I feel I've earned it. I haven't gushed much here, if at all. But I just gotsta gush. I mean, look at this mug:

It has been on our refrigerator for a while, but it's still good for a smile. (I did not mean for that to rhyme, and won't do that another time again.) Usually, pictures left on a fridge too long become lost in one's periphery. But this one just keeps warming me up every time. This little babe is a heart expander. Like the Grinch's experience at the edge of the cliff, only I'm not a grinch and wouldn't dream of stealing Christmas.

Just when I think I'm already full to the brim in the love stuff, she smiles or laughs or reaches for me and suddenly it feels like someone opened my skull and poured in another gallon of the good stuff.

I know, I know. Nobody likes to hear another parent gush. Every parent gushes on their own time. You can't consume another parent's gushing for too long. It's weird like that. But just so you know, I could go on and on and on...so I'm sparing you from a long, treacly read.

Labels: at home

Back from our trip to San Francisco to visit my cousin and sister-in-law for Thanksgiving, it soon hit me that I'd have to lower significantly my expectations for Western NY sushi, lest I be perpetually disappointed after having eaten at Sushi Bistro. Yea, most of the local joints are fine, and a couple are very good, but I can't use the words excellent, amazing, or incredible to describe them. I just can't. The creativity, presentation, quality, and generosity of cut at Sushi Bistro is beyond anything we've had, so if you ever get thee to Frisco, make sure you stop in. You'll walk out in agreement.

If you dig sushi. If you don't, you probably just haven't been to the right place.

Labels: eats

So, a Chinese sub stalked a fleet of US aircraft carriers, undetected. "It could have escalated." That's freaky enough. But it's the undetected part that's chillsville. China. Big. Mighty. Powerful. Complicated relationship with us. Owns lotsa our debt.

Play nice, mmkay? Just, c'mon. Play nice.

Meanwhile the UN finds plutonium in Iran and now it's not just the U.S. and UK and Israel that doubts that their goals are merely peaceful.

Normally I might be inclined to comment about these things, y'know, offer up my $0.02 to passers by, carve an opinion or two, that sort of thing. But, y'know, lately all I want to do is hang inside with my family and bake Tollhouse cookies. And if that's not cool, then Ppppplllll!

Labels: at home

The big Dem sweep shouldn't be a surprise, but I keep hearing some pundits say that it is. I think I saw ONE ad in the past few months that was NOT an attack on an opponent. Good riddance, political season.

Labels: politics