Oh for the love of...

I am now supposed to be in New York, London, Mexico City and San Francisco for varying reasons all in the last ten days of September.

Yikes, brenda! Although going to each of those places would be nice.

msbelle, it's country music week on Fresh Air, FYI -- yesterday's show had George Jones, Merle Haggard, and the guy who wrote D-I-V-O-R-C-E and a bunch of other stuff.

If I could do all that would be one thing. It's figuring out which and when that will be the challenge.

NY is definite. My order of preference for the rest would be probably London or S.F. (!) and Mexico last. If London happens it will trump S.F., unfortunately, unless dates shift around some. Not sure about where the others will fall.

NY is definite.

Yay!

If London happens it will trump S.F.

Boooo!!!

brenda, they should send you to New York, London, Paris and Munich. Just for the earworm.

Argh! I just talked to the IRS, and I shouldn't even think of looking for my Dad's return until October. I just want to get the estate finalized and go on with my life. This whole being fiscally responsible for things that affect other people in my family sucks.

Yes, even though she made it way more difficult than it had to be, I feel sorry for my sister having to be executrix for 10 years.

An article about the 7th annual World Testicle Cooking Championship

OZREM, Serbia — In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.

"This festival is all about fun, food and bravery," said Ljubomir Erovic, the Serbian chef and testicles gourmand specialist who organizes the bizarre cooking festival and has published a testicle cookery book.

The food — politely called "white kidneys" in Serbian — is believed to be rich in testosterone. In the Balkans, it is considered to help men's libido.

"The bulls' testicles are the best, goulash style," said last year's winner Zoltan Levai, stirring a metal pot heated by a wood fire and filled with vegetables and large testicles that he said were provided from a state-run slaughter house.

The festival — which includes dishes like testicle pizza and testicles in bechamel sauce flavored with a variety of herbs found in the region.

Yes, even though she made it way more difficult than it had to be, I feel sorry for my sister having to be executrix for 10 years.

At least she gets to be an ~ix.

Short of getting a whip and some boots that seems unlikely for me. It's the best suffix evah.

(OK, now I'm imagining the end of that word with a whip and some boots)

Thank Jesse. I was just enjoying blasting some Loretta. my poor cats have to listen to me singing full voice.

Boooo!!!

Very much this. Go SF, choose SF!

In other news? Apple Cider Vinegar, apparently, is the bomb! It will speed up digestion. I have learned that reflux is not from too much acid, usually, but from too little. So if you can speed up gastric emptying then you can avoid reflux. So, ACV it is!

I love ACV, it is all my mother used in vinaigrettes when I was growing up, so even now cucumber and tomato salads just don't seem right without it.