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.

I really do wish we had more in the way of a social life here.

I can word this. And I wish our social life included more kids for Noah to play with. Holey moley, he had a good time at our friends' place in Seattle. (Granted, there house was kid heaven...they even have a ball pit in their dining room).

fie on the cranky. We've been rather cranky over here at our house too. Maybe it's LA?

Dude, that's amazing. I want a ball pit in my dining room.

I just miss having people who could just come over and chill. Not for an event or dinner parties or whatnot. Just come by and kick back for a while. But maybe that's something that people only do in their college/post-college years.

We're supposed to go and watch the Jayhawks game with some people from our Sat. night church on Monday. But it involves the SO cooking, so it's not just hangout time. I dunno. I get most of what I need from all y'all, but he has no equivalent. Facebook, but you know that's not the same.

Maybe it's LA?

It must be West Coast, because I have the cranky too. He's sick, and I would be admitting I was too if he weren't. But he is, so I'm up late working and feeling sinusy and headachey and cranky. I woke up with a headache, which I hate. And it hasn't really gone away all day. I thought it was menstrual related, but I think no now.

FYI for everyone I've sent recipes to: I have a 6-qt slow cooker so you may have to downscale some recipes. I know for the corned beef everything only just fits in mine.

It must be West Coast, because I have the cranky too.

Did I mention I had ricotta on bread for dinner? Something's clearly wrong.

Maybe it's Olympic fever.