Mlitiagrl is on her way to Canada this morning for a week-long trip to visit her Canadian boy.
PhysOrg and I are also heading out shortly to go visit Mr. Guff, who is by himself at the moment since Artaban has gone to visit family in Thailand. We’re looking forward to a weekend of movies and probably some Arkham Horror. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Hooray, PhysOrg was able to export all of my old LiveJournal posts to this new site (hence all the previous “posted by PhysOrg” entries)!
Welcome to my new blog.
Hopefully I will finish sorting through all of my old entries tonight so that I can let people know about this new location.
It has been a great weekend, which is good because the next few weeks at work are probably going to be stressful for a multitude of reasons I would rather not divulge here.
PhysOrg’s family had a celebration at his sister’s house Friday night in honor of homecomings, anniversaries, and birthdays. I think they hold the world’s record for exciting things that happen in March. There were delicious appetizers, enchiladas, and cheesecake. The company was great and it was good to catch up with people. What more could you ask for?
We spent a lot of Saturday accomplishing things with our druids in WoW and are probably doing more of the same tonight.
In the meantime, today we shopped and I have made two cakes. The first was a Godiva Chocolate Cake with chocolate shavings and purple glitter sprinkles for PhysOrg’s birthday (according to my notes, I first made the Godiva Chocolate Cake in 2004, also for his birthday). The second was a pound cake, which somehow fell into the oven a little later when I realized I had eggs and buttermilk that I needed to use up and extra Godiva frosting that could substitute for Nutella. Pound cake + chocolate spread is very yummy.
I would link the recipe for the Godiva Chocolate Cake, but my Google skills aren’t working well today. I am pretty sure I found it on the Internet, though, way back in 2004. PhysOrg’s mom is responsible for the pound cake recipe, so no link for that one either.
I think that we are technically and morally obliged to skip Easter goodies after this, but I think there’s a pretty LOW chance of us skipping any goodies EVER.
I saw a very cute Easter bunny cake at Williams-Sonoma on Saturday, but that would mean buying a bunny shaped pan and probably some fancy decorating tools … I think I could justify it if I had a small kid … I remember my mom making a bunny cake at least once.
Flipping channels the other night, we caught a couple of minutes of a History Channel program about the Jonestown tragedy. I don’t remember it being in the news because I was very small when it happened, so I figured out what it was through second hand information I have heard over the years. Specifically, when the Waco siege took place, people kept referring to Jonestown.
It made me start thinking a little about communes, particularly since Warren Jeffs and his sect have been in the news quite a bit the past couple of years.
High profile communes nowadays tend to be religious, extreme, and potentially involved in illicit and/or illegal activity.
Communes kind of have a bad rep. Yet, they are also steeped in a certain amount of romanticism. When we think of communes, maybe we think of the 60s. Or maybe we just think of collective farms back in the days of the Soviet Union. Actually, I am not too sure what we think of. These are my associations.
I have been thinking that there are some very simple, practical reasons that communes are not the social arrangements most people want to live in:
1) We may have forgotten how it feels to have extended family clustered around us, piling generations upon generations, but it couldn’t have been too good. It was *economically expedient* in the past, but as soon as couples could afford to set up their own households, they did, even if it was a stone’s throw down the road. Our current modern thought suggests that there are some problems with the nuclear family in the United States, but there are also legitimate reasons that this has become such a popular social structure. Family, oh family. There is really so much that can be said about family.
2) The more people, the more mess you have. You need a very organized division of labor to run a commune. Or a few extremely patient people.
3) Principles and opinions. Even the best-intentioned commune can only survive a limited amount of dissent. Throw a bunch of mostly-agreeable, mostly-agreeing people together in a room and see how long it takes before you have a disagreement. If nothing else, personalities will chafe and heads will eventually butt.
Happy Pi Day! Hope everyone out there takes a break and thinks about circles for a bit. Where would we be without circles? And mathematical constants? And ratios? And Albert Einstein (according to the Pi Day wiki, today is also his birthday)?
In celebration, we’re having pizza and a couple of pies for dessert (French Silk and Key Lime).
Yay, excess! (And, er, leftovers.)
It must take a special kind of courage to love so much when you have so little hope.
I wonder if all of our modern options and technologies desensitize us a little to the choices some parents make.
For some reason, the chili in my uncooked breakfast bar is a little disconcerting today.
As per PhysOrg’s phone call to Charter yesterday, our cable internet problems were supposed to be resolved, but this morning browsing is awfully slow again. Well, at least we were able to run a five-man last night without problems.
My phone seems to be over its refusal-to-alarm problem that set in after the time change. Although the time updated automatically, some virtual wire must have been crossed because it did not alarm Monday morning at my usual wake up time, or at all. After resetting the alarm time, it worked fine. Weird-o. Did anybody else have weird phone/computer/gadget issues relating to the early shift to Daylight Savings this year?
Ergh, I somehow missed the premiere of “The Riches” last night. For all I know, it may have been on in the background behind me as we were running LBRS. But we also went to bed at 10, so I think we missed it. We seem to catch most cool shows in re-runs, anyway. But tonight– “The Closer”! Hopefully, we will have our tacos together by then.
So don’t forget what tomorrow is, folks. Support your local bakery/baker and whatnot.
Friday night I saw Talley’s Folly at the Overture Center with PhysOrg and Terry. I didn’t know it when I saw it, but it’s the second of three Lanford Wilson plays that revolve around the same family.
I enjoyed it– essentially it was James Ridge and Colleen Madden playing characters who are having a ninety minute relationship conversation/struggle. That’s a really sparse way of putting it, but it was a really nice, compact, intimate, difficult story.
The play is running through April 1st.
I am doing something that my mother would pretend to disapprove of. I am eating carrot cake for breakfast.
PhysOrg visited his family Thursday night and his mom sent a huge chunk of freshly-baked carrot cake back with him.
There are three reasons that carrot cake still existed in our refrigerator by Sunday morning:
1) Mlitiagrl has been sick with cold/flu (and limiting sweets)
2) I was not home much yesterday or Friday night
3) PhysOrg thinks carrot cake should be eaten at his mother’s house (or has designated this chunk of carrot cake as “the girls’ carrot cake”)
Mmmm, carrot cake. Well, it was really fantastic, but now it has disappeared!
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