I'm sorry that your friends are leaving and hope that hole will be filled with new friendships soon.

One of my comic store friends will be available for lunch and cocktails, so I'm hoping that can be a friendship that deepens.

And I've successfully launched a new friendship with my Pilates teacher and we've been hanging out periodically out of the studio and that's been really fun.

I fucking love new friendships!

Happy Birthday amyparker!

New friendships themselves are great, it's the awkward process of getting out and finding people to have them with that I dislike.

I was making spinach dip for the family holiday dinner tonight and discovered that the fresh dill I bought for it was covered in wispy mold. There was none to be had at the grocery store nearest me, so I'm making do with dried dill weed flakes and an extra pouch of vegetable soup seasoning. It's not awful, but not up to my usual standard either.

I'm with you, Matt. (And the whole "What happened? Can they do anything?" thing with a new abled person doesn't make it easier, either.) Which would make abled people think "Well, focus on disabled people, then." Which sounds logical, but you do outnumber us, and you know how they say the hometown crowd is the hardest...double that.(also, pretty much that means I always pay. Which can get harder as we go along, because "Better off," doesn't mean "rich", right?) Mom was very generous so I just signed up for a zoom fiction workshop...I have to decide which thing to show by 1/11.

Indulgent Breakfasts This Morning:

Me: Slice of gingerbread tea cake, coffee, steak and egg breakfast sandwich.

Matilda: One egg in a basket (in the soft thick specialty white bread), bowl of apple slices and blackberries, coffee, apple cider.

Excellent breakfasts! Mine was key lime pie I forgot to bring over to my sister's on Christmas.

Mine was key lime pie I forgot to bring over to my sister's on Christmas.

Oooh, I wouldn't mind that. The bakery that made the yummy key lime tart has closed, and nothing else local is as good.

Happy birthday parker!

Happy Birthday, amyparker!

Happy birthday amyparker.

I made potato soup with the new immersion blender, and it came out well enough that Mom told me I couldn't take the whole remainder back with me.

Happy birthday, amyparker

It's not awful, but not up to my usual standard either.

I make a salad. It's yummy versus healthy so people love it.

And I keep messing with it. Originally it was two salads, then melanged into the Buffista cookbook and now I mess with it to not feel dead inside.