Weekendy stuff so far

Friday was pretty crazy without Omaha around. Most of my day was filled with housework and running around: we were out of our favorite brand of shampoo, and I needed a bottle of wine because the recipe I'd chosen for dinner needed one cup of red. Someone mentioned to me recently that Bertrice Small had written a "worldbuilt" fantasy and, mirable dictu, days after hearing about it I stumbled across a copy of it at the bookstore that secretly knows a man who secretly knows his romance. It's pretty bad; the woman is clearly at a loss when everything is her responsibility. At least in historicals you can be reassured that the economy worked and everything had a name, even if you didn't know how or what.

I spent the day in a cleaning frenzy. The downstairs bathroom rarely gets used; because it rarely gets used it always falls down the priority list of rooms needing to be cleaned. Because it rarely gets cleaned, it had fallen into a state in which it, uh, rarely got used. Anyway, it's clean again. It wasn't that bad, but it was embarassing. I also managed to vaccum the upstairs carpeting in the hopes that it would moderate my allergies.

I did relaxing things: I made bread, wrote a little, took a long bath, had a BLT for lunch. Mmmm. With horseradish and everything.

I'd whined to Omaha that I was going to be all alone on Friday and she suggested I invite someone over. Since I hadn't seen her in a while I mention lisakit and Omaha said that sounded like a great idea.

Dinner was a very thick home-made beef stew. We needed to use up the carrots and potatoes because we just had too many of them. I put it on top of orzo in the hopes that might encourage Kouryou-chan to like them.

Lisa came over and suffered through the hours of ordinary domesticity: trying to get Kouryou-chan to eat (I swear, that kid lives on breakfast cereal and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches), getting the kids showered and ready for bed, watering the cat, playing a couple rounds of Set with the kids. Dinah took to Lisa with aplomb, but I suspect Lisa is one of those people to whom cats naturally gravitate.

After the kids were in bed, we sat downstairs and watched the MST3K of Hamlet and chatted for a while before we both decided it was late and she should head home. Goddess, it was 12:30! I'm so glad I had at least one visitor. I should invite people over more often. Thanks, Lisa, for coming over and keeping company.

This morning, I have cruel children. I'm tempted to take away Kouryou-chan's TV privileges for the day the next time she wakes me up on a weekend begging me to unlock the television. I did convince her to leave me alone until nine, then got up and made French toast with the leftover homemade bread from yesterday.

Today's Japanese Lesson!

Gotta admit, reading hentai gives you some fun sentences to play with. The scenario is a doctor's office, natch:

あたしの... あそこわ診ほしいの
"My... I need an examination down there, yeah?" The connotation of the の at the end there is something between sultry and unsure. Also, あそこ there is a euphemism for the vulva because it's real meaning is "over there," implying a place not near either the speaker or the listener, which I think shows an interesting cultural tic.

Remember those AIDS prevention ads I pointed to yesterday?

Holy buffalo 2 (This time it's for real!) There's a movie! And it's awesome! (NSFW, Quicktime)