Nooooooo guests! Laura just called and said they were not in Alaska, and in fact were not even on their way to Alaska. They are stuck in Minneapolis with a plane having mechanical problems, and so they’re staying overnight there and will be in at 11:30 tomorrow morning. o.o “How civilized,” said me mither.
eat, drink, be merry
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die(t). Well, I have eaten and drunken and am merry in an exhausted low-key way. Actually, I pretty much can’t breathe, so I’m really not that merry, but I’m going on a diet tomorrow anyway. Hopefully I will stay on a diet longer than just, y’know. Tomorrow. Dieting’s not so bad if you do it for just one day . . . *tired grin* Meat and vegetable diet, mostly. Small portions, really. Small portions are most important. That’s gonna be hard to…
happy birthday!
Happy birthday to me, Janis, and Marilyn Monroe!
salads
The thing about salads is I don’t really like them. Except Super Supper Salads, which are Very Best. Super Supper Salads, as you might guess, are a dinner salad. They’re very easy to make. You take a couple kinds of lettuce and toss them together on a dinner plate. You put a spoonful of tuna fish (I mix mine up into tuna salad, which probably loses in the health benefits side but wins in the taste department) in the middle of this. You drop some tomato eighths artistically around the…
C.E. Murphy?
So I’m working on this book submission for a writing contest, and I have as usual seized up when it comes to the ‘by’ part. I have this very fine name here at my disposal: Catherine Eileen Murphy. I thought for a long time that Catherine E. Murphy would look splendid on a book cover. Except when people see the name Catherine, they diminutize it to Cathy, and I truly hate being called Cathy. Of all the diminutives of Catherine that there are, I *really* loathe that one. It’s a…