Right now the right coast is in hell.

I've had 3 rescheduled hair appts, 3 dentist and 3 vet. I think that's a new record. And to make my hair appt, I'll have to double the drivetime and even then...

megan, could I get the recipes, too?

chrismg71 at gmail dot com

tanks muchfully

Have my recipes caused someone to delurk in Natter? Or have I been skipping to much?

Your crockpot (slowly) brings all the lurkers to the board?

Happy to report that it is merely Nature's Own double-fiber bread that tastes like it's made from raw twine, not all varieties. Since tonight's sandwich was eaten a few hours after a TV dinner rather than my first solid food in 2 days, I'm fairly secure in pronouncing it legitimately tasty.

megan, can I get the slowcooker recipes? tamara dot skaredoff @ gmail

For someone sending out all these recipes, you'd think I'd have a better dinner than ricotta on bread and blood orange juice, but no.

blood orange juice sounds divine.

I'm feeling super cranky and like shit. I can't breathe for anything. I have an ap for Dept of Ed Fellowship. I need to get approval of my principal and someone else. Sigh. I'm making things complicated today.

Ooh, yay, slow cooker! Profile addy, please! Thank you.

chrismg delurked in...firefly? But is not a frequent delurker. So yay for recipes luring peeps from the shadows. Hi, chrismg!

I am such an introvert, but I am a mildly high profile person. I work with kids all day and then I go do public speaking to raise support for the work. I play in a band so there are people who know me from looking at me on stage every week, but I don't know them.

So I'm capable of turning on the social interaction when necessary. And I can tell by watching my sister, who has just come home from Africa, that I have improved significantly in my ability to just do banter and small talk and such. (It turns out those awkward pauses on the phone weren't just because of the international phone line delays, hee.) But I get seriously tired out by doing it, and definitely need to recharge.

The SO has announced that he is becoming less of an extrovert. And it's freaking me out! He's not supposed to catch introversion from me (tongue in cheek, of course, I regard introversion as Perfectly Normal and not a disease. I am just mocking the general way it's regarded.) instead, I'm supposed to be able to use his extroversion to glide through social situations with ease!

I joke, but I really do wish we had more in the way of a social life here. Somehow despite having a community and knowing a ton of people locally, we live too far out or are too broke or something and we just don't get together with people that much. His two closest friends are getting ready to move away, one in April and one in May. It's kind of a bummer.

But we are probably going to get another roommate for a while; an intern-ish person, the son of some of our supporters. He's a super cool kid, a drummer, with interesting politics with whom I expect I will argue. So probably that will avert some of the bummerness for the SO, although of course that also means I have social anxiety about it.

Anyway.

In other news, have I mentioned that I am completely consumed by Olympics? Because I am.

Aww, kat. Sorry to hear that. Some days are just cranky days.