kick the last month or so, and it has been pretty great.

( Having a body is an ongoing project... )

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Half day at work, Yay ( Read more... )

( Bits'n'bobs. Asterlife. )

1. Are you a vegetarian? Vegan?
Vegetarian. Kind of. Poorly. I was raised vegetarian, and I still eat a mostly veggie diet, but it doesn't stop me from consuming animal flesh if it looks sufficiently tasty.

( ...but I love food )

12 hacks to make yourself smarter from Wired. (link from my bellydance teacher) I love Wired ( Read more... )

I am eating rice. Fresh, hot, fluffy brown rice. Made perfectly for me by my brand new rice cooker. It is so good.

It's a little sad I'm too incompetent to get rice right on any kind of consistent basis, but it's really fabulous that someone came up with a contraption so I don't have to.

New York Times has a great list of simple summer recipes: 101 Quick Summer Meals.
They claim they’re all under ten minutes, and I doubt that, but still fast and easy. Fairly healthy, too, for the most part, and cheap. I copied all the ones that fall in my weird quasi-vegetarian diet and am going to try to work my way through them.

( Food, mild angst )

The woman in front of me in line at the grocery store today was speaking french to her baby. I asked (en francais, bien sur) if she was french, and/or trying to raise the kid bilingual. She said she was French, and where was I from. I said here, and she said my french was excellent ( Read more... )

Abbe's making ginger cookies. I'm about to start some scones. It's raining a little, but I think we're determined to play in the snow anyway.

Then I've got a fun book and some new sci-fi dvds and an idefinite supply of hot chocolate and tea.