determination

[fox]

1. When my dad got sick, I pretty much quit paying attention to eating well and you can imagine the consequent effect on my weight and my health (not to mention my credit card balance; ice cream and other junk foods are expensive, yo). It's not a New Year's resolution, because I don't do those, but this morning now that all the traveling and other nonsense are done (next official Big Holiday meal, unless I'm forgetting one: seder, which won't be for months, so I should be able to get in a good groove before then), I'm back on the wagon.

2. Speaking of seder, GC and I were talking about it last night (he has never had a brisket he didn't find stringy, while I've never had one - prepared by my mother or myself - that wasn't fork-tender, so either his standards are several kinds of wiggy or someone is cooking it wrong; he believes, and tells me a butcher advised his mother, that there can also be different cuts of beef called "brisket" and she may be using a tougher one, but I am skeptical about this), and you should have seen the moment when his face lit up and he said "Oh! If you come to my mom's seder, I won't be the youngest child!"

3. I have a lot of tabs open showing me yarn I want to buy. I don't actually need any more yarn. At least with the Fluevog sale thing the boots I want are apparently nonexistent in my size. The yarn is exactly my size. Halp.

Comments

[ellen_fremedon]

I will have to show you the laceweight yarn I bought off starfish. It is the most beautiful leaf-green.

[fox]

yarn yarn yarn yarn yarn. Waaaant. ... Not gonna do it, though. I'm going to be Responsible. (dammit.)

[kass]

you should have seen the moment when his face lit up and he said "Oh! If you come to my mom's seder, I won't be the youngest child!"

♥ ♥ ♥

[fox]

Yes, I thought you'd like that. :-) (The fact that I'm a girl, and therefore can't be the youngest son, was predictably not relevant. Likewise the fact that I'm not Jewish by any but the loosest heritage-based non-practicing standards; Himself is half Jewish as I am, but on his mother's side, so, you know; but he rebelled before his teen years and is not bar mitzvah, so we're neither of us going to be counted in a minyan. Didn't matter. He was delighted at the prospect of not being the youngest, for the first time in forty years. :-D)

[kass]

I would count both of you, assuming you wanted to be counted. I'm just saying. :-)

*hug*

[starfish]

You know I am not going to tell you not to buy yarn.

(I just got some fingering in a colorway called "Set." Because.)