shanmonster | Love and Marriage

Baby, it's cold outside! I walked to a downtown restaurant this morning to attend a birthday/anniversary/Valentine's lunch with some friends, only to have the restaurant too full of folks. So we walked another block and went to The Snooty Fox, instead. I ordered a Canandian Baked Bread (yes, that's how it's spelled in the menu) and a BLT. I ended up taking the BLT to school, afterwards. The Canandian bread and the homefries that came with my sandwich were sufficient to fill me up.

I spent the day soldering fruitlessly, then deciding to do something much easier which also happens to look even better than my original idea, yet still fit within the parameters of my original design. Wow! Instead of soldering half jumprings all around a big hunk of cast silver, I instead soldered on a sheet of Nu-gold, then cut away all the bits I didn't want. I'm left with a two-toned ring which follows my design line much better. Hoorah for ingenuity!

While finishing up, I finished listening to Harry Kemelman's Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red. The Rabbi David Small series is quite enjoyable. Although it's light reading (or listening, in my case), it's also quite educational, to a Gentile like myself. Murders are solved through rabbinical methods. It's a bit like Matlock with a yarmulke.

Yesterday, f00dave gave me a special treat: breakfast in bed. This is practically unheard of, in this household! I had one of my absolute favourite breakfasts: fresh strawberries with sugar and thick cream, and a cup of tea. Mmmm.... Afterwards, I finished reading Robin Hobb's Fool's Fate, which, I believe, quite neatly completes the series about Fitz and the Fool. If I'm wrong, please let me know. I feel compelled to read more. In the meantime, I've finally begun reading Irvine Welsh's Porno. I've only just begun, and it's just as vulgar as I thought it would be.

I realize I'm a day late for expressing my fond, loving wishes to you, but Happy Dead Murdered Saint Day! I have a special card just for you.

Now, I know most guys think that Valentine's Day caters much more towards women than men, but did you know there is a holiday especially for them? I'm waiting for it to catch on, for surely it will. It's Steak and Blowjob Day, and it's this March 20. Let the Hallmark cards begin....

And now, for your regularly-scheduled happy-happy-joy-joy linkage!

A Family Proposal: I suspect this is a reinterpretation of the classic Swift satire, but I may be mistaken. I really haven't read it in detail quite enough. But what I have read is quite intriguing--stuff like: "When the children reach 18 years of age, I would like for each of them to have 2 children with a mate selected by me," "I insist that corrective lens for nearsightedness not be put on any of my children (before adulthood)," and "I would like to have 17 children. Why 17? I don't know. It just seems like a good number to have." So, ladies, are you interested? No? Well, take a look at his erotica photos and guess again.

Vivica's Anal Bottle Rocket: Only work-safe if your boss and co-workers don't mind seeing a stupid, stupid woman launching a rocket out of her bung. She's a Darwin Award-winner in the making, I suspect.

And, because Karla keeps seeing coprophilia where I don't, check out this essay on Coprophagy (thanks, Daze Reader).