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.

I have a headache that has LA written all over it. Well, LA and crappy poorly planned lessons that I'm pulling out of my butt.

thank you, megan. I shall have to try out some new recipes.

As for a social life, I'd like it if more of mine was less focused on my kids.

Yeah, I think we have the opposite problem, Burrell. We don't have kids and pretty much everyone in our demographic does, so we just don't have people to hang with because their social lives do revolve around their kids.

In fact, we kinda went from hanging out with singles (we were more or less the first married out of our group) to couples before they had kids to now empty nesters. Which, okay, he's 40 and I'm 34, but we're not empty nesters. So, it's weird. It means we mostly hang with people who are not our demographic. Like his two buddies, who are early twenties, just out of school, single, trying to figure out their future. We're good mentors for people like that, but it's a different social dynamic.

I kinda relate to the whole Marshall/Lily couples dating thing. Sadly. Although now that I think about it, I probably relate to Lily way more than is good.

(eta: Anyway. I'm going to check on the SO and take a Midol and stoke the fire and watch Leverage. So I should be feeling marginally better shortly.)

Leverage is ♥ tonight. Great way to wrap up a season and leave you hungry for more.

I hope you feel better.

Liese, I totally miss that "just drop in and hang out" thing.

We stayed in the town we went to high school in after we got married, and a lot of friends did, too. Even after we had Jake, friends would show up on a Saturday afternoon, or we could decide last minute to go to the mall, and just hang around on a Friday night watching X-Files and having a beer.

I miss that desperately, I really do.

Thanks, megan!

My crankiness is low-level, but my introversion is high.

Oh, man, Olympics. Ouch.