My shuffle today is from my new 234-song "Fall Moods for your Earholes" playlist, because dammit, I'm ready for fall.

Ahh, there's nothing quite like having mountains of leftovers that just won't be worth eating.

On Sunday night I made the risotto-stuffed tomatoes that Smitten Kitchen posted last week and it was a complete fucking disaster.  Not an auspicious start to the week, and it's left me sort of residually grouchy about cooking.

This week's TI has done nothing to stop my panic!

Congratulations on pulling the surprise party off!  Of course, we all should have known it would work out, because that's how things go in hackneyed sitcoms.

Gah!  Wearing shoes in bed?  I'm suddenly really glad I never watched this show, because that would have made me crazy.

Siberian tiger is a great choice!  I've read in a few places that they make the most terrifying noise right before they're going to attack you, which I can only imagine is not unlike the fireswamp in "Princess Bride".  Only the tiger sound is more like a swift exhale that sort of turns the surrounding area completely…

We'll give you free room and board if you'll spend all day guarding the fruit trees from the squirrels.

Liked for "Il Cielo in Una Stanza".  That's one of my favorite songs ever.

@avclub-563f46b363c65f90644e0c38c17fcde2:disqus  That's exactly what we needed!

Aw, bummer.  Good luck — I hope everything works out for you.

My dad also insisted he'd seen a ghost once.  He said he was at an angsty sort of crossroads time in his young-adult life, juggling some major decisions, and he saw the ghost of his best friend's grandmother when he was out and about one day.  He'd been pretty close with her when she was alive, and would often go to…

No, no!  I made little red felt devil horns that then attached with safety pins onto hats.  I can't even imagine all the gussets and shaping and horn-turning one would have to do to make a one-piece horned hat…

@LJo1:disqus Yeah, it's a lot.  We have two shared, one family-sized and one individual-sized.  A lot of this stuff is getting frozen or canned.  Which means having to spend very little time in the kitchen in the winter, so yeah, a lot of time is spent there now, but I'm an ant, not a grasshopper!

Congratulations!  You're a BEAST!

My overhead cabinets are covered in more magnets than I can count.
Corkboard has a mishmash of pig-themed postcards, pictures of my family, pictures of my cats, and New Yorker cartoons.
Desk decor is my iPig iPod speaker dock, some knick-knacks from various coworkers' trips to China and India, pens filling a freebie mug…

Good luck with the party!!  I've got a hot weekend of going to Costco to load up on toilet paper and laundry detergent on tap.  Because we know how to live at Casa n Dick.

Are you KIDDING?  How is that puppy even real?  SO CUTE!

Awww, Afghan hounds are so cute!  I almost never see them, though.  I used to live in a small Ivy-league town (I like how I'm trying to keep it vague, but only one of the Ivies is in a small town.  Hmm… rhymes with "Blinceton" maybe?) and there was an elderly professorial couple that lived on my street that had an…

I wish I could have one of those adorable little friendly foxes that study in Russia claims to have bred.  Foxes are so cute!  And I'm sure it and my five cats would be the very best of friends!  And the fact that I have no patience for dog care wouldn't be a problem at all!