cousin ify opted out of either hosting or celebrating thanksgiving this year. this settled the annual question about who was hosting what holiday. i started to wonder about a turkey day gathering around the beginning of the month but, knowing my family, knew the question couldn't be asked that far in advance. a couple of weeks before the date, i ( Read more... )

So, the editing of the research proposal didn't happen.  He decided to do some re-writes, so I'm waiting for the new version.  Instead, I got an email from another fellow wanting me to do edits for him.  Unfortunately, I didn't see the email right away, and he'd wanted the edits done by Monday morning.  He sent me a 'what they hey' text message ( Read more... )

Yesterday, a woman posted an ad offering a free carpet cleaner. Since the only floor-related item I've wanted more than a carpet cleaner is a hard floor cleaner*, I jumped on it. Then she put up an ad for cookie tins. "Cookie tins!" I thought, and jumped on those as well. Then she advertised "miscellaneous kitchen items," which is seriously ( Read more... )

1) ROG is cutting back on caffeine and sugar, and is flirting with veganism. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she doesn't turn into one of *those* people. LeRoi came in to make the coffee and she asked for just a half cup. (This was a few days ago. She's down to 'none for me, thanks' now ( Read more... )

Last Saturday was another deadline day: the day of Cousin Aurora's food festival debut, for which I'd agreed to play the role of minion from 11am-7pm ( Read more... )

So I had leftover lentils. (Okay, they weren’t really left-over; it just took me a long time to get around to doing what I wanted to do with them.) I’d wanted to make a veggie version of a pocket pie. But I was in a hurry and didn’t quite have time to do that (since I figured pie crust would take time, etc.). So I pulled out the South Carolina ( Read more... )

My mom lost one of her front teeth. It happened three weeks ago when she bit into a bone in a piece of meat. And I only noticed yesterday. (Of course, dad knew already because she told him. And her houseguest from Nigeria knew already, because it was her who gave her the meat. [Her and her crusade against boneless meat. Feh.]) I'm so bummed ( Read more... )

So I'm hosting Christmas this year. Time to start cooking and cleaning. And shopping ( Read more... )

Cousin E's wedding is this Saturday.  (Rehearsal dinner's on Friday.)  I had puzzled over what to wear.  Rather, I knew what I'd be wearing, but I wasn't sure how I felt about it.  Then on Monday, I got a call from mom.  The outfit she'd requested from Cousin Antho had finally arrived from Nigeria.

Mom: Do you like the color "pumpkin?"
Me: Um... why?
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I'm listening back to Saturday's show. I'm at the very beginning, so have a little under three hours left to listen to.

I won't write (much) about the dj's in front of me who kept yammering on and on and ended up running into my time; they did me a favor, though perhaps unintentionally. Their yammering on and on allowed me more time to collect ( Read more... )