Six short blips, one really long post.

Mmm...
I'm feeling very content right now. I have a pot roast simmering away in the kitchen, filling the house with it's delicious pot-roasty smells (think pork, soy sauce, black vinegar, ginger, garlic, etc.), and a husband soaking away in the tub after a stressful day at work, filling the house with his latest favorite music (think Vampire Weekend).

I love how quiet and still our house is during the day when I'm the only one here, but I also love how, as soon as he comes home, everything seems to come together and suddenly dinner is done cooking, music (or tv) is on, and I have this whole, other person with me that I can interact with, and it all feels so warm and lively. My life is teh good.

Yar.
I use gmail and I love it, but I access it through entourage, because...I just do. I hate checking my mail in my browser, and entourage is the email client I like best. Sooo...last year at some point gmail added the option of accessing my email via IMAP instead of POP, but I chose not to make the switch at the time, because I'm lazy. And I knew I'd have to import aaalll my shitty old mail aaalll over again, and resort everything.

So I just continued on without IMAP, allowing myself to accumulate even more crap in my gmail inbox.

Now that I'm on a new computer, I thought...eh...why not. Might as well switch. It's really cool how anything I read/delete/whatever in entourage is affected the same way in gmail, but here's what sucks:

As of right now, after deleting hundreds and hundreds of emails, I still have 3,071 emails in my inbox. A lot of them are crap that will be deleted as unread, but peppered throughout the pages and pages of random notifications, sale alerts, surveys, and whateva, are important receipts and other information, as well as meaningful emails from ♥loved ones♥. So THAT sucks. On top of that, because I'm now using IMAP (which is still toootally awesome; no complaints), *each time* I delete an email in entourage, gmail has to search for it and delete it as well. It's nice to be cleaning out my inbox fer realz instead of pretending to clean it out but really only getting rid of things in entourage, but still. It's taking forevs.

Woohoo!
I am totally, completely addicted to (fluff)Friends. Those of you who have seen this app and pooh-poohed it were right to do so. It's 3,000% ghay. But still...I love it. I mean...there are hearts, unicorns, flowers, and vicious, cut-throat competitions! What's not to love??? Right now they're doing an easter egg hunt, and I'm so totally going to collect as many eggs as I fraking can. (Fraking, because it's almost time for ♥BSG!!!♥)

*cleeek*
My new computer is much faster than my old one, and therefore importing & uploading photos from my camera is no longer an epic task. So I'm trying to both take more picshurs, and upload them more promptly. We'll see how well I keep this up, but for now things are pretty up to date.

*chomp*
As you can tell from my recent photos, I've been eating food lately. I often eat food. It's a thing I do. I've also been looking for an excuse to talk about food more, and I think I've found one. I *thought* I'd found one last year when I finally got around to registering at allrecipes, but then I quickly learned that allrecipes doesn't allow you to post recipes yourself; you have to submit them, and once they're approved, they're reformatted by someone on their staff and THEN posted. Which is funny to me, because a lot of the recipes on that site are pretty disgusting. Or include typos that, if not recognized by the reader, would drastically alter the outcome of the recipe. Stupid.

I still use allrecipes a lot, but only to look through other people's recipes, not to post my own. I thought for awhile that I might start a food blog, but that never happened. Well, I started it, but then stopped before I even told anyone about it. Then, after I'd given up on the idea entirely, I came across OSF. This site still seems a little rough, and is MUCH smaller than allrecipes, but there are a lot of things I like about it so far.

I haven't added any recipes yet because I have to actually figure out how to write them down. Which means thinking about measurements and times and stuff, which I haven't really done much of, oddly enough. Or maybe it's not that odd...I don't know. You just add some of this, smell it, taste it, add some of that, cook until done. The end. But it's been really fun having to be more precise, and hopefully I'l have bothered to figure out a whole recipe sometime soon, and I'll post it, and the world will bask in my culinary genius. And in Brett's too, since most of our recipes are a team effort. YAY!

*ssshhhuuuuummmmm*
FYI: THAT is the sound a lightsaber makes. Brett says, "bewvvvvvvvvvvvv," but I disagree. Anyway, so we were in the pet section at the grocery store last weekend, and I found a laser pointer cat toy. It can make different shapes, one of which is a mouse, but the cats seem to like it best just as the standard pointer. They've both been chasing it around like crazy; I've never seen them this worked up over ANY toy before. And Mordechai (our husky little lay-about) has probably gotten more exercise in the last two days than he has in his WHOLE LIFE prior to this. Since they can't snuggle with it, lick it to death, or chew it's eyes off, it won't exactly replace their other toys. Still though, at $5 I think it was an AWESOME deal.