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February 17, 2000
Exploding dishes!
Mary Ellen's Cooking Lesson #1 -- if you've just taken a glass baking dish out of a very hot oven, it's a bad idea to put it straight into the sink and run water into it. Bad, bad idea. The resulting dish explosion is kind of neat, but cleaning up the shards of glass afterward isn't much fun. My poor cat thought she had done something to make the loud noise, even though she was nowhere near the sink at the time.
I came across this article in The Boston Globe this morning -- I was online at the time, ironically enough. While I wouldn't characterize myself as an Internet addict, I do love my email. And I do have some friends who I very rarely talk to, but email often. One of them is actually in Boston, so there's really no excuse not to talk to her in person...
Also in the Globe, I found this very funny story. I was horrified at the idea of "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," so I didn't watch any of it. I'm relieved to know that at least some of the contestants came to their senses during the show, though.
Would you clone your pet? I don't know... as much as I've loved every cat I've ever had, and as much as it hurt when they died, it seems a bit ghoulish to want to clone them. I'm not even going to start on how rotten that would be to do, when there are so many very nice cats and dogs you could adopt.
My neck muscles are inexplicably sore. My leg muscles have been sore all week, but it's a good kind of sore. It's treadmill sore. I'm thinking my neck muscles hurt because of lots of ab crunches last night, although my abdominal muscles aren't sore. I remember now why I've always had such trouble with dieting; I want to see major results in a week. As much as my logical brain might tell me to be reasonable, the irrational majority of my brain wants to see less of me in the mirror. The important thing, I guess, is that I feel pretty good. I have more energy, and I'm not having nearly as much trouble falling asleep. Hopefully, if I keep reminding myself about the good things, I'll actually stick with it this time, instead of going for a few weeks and then quitting.
Posted by Mary Ellen at February 17, 2000 08:55 PM