I ALMOST forgot to post today

But I didn't! 9:45 pm Pacific Coast Time!

Phillip and I just got home. I ran upstairs saying, "I have to write a post!" and now I am here and I don't know what to write about.

Hmm.

How about how my boy is turning into an interpretive dancer? In church this morning he's standing on my lap looking over my shoulder and waving his arms in front of him, kind of like that weird lady who tours with Bruce Hornsby just to stand on the edge of the stage acting out an acid trip. He's twisting his hands around in front of his face, like he is mesmerized by the amount of wrist fat. It is very strange. I swear, people, every day there is something new. My parents were watching him tonight and my mom told me that he was flapping his arms around while she was feeding him, as if to say, "Woman! My mouth is hanging open! Insert the pureed carrots NOW!" He hasn't done that with me. He also fell asleep on her shoulder at 7:45 and allowed himself to be placed in the crib without a half hour of vigorous annoying rocking. He hasn't done that with me either. Harrumph.

Also? I made butternut squash soup today. From a squash I roasted myself. Now that I have actually done the roasting and soup-making, I have to say it's not quite as difficult as I thought it would be. But still. I am the kind of person who buys the plastic wrapped package of pre-cubed squash and here I am roasting and blending and tasting and adding cinnamon. I am so awesome.

Although I've had better butternut squash soup. I picked this recipe because it had a small list of ingredients (as in, things I already had in my house) and didn't have forty-seven steps. But now that I have roasted my very own squash, I may be able to branch out into multi-stepped cooking. Do you have a good recipe? That will not kill me and/or use every pot in my house?

Speaking of good recipes, Saturday night we went to a Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Potluck Dinner at a friend's house and besides the turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and vegetables and cranberries and pumpkin pie and many bottles of wine, there was butternut squash lasagna. Specifically, this butternut squash lasagna. Oh man. Best thing I have put in my mouth in MONTHS. And this includes the giant handfuls of chocolate chips I've been downing lately. It totally dropped me to 10th place in the Evil Weight Loss Challenge, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. This baby weight is never coming off. (Although I'm sure the fourteen glasses of wine had something to do with it too. Mmm, wine.)

Okay, I'm now going to see if the goths made it through tonight's episode of The Amazing Race without smearing their makeup. I am totally entranced by the goths. I can't be bothered to cover up the zit on my chin most days- I can't IMAGINE going through life making sure my roots are still pink and my mouth is still lined in black.

Comments

[Angela]

Wow, that lasagna sounds delicious and I don't even LIKE butternut squash!

[el-e-e]

Heh. I missed Episode One but watched the Goths last night and was also intrigued. We couldn't believe that this is Season TWELVE. How is that possible? (We've watched every one! How is THAT possible?)