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Erin, wow! MOM.

I KNOW, amyth! I didn't think I would love it so much, but when he was getting his hair cut today and was babbling up a storm to the stylist about Skyfalls or whatever the hell it's called, he was all "And Mom and Dad are having New Year's..." and a little bit ago, when I was making him clean up a little bit, he was joking with me and was all "You're the MEANEST MOM EVER!"

CRA. ZY.

I never, never wanted to have kids, never would have HAD one, and the fact that I met Dan less than a month after the hysterectomy that I was perfectly happy to have is so weird...but I love this kid.

This is adorable: JGL and Zoey Deschenel play What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? [link]

I'm not normally a fan of her voice...maybe she should do more standards.

I love that song (Harry Connick Jr. does my favorite version of it), and they are totally cute doing it! I would have expected her voice to be a lot higher. Shows what I know.

I like the She and Him stuff I've heard. Like this one. It's cute.

That's really sweet, Erin!

I just took it back to Astoria with taramosalata for dinner. YUMMERS.

Harry Connick's is my favorite version, too. I was OBSESSED with him in high college. I even owned the CD he made when he was a little kid.

Mom! That is so neat.

OMG. Tired. I can't believe it I timed it so I have a day's work tomorrow. Not sure what was going through my head there...

But I have a rental car. Enterprise's cheapest cars are $70/day! Not that I'm paying the daily rate, but motherfucker! That's about 3x the normal. I need my fucking title, and I need a fucking new car. Jesus.

One of my cousins sent me back with a cake to send to someone in the family she likes that I don't. Well, she didn't really send me--she never said anything about it to me at all, or even give me an address to mail it to. My mother insists we can meet in person, but I can't explain to her that I barely see people I like, how am I going to work in seeing someone I've been pointedly avoiding for eight years? Jesus.

Saw mother of second cousin once removed yesterday, and...I don't think I'm going to see her again. I don't think she'll live until the next time I go back to Jamaica. And she's not travelling again. Really sad. I lived with one or another of her kids for quite a while, although we're not related by blood.

Mmmm, I'm making a kind of turkey pot roast dealie and it's filling the house with delicious and homey smells.

I had to alter the recipe a little bit from the version I did last week, but I hope it comes out as well. Just thinking about how good it was is making me salivate.

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

I had an Italian Beef, fries and a Greek Salad. It was good but pot roast sounds so much more tempting.

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

Turkey thighs, which I can only find at Safeway. But it's a lot of meat fairly cheap, has the big thigh bone to make the stock richer and I actually prefer it to breast meat. Two thighs gives me all the meat I need.

Last week I used a veggie stock bouillion cube to start the stock and then added more of the vegetarian French Onion stock I like. I was going to make soup but I kept cooking it down and adding garlic and some brandy and it came out so richly flavorful. Anyway, I started with a can of chicken stock and thinned it out with an extra can of water just to get it going.

Smells good!