Enjoy the freezing rain/snow combo we're supposed to get tonight, Tommy!

F-Morgan, C-Hotch, M-Reid (Natch)

I need to bake my pies tonight.

I can imagine the original model being uncomfortable with that, stock photo or no. Particularly if people were threatening him. Still, you're right that when someone buys a stock photo, they're supposed to be free to use it.

Actually, defamatory uses of people's images are usually not considered to be covered by licensing agreements or the fair use rights of photographers snapping candids in public. So if you want to use a picture of someone in a way that implies they're a racist douche, it's best to get specific permission to do so in writing from the actual person.

Oh! Gotta say this too: I'm also thankful we were able to sell the farmhouse with relatively little trouble and drama (I said *relatively*). I'm thankful for the money I was thus able to put towards my mortgage thus saving even more than that in interest thus bringing me closer to my goal of having my house paid for before I retire.

Thanks, mom, for being thrifty all your life, and leaving us not a fortune but enough to get us closer to our goals of financial freedom, and for teaching us how to take care of money, and why we should.

I'm thankful I specified a lunchtime pickup for the turkey I bought today so we have several more hours of oven time available. I have to wonder how many families of mountain lions are buying these things to qualify them for the "ready to eat" label. It's not raw, exactly, but I wouldn't rate it more than half-cooked.

Ah well, by 6 pm tonight it should be a delicious crispy golden brown, and hopefully smell yummy enough that Mom will have a big appetite.

Amy, I love Liquid Gold for polishing. I am still oyal to lemon oil, but I cheat on it sometimes with Liquid Gold. It's SO SHINY.

Oof. In-law's are almost here in a drizzling rain. I am so excited to get my new dining room set it. I don't remember what it looks like, quite, except that it is all lightish wood, and certainly nicer than my present table.

My ham is done with the first part of baking, my cider-dijon sauce is reducing, and the house. IS. FUCKING. CLEAN!

Woot.

ETA: "LOYAL to lemon oil" Heh -- hilarious NPI.

Apple pies are in the oven. Woot!

Good luck, Erin!!!!!!

Report from the field: I would put Target at normal Saturday levels of clusterfuck, but that's comparing to Queens, which I bet is generally more of a clusterfuck than suburban Boston. I had high hopes that the Whole Foods has a student-y clientele, but that place was a TOTAL clusterfuck. Granted, it's a tiny and poorly-laid-out store, so it's always something of a clusterfuck, but yikes. I should have just gone to the Shaw's. At least there, one family stopped at the cheese samples doesn't block half the store.

TJ's wasn't bad at lunch hour.

Please let me remember that my keys are in the fridge before I get to my car.

I don't what scent is in this Liquid Gold, but it's addictive.

Why are your keys in the fridge, ita? ::chinhands::

Because my groceries are the in the fridge, and I don't want to go home without them. This seems to be the only way.

I renewed my benefits for 2011, and wow, are we ever a smaller company now. My medical costs are going to be so much higher next year. It kinda really sucks. Maybe I can get well before then? Yes?