in the interests of being vaugely religious about this whole thing

I'm posting. It comes with warnings though: I'm in a vaguely maudlin mood. Talking with your stepmother and somehow coming to dissect your current emotional life after four hours will do that to anyone, I think.

So rather than try to rehash all of that sticky, scritchy, and reasonably uncomfortable dissection, here is a list of good things:

• we made chicken fricasse tonight, and it was like a taste of my childhood and oh dear god how rich is that i don't even know all thrown in together. (see recipe below for details - note though, this is in NO way a healthy thing, just GOOD)


• i have new towels, because my stepmother is a towel buying addict - she heard i wanted some and rushed me over to macy's within the hour


• last night we did dinner at the family mexican restaurant for my little sister's birthday, and they had mariachi. and the food has gotten better since the last time i was there.


• in a house where everything is sweetened with diabetic-friendly sweetners, i found the real sugar. life is much better.


• i spent yesterday doing more family visiting - with grandma, and aunt, and then sister, and got immersed in their lives for a change. It was kind of awesome.

( chicken fricasse )