Our best friend Emily, of best-friends-Emily-and-Nicki fame, passed her dissertation defense today. I opened the $120 bottle of Destiny Bay Mystae (2005– frickin' YUMMY) and one of two remaining bottles from our wedding reception, a Gloria Ferrer blanc de noirs sparkling wine. Hello, major drinks before a non-existant dinner. I mean, there were some hors d'eourves, but I didn't have lunch and as notetaker at Emily's defense, didn't get a full bag of the delicious Atkins-farms appetizers. You would not have believed the good tastingness of the butterscotch cookies. Mmmm…

Anyway, Nick and Em and Mary beat it as soon as I put Lex to bed, which was a pity, because I wanted to sing “Mogen David,” which is really called “In the Midnight Choir” by the Gatlin Brothers and is the song that my family sings to commemorate a singular or drunken evening (this was both).

Instead, I called Emily and had her put me on speaker. So, now Nick and Em know the chorus, though I've not heard them sing it. They have been warned that it will be sung again one month and a day from now at a certain luncheon we shall all be attending.

Gonna need a designated driver for that one, I think…

In honor of your special day today, I am wearing the bra that makes my tits look best. Good luck on your dissertation defense!

Some comment spammer posted 75 spam comments to my blog overnight. Seriously. One comment I might have let slide, but 75? Deleted and blocked, baby.

In other news, in last night's D&D, Monstro got me down to zero hit points, but I recovered.

This is the 903rd article I've written since shifting to Blogharbor six years ago. Oh, and have I mentioned that this month is the 15th anniversary of when I started writing my blog? (Yeah, you're right, I have mentioned that. Now i remember.)

Would at least one of the two people who has the first page of AT RISE please send me an email of notes on it? Or at least tell me where it made you laugh out loud? Or, you can tell me that it sucked. Whatever. Just TELL ME. 'K. Thanks.

Monstro is using the D&D Obsidian portal to map out his new novel, which, by the way, has the World's Best Title.

Went to a party in Whoville today. After a week-long virus, at least I look skinny. Seventy degrees and gorgeous outside. One of the homeschooled kids rebuffed Lex not just the one time I saw but two other times, too. We left after 90 minutes as our BK what-we-call “Window” was closing. We timed it well enough that we even fueled up on the way home. A nice outing and now the boys are napping. Aahhhh.