Bullet points for today ( Read more... )

Yep, we're off to Urgent Care this morning. She can't put any weight on it without a ton of pain and it's still swollen ( Read more... )

The horror movie search continues. Scream didn't cut it. Craig and I think the next attempt should be The Blair Witch Project, but there is no way in hell I'm watching that one with her. Maybe I can convince her to watch it on her own. Otherwise, she'll have to look for herself ( Read more... )

After testing Poltergeist on Alicia, we've deduced she wants slasher scary. So tonight she is watching Scream with her BFF since they're having a sleepover here. Lucky me gets out of it, though in all fairness, I could probably sit and watch that one with her. I saw it in the theater when it first came out, and the cleverness/entertainment of it ( Read more... )

I am about ready to give up on tofu. I made the spinach and mushroom lasagna out of the Thug Kitchen cookbook tonight, and because it's a vegan cookbook, instead of cheese it had a tofu ricotta filling. Not a fan of it. Alicia liked it, but the rest of us were all pretty much meh. Especially for the amount of work involved. Totally not worth it for ( Read more... )

Next week this time, I'll be in San Antonio. I leave on Wednesday to attend a conference which ends in an awards banquet where one of my novellas is a finalist in the erotica category. It's a very small, intimate conference, at a great hotel, so I envision three relaxing days, to be honest. I'll go to a couple panels, but I don't really think I'll ( Read more... )

Man, my Oscar predictions this year were terrible. It was my worst year since 2005. I got three of the six biggies, and I can't really be surprised by Redmayne's win, but I'd put my money on Keaton getting the sentimentality/token nod for Birdman votes instead of it going the other way around. Plus, I never saw Linklater losing. Ever. I've been ( Read more... )

I need to play catch-up because it's been an insane week ( Read more... )

Frustrating day. Alicia went to the mandatory softball meeting at lunch today to discover that they need physician approval before even trying out, which has never happened before. Normally, it wouldn't be a problem. She had a full physical done less than a year ago, so it's just a matter of dropping off the form at the doctor's and having them ( Read more... )

I have a daughter officially in college. Believe it or not ( Read more... )