excellent marketing from the pork board

Today I ate a bratwurst, after nearly nine years of being vegetarian. And bought meat. Which I plan on cooking and eating.

No regrets.

(To be fair, I'm buying decently raised organic meat when I can (because most of the reason I got out of eating it was because factory farming disgusted me), and I have to wonder whether my total exhaustion of the past several months was a lack of protein.)

I'd love good meat recipes if you have them, because most of my cookbooks are veggie. :-) (Don't like turkey, am unsure about chicken but could be convinced. And considering where I live, maybe trying seafood would be a fun idea.)

milemarker

Boy, around 3 PM, having been up since 7 AM, climbs in Chris's lap and attempts to get on his shoulder.

Boy: "ni ni."

It took both of us a bit to realize that he was trying to ask to be carried into bed, because that's what happens every night - he gets a shoulder ride into his room and gets dive-bombed into bed. :-D

We are also attempting three words in a string - "more-eat-yeah." And more consistently asking for food rather than screaming. (And I only had to promise 40% of my soul to the devil. Excellent. :-D)

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I am ... very tired. It's been a rough couple of days. Tomorrow I have an appointment at INS to get my biometrics taken. (I do not have the first clue why they need to take them again, considering it's only a replacement green card rather than a new one and my fingerprints haven't changed, but ... *shrug* Needless to say I am not really looking forward to it. :P Am dropping by The Chateau De Wuzzle tomorrow to pick some things up, too.