How to tell you are still fundamentally American even if you’ve been living in Ireland for five and a half years: it does not even cross your mind that the entire city centre will be closed down because it’s Saint Patrick’s Day…
thinks to do…
…today: – call the theatre to see if they have better seats available for Chess than ticketmaster does – vacuum the living room – wash the diaper wraps – clean the kitchen – get books signed, enveloped, and addressed (50% accomplished, which is what I really figured was achievable) …in the next 24 hours: – get books into the mail – an Elegant Legacy update …this week: – catch up on the 5300 words I’m behind in writing *sigh* – go to the Steve McCurry photo exhibition, nevermind that this…
thinks to do…
…this morning: – clean the kitchen – empty the fridge of all the stuff ruined by the Great Power Outage of 2011 – eye the freezer to try to determine if things were ruined by the GPO2011 – go buy some essentials like milk & baby yogurt to replace the above etc etc etc – get laundry started …today: – get a shopping order put in – buy tickets to Chess – tidy and ideally vacuum the living room …in the next 24 hours: – get books signed, enveloped, and…
best cake: not
Well, after tasting the batter and the frosting, I have to say that the so-called best cake ever tasted exactly like I thought it would, which is to say, it tastes like a box cake. That was a lot of trouble to go to to make a box cake. And I weep for anybody who thinks that’s the best cake ever. I’m embarrassed to send it to Ted’s work.
*sigh*
ok, anybody know how to set up captcha on LJ? I’m starting to get porn site spam there (after, y’know, only ten years of using it) and just don’t want to deal with it.