I have a cold. It kind of snuck up on me. Normally, when I get a cold, it starts with soreness in the back of my nose and within a couple of hours I'm in full-blown cold-mode. This one began a few days ago with slight congestion, no big deal. I thought it was allergies acting up. But it's just gotten worse and worse since Friday. I wouldn't ( Read more... )

Tonight was the Landmark Society's annual Rochester Ghost Walk. I've always wanted to go, and never had, so this year I made sure that I bought a ticket. I went by myself; my One True Love is on his way back from Toronto, having attended a Big Giant Geek Conference. (Something sponsored by Stack Overflow, actually, but I prefer Big Giant Geek) ( Read more... )

Last month, I wrote about having a dinner party without meat. Well, tonight was the night. I made the menu I was musing about. Thursday night I baked acorn squash for the emapanadas. Then Friday night I prepared the filling and the pastry. Today I spent two hours rolling pastry and folding empanadas. We had spicy rice and a salad, and ( Read more... )

How's this for a company dinner?

• Black Bean and Acorn Squash Empanadas
  
• Guacamole
  
• Pico de Gallo
  
• Rice, flavored in some as-of-yet-undetermined way
  
• Chopped Salad with mixed greens, tomatoes and blanched corn
  
• Bluevado Pie
  

I know that one of our guests really isn't crazy about vegetables. She eats them because she knows she should, but she's got very ( Read more... )

Dang. Missed another day. I had a good excuse, though ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of my spring break. (Yeah, it's early at my shop.) Of course, I still have the weekend, but I always do have the weekend, so the last really breaky day was today. I spent it in a meeting with my pastor, picking up the house for the cleaning crew (I don't clean it, I just put things away so that they can clean it), and then ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I absent myself from hearth and home and husband to deprive halfdreams of the free use of most of her day off. Hopefully she won't mind very much, and perhaps I can bribe her and linaeloisetook into pretending to be glad to see me by taking them out for dinner ( Read more... )

• I am cold.
• My throat is much better, thanks.
• Still can't sing.
• halfdreams and linaeloisetook are here, and
• calsabon is coming today.

My voice was much much better today. So of course we went to a party tonight that had a zillion people packed into a house that held 0.8 zillion. And I made the mistake of talking to people. So my throat is very sore and I am very hoarse. I undid all the good I did yesterday.

Sigh.

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