Voodoo Doughnut



Kira and An made the trek to Voodoo Doughnut this afternoon. Kira samples the frootloop while An tries a Tang. Shane looks on.



I have no idea why I look so insincere.



Doughnut buffet which we just started and now Bob is coming to pick us up for dinner. oops.

They're here!

Look, we have a canoe now. Too bad we have no way to transport it to water.

If there's a catastrophic tidal wave, all we have to do is remember to run out there and hold on for dear life.



The time change isn't my favorite. More light at night is nice but more dark in the morning is not. Also that missing hour. It's already 6 o'clock.

Got a lot of writing (revising, actually) and chores done this weekend.

Company arrives on Tues, Weds and Fri and also Fri. woo!

I used this photo to help me on a writing project today. It's the Trinity Alps Wilderness in July 07. I can't wait to go back.

Is Flickr on crack today?

I have a quick 15 minutes while the rice is still cooking so I thought I'd run in here and throw together another half-assed post.

When you make writing the first priority everything else is half-assed.

Flickr kept telling me I needed to sign in. Then I'd sign in and it it would say, "Oh no, you need to go back and sign in."

After we did this awhile I went to the h'ep menu and said my password wouldn't work.

I did the "WTF I can't login wizard" and it told me to check my email for some magical something that would help me login.

Then I did that and it said it expired and to try again later. Damn Flickr doing drugs on a Saturday night.



My sweetheart disappeared this morning to go buy his favorite muffins. After he left the store closed for the day. Gluten free, Eden. You can't leave until these muffins are gone.

My old health care just last week sent me a notice about how Cobra works. This is fantastic news seeing as how I went on Cobra back in October and actually switched to a new health care plan on January 1st. Which I've already used. And I can already tell has its act together 200% better than Healthnet.

I would say more but it seems terrible to complain about having bad shoes when 10% of my neighbors have no feet so we'll leave it at that.



Crow, watching the storm and waiting for Kira

I think I'm going to have at least a couple of daffodils when company shows up. I hope so.

I can hear the rice cooker beeping so I guess my time is up.

Hara hatchi bu, the Okinawan people’s habit of eating only till they are 80 percent full, is thought to be one of the secrets of their extraordinary health and longevity.

Via Scientific American

I think the real question here is how the Okinawans know they're 80 percent full. Do they ever err and eat until they're 85 percent full? Does it mix things up on the days they accidentally eat until they are only 73% full? Are children punished if they eat until they're 97% full?

Shadow Licking His Chops

Here's the part where you all get to laugh at me and my horrible taste in music.

Whatever. I've never tried to pretend I was cool. At least not on this blog.

I heard this song on the radio that I liked so I remembered some of the lyrics and looked it up on iTunes and it turns out the band is called Airborne Toxic Event and the song is called "Somewhere Around Midnight."

When I was a girl, bands had names like Mötley Crüe, Dëf Leppärd and Güns n' Röses.

WTF kind of name is Airborne Toxic Event? Oh, excuse me. The Airborne Toxic Event.

Here are some of my ideas for some band names:

Taco Eating Frenzy

Bloody Festering Wound

Shiny Hubcap Party

I'd think of more but I'm hungry and need dinner. Three loyal readers, please leave your ideas in the comments.

In the middle of the day Bob called from the other room, "Honey, come here. You have to see this."

It was this sandwich.

I thought I should share the moment.

Like every weekend, I didn't accomplish as much as I wanted. I think next weekend my goal is going to be one thing. Like, empty the dishwasher. Then I can marvel about all the things I do that I didn't have on my list.

Last night I woke up at 1am and couldn't fall back asleep. Bob was downstairs watching movies and heard me bumping around and came upstairs. Then I got the giggles and it took another couple hours before I fell back asleep. But I was glad that we were grown-ups and there was no one yelling at us from the other room to knock it off and go to sleep.