Because apparently it's National Piss-Every-Hour Day. I swear, I've drunk maybe ONE bottle of water all day--mostly I've been getting my liquid from tomatoes--and I feel like I've been in the bathroom 90% of the time. Le sigh. It wouldn't be so bad if the cats didn't follow me in every time I go in there and try to drink from the toilet while I'm ( Read more... )

I am making chulnt tomorrow. Chulnt is a Yiddish word for "chamim," (that's the Hebrew word, literally "hot stuff") a dish that's from...well, I'm not really sure. Because both my Spain-born Ashkenazi great-grandmother and my aunt's Iraqi mother-in-law have recipes for it, and they're from completely different cultures (although both very very ( Read more... )

So I'm going to class now, but I won't be back online before I leave. I'll be in California from 11 pm PST tonight until about noon tomorrow, and then we're boarding the ginormous cruise ship and heading to Mexico ( Read more... )

My mom wants to take us (herself, my dad, my brother and sister and I) on a cruise to Mexico for Spring Break. I think she's jealous, because everyone we know except for her has gone on a cruise (usually somewhere cooler, like the Caribbean or the Bahamas or Hawaii or Alaska or something) and she desperately needs to make it all equal in her brain ( Read more... )