food

following the wildly successful vegetarian thanksgiving activities i had a pizza with cheese on it last night. my body is asking me if i am dumb. answer: yes. the risotto failed but screw difficult, time consuming, expensive rice dishes anyway. the roasted brussels sprouts were phenomenal. it was really bliss and i was happy to be able to bring something new and delicious to the table.

hugo and i have decided that eating with our non-vegetarian clan is not going to happen next year or any year after that. we’ll make our own dinners and show up after the food has been put away. i would love to host the get together at our house and show our people you can have a FEAST without anything needing to be slaughtered. unfortunately, we don’t have anywhere to put people so it will be a while before we can do that.

i talked with hugo about the stomach thing¹ and the consensus is that i should not drink apple juice of any type ever again. watering it down doesn’t help. That brings me to a total of 2 juices that I can drink without gastric upset: orange juice and cranberry juice. Both of which I have to cut with water or…more upset.

cheer

i have a recipe for rice pudding. i have put all of our decorations up. i have celtic christmas music at the ready. i love this season, but not the actual holiday. if you pay attention to the commercialized side of the holiday it never lives up to the hype. christmas as it has been dictated to me always disappoints so this year i am celebrating Yule in my own non-re constructionist way. Oh and send me your address if you’d like a pagan holiday card sent your way. bug [at] feeding the spiders dot com

busy

i took care of some things i was putting off today (a few updates to various websites and paperwork) which has left my conscience 99% guilt free. the 1 percent is the MASSIVE amount of laundry i need to take care of. tomorrow i’m going to make the beds and just get it over with.

also on the agenda is a new theme for FTS. i have pared this one down to almost nothing and it’s still being a douche and taking forever to load. i did several tests tonight with various themes and redoable is definitely bloated. things i like about redoable: sidenotes, 2nd sidebar, clean layout, interesting paragraph classes. things i don’t like: takes forever to load, a little too dark, feels claustrophobic, has various bugs that make things break and look horrible.

coco

she is still in season. i thought it was over so i let her sleep in my room with me (on the floor, thank god) and woke to a bunch of spots on the carpet next to my bed. poor baby. lesson: do not put off having your animals spayed or neutered.

1. perhaps you didn’t hear about this. i woke up the day after thanksgiving with my gut aching and burning. i’ve not had a stomach ache since i was a little kid and it was extremely unpleasant. things i know it wasn’t: gas, heartburn, indigestion, or an extreme need to poop. probably: i should learn to stop drinking garbage.

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