I've been doing so well lately, really . . .

[pegkerr]

but last night, I was seized by an overwhelming feeling of, 'I'm so goddamned tired of being the grownup."

I wanted to do nothing but eat tortilla chips and drink Bailey's. Well, maybe not together. And to read junk.

I told the girls to make their own dinner. I ate a few Tortilla chips but managed to stop myself before the damage was too great. Then I made homemade butterscotch pudding for my dinner and retired to the bathtub. Got to bed at 9:30 p.m.

kijjohnson has instituted KDAW=ON, (Kitten Down a Well Alert = ON) meaning, unless a kitten has fallen down a well and been rescued, she doesn't want to hear about it. I created a "kitten down a well alert" icon for her:



Given the state of the nation and the way I felt last night, I can certainly understand the appeal of this idea.

Comments

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

What a lovely way to spend the evening. One of the nicest things, I found, about raising a daughter (instead of, say, pets or houseplants) was that at some point she could and would feed herself. About a year thereafter, she was willing and able to feed me on occasion.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I told the girls to make their own dinner. I ate a few Tortilla chips but managed to stop myself before the damage was too great. Then I made homemade butterscotch pudding for my dinner and retired to the bathtub. Got to bed at 9:30 p.m.


And did the world end?

Well done, you.

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I was SO TIRED last night after not sleeping well, and I took a bath, and it was really nice....and then I went to Starbucks with Lindsay and stayed up reading the last Darcy book. Staying up late when I know I should go to bed always feels like rebellion to me, but it's always the rebellion that just kills me the next day.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Which Darcy book? These Three Remain? I just literally THIRTY SECONDS AGO added it to my Amazon wish list, before I saw your comment. What do you think of it?

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Umm, well, I read over 200 pages yesterday. have you read the others in the trilogy? Having spent a lot of time reading AWFUL Jane Austen knockoffs this year, Pamela Aiden's trilogy is my number one recommended book of the year. I have had every P&P fan I know read it. My friend in France read it on the train to Lourdes, and then re-read it on the train back. Everyone who I have given it to or persuaded to buy it really liked it. The first one is called "An Assembly Such As This" the second is called "Duty and Desire" and then the third is (obviously) "These Three Remain".

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like it extremely well too: I read most of the trilogy on the net before it was published, up to the point she wasn't updating it anymore and I was rather ticked when she didn't finish it--until I realized that was because she was getting it published. I just need to get around to purchasing my copy (it was one of the few fanfic novels I had actually printed out). I am curious to see how she handles the ending.

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

way to kick it old school Peg! I think it's been polished up some since it was online, but so far it's shaping up well

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Have you run into the Laura Louise and Susan Kaye Persuasion novels, telling the story from Frederick Wentworth's point of view? Website here. They, too, are excellent, and I see they have also been accepted for publication. So it looks as though they have taken them down. See here.

They they collaborated on Love Suffers Long and Is Kind, postulating that Bentwick did NOT offer for Louisa Musgrove, and what would happen then? Very well done. Sequel follows in Mercy's Embrace, which follows Anne's sister Elizabeth's story.

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

sweet! Thanks Peg!

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

Susan Kaye? The same Susan Kaye who wrote Phantom? In which case, I must read this book once it is published. :D

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

No, that is a different writer, Susan "K-A-Y" (no "E").

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I drink Merry's; it's much cheaper than Bailey's, and to me it tastes as good. Remember, we can drink either one only because we're the grown-up. It has its rewards.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Actually, the last bottle I bought was Merry's, too. I just still think of it as Bailey's.

And yeah. [Grownup] rank hath its privileges.

[aome.livejournal.com]

I congratulate you! Sounds like an excellent way to spend the evening. Your needs deserve to be catered to, too. Just curious - when left to fend for themselves, what do your girls cook?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Need you even ASK? White pasta.

Fiona put butter and parmesan on hers, Delia used Alfredo sauce. I told them they had to have either a fruit or vegetable. I believe they resorted to carrot sticks.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Hey, a vegetable is a vegetable. :) And that was something I took with me, btw, as a continuation of your "independence" post. When I went to college, I took with me my mother's repeated admonitions that lunch/dinner needed a protein, a fruit and/or a vegetable, and that breakfast shouldn't generally be too sugary (she taught me to read labels and be aware of what was okay and what wasn't). Didn't matter WHAT provided those nutrients, as long as they were in there. If it meant supplementing pasta with peanut butter and crackers, and carrot sticks, so be it.

Btw, that Bento box the other day looked yummy.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

Do your girls like V8 juice? I believe a glass counts as a serving of vegetables.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Ooh, homemade butterscotch pudding. Is that as fabulous as it sounds?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

Take a cup and a half of milk (that's the amount I use). Add either 1/2 beaten egg OR the equivalent amount of Egg Beaters (which is what I usually use, but I didn't have any on hand). Add 1 1/2 TB cornstarch and stir. Microwave at one minute intervals, stirring with a whisk between each minute, until thickened. Pour into a bowl, throw in butterscotch chips to taste, stir them in as they melt. I like to eat it hot.

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Hey, I even have some really good butterscotch chips I need to do something with.... I think I'll make this soon.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If you do, let me know what you think of it!

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

How do you put in half a beaten egg? How many butterscotch chips? I'm assuming somewhere between 1 and 1,000...

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Beat the egg and then measure it and put in half. Usually, I just eyeball it. A rough estimate is okay--if you are a little off it will only affect the pudding by making it more or less thick.

As for how many butterscotch chips, that is purely a matter of personal taste, i.e., how butterscotch-y you like your pudding. I generally will put in a couple of tablespoons worth, but just experiment. You can always add more!

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

*manically writes down* I can EAT this....YAH!

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Think of it as a mental health holiday. We all need them. Yesterday all I did was sit on the couch and watch "St. Elsewhere" on DVD. 'Twas nice. I would have eaten pudding had I had any (which would have been perfect, too, since I could only eat soft foods yesterday). But I've been known to have Cherry Garcia for dinner. We all need a break now and then.