Recipes from Hell:

All of you who sniffed and commented (or just thought) that my last recipe from hell could have been worse because at least it contained no Jell-O? FINE. I'll make sure the next one has gelatin in it, and probably also chunks of meat and seriously inappropriate condiments. Don't say you weren't warned.

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Shark Week:It's ( Read more... )

Poll Ninja AssassinMy brain can take NaNoWriMo plus a fairly large proofreading project at the same time. However, my right arm is proving it cannot, even though I always wear my wrist brace when I use my laptop. This year my right elbow is getting in on the act, too. Frak me. I'd already be well over 50K if I hadn't been stupid (or financially prudent) enough to ( Read more... )

The bad:• I have the sick. Not the terrible H1N1 sick (which my second-youngest sister has, so she's stuck in her apartment until she's plague-free; one of H's interns, an otherwise healthy teenage boy, got it and then ended up in the hospital with pneumonia last week, but he's going to be okay), just a bad cold. It's lovely, that feeling of having ( Read more... )

First appointment with my new dermatologist today. She told me I have beautiful skin, which has been making me happy all day. I'm kind of obsessed with my skin, but I figure I deserve to be after suffering from acne from ages eleven to twenty-seven. A six-month course of Accutane finally got rid of it. That and my fanatical devotion to sun ( Read more... )

One of the gifts I have bought for my father, from whom I inherited my firm belief that a headache probably means a brain tumor:


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What is it with me and food poisoning and Easter ( Read more... )

So the Oscars are tonight or something? Okay. I've just been that out of it, I guess, plus there's no point in my watching since I haven't seen any of the important movies ( Read more... )

1.03 "The Witch of Elsdon":• Pretty, blond Sir Guy, why must you be so attractive even when you're accusing women of witchcraft because they wouldn't put out? Is it the dashing blue cloak? The shiny chain mail ( Read more... )

I was just settling in for a nice, long bout of NaNo writing this afternoon when I started feeling a few ominous twinges of pain in my right hand/wrist. Oh, joy. This also happened during NaNoWriMo 2005, I remember ( Read more... )

The not-so-good:

1) Had the annual GYN poke-and-prod today. Super fun, as always. There's nothing like a pink-rosebud-print hospital gown and stirrups to make one feel dignified.

2) My favorite (flattering and perfectly broken-in) jeans have developed a fatal tear in the crotch area. RIP. It'll take ages for the replacements to feel as good.

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