After waxing philosiphical, I have to take a moment and pout.

I had this absolutely fantastic weekend!

But I had to go back to to work today...

Now... for the shout.

apotropaic!

I have a new cookbook.

It has a healthy section of vegetarian main dishes...

When you coming over for dinner again? :)

Raen.

Tonight begins a four day weekend. Yay! Many moons ago, I looked at last_bastion and said, "I'm not working on my birthday. How 'bout we make it a long weekend?" The long weekend mutated into four days... and I'm going to absorb every piece of it.

But... we're planning on doing stuff.

Movie. Rocky Mountain National Park. Wolf preserve. *smiles* My honey loves to spoil me, and after my last birthday tanked in the middle when I got sick, it'll be nice to have the extended weekend and the good time.

For chapel_of_words, we watched No Country for Old Men finally. And... I really enjoyed it. It had similar qualities of nonsequitor to There Will Be Blood, but without the jarring lack of cohesion. *smiles* last_bastion and I have spent a good deal of time _quoting_ There Will Be Blood, though, so I guess we didn't dislike it that much.

And, for more in the realm of the strange and random, last_bastion and I had an interesting encounter while walking the other day. Its strange how election season grabs hold of people... we had a random little old lady carrying signs for a local Democrat stop us to ask which way we were voting. The conversation looped in many directions. She was nothing but polite, and friendly, and we walked away from it smiling. Given our recent life, it was a strangely adult conversation that didn't include a computer as an interface.

I love my many friends... but I miss seeing all of you face to face. *smiles* I miss talking, and sharing food, and laughing, and seeing all of your expressions while doing it. Computers are great, but they're no replacement for being in the same space and experiencing the energy radiating from another human being.

Anyway... much love to everyone. *hugs around*

I continue to be very thankful to cricketbug for the very useful information about mustard and burns. This weekend, while cooking dinner, I managed to slosh full on boiling water onto my hand.

Ow...

A couple of minutes of cold water wash, followed by lots of mustard, and a couple of hours later my hand was much happier.

In other news, had a good weekend in general. Went down to see mentalgremlin, made it up to Boulder on Saturday, had dinner with a couple of friends, and even made a new friend... and then went to see Hancock on Sunday.

Go see Hancock... all of the stuff from the preview is in the first ten to fifteen minutes of the movie... and its a _good_ thing. Although the movie may not be what you'd expect, it was still really good.

On the downside, Iggy's sick. His nose is swollen, he's congested, and he's attempting to sneeze but not quite pulling it off. He's also _very_ prone to cuddling. While he's at the oncologyst today they're going to do a chest x-ray and see how he's doing. Fortunately, today's not a treatment day... its a blood test day.

Foodwise, I misbehaved most of last week and the weekend. That's okay, though... I figure I deserved the break from being so stringently good. This week, its back on the wagon while last_bastion and I see if we can make that effort to get back into the workout routine.

*smiles* I'm not mad enough at myself to motivate completely into it yet... an that 5am start time he's talking about could prove problematic. Case in point, our alarm started going off this morning at 5:30. I turned it off, knowing that we had to get the cat to the vet, got up, and then promptly crawled back into bed when last_bastion wasn't quite getting up quickly enough.

I am not a morning person.

Now, its back to the grind. *smiles*

Raen.