Officially: Happy Fourth of July

 All sorts of thoughtful...
 Not that my thoughts necessarily have any coherent pattern, mmf.

 *pauses for a moment* I am happy. It just hit me, sitting here & importing cd after cd into my iTunes library, and fiddling about on YouBoob. So far I'm up to a total of 1358 songs, and I haven just begun to get my "hard copy" collection imported.
  Hannah & her snappy garters, I forget that I have so much music... and this is just the stuff that I "had" to buy in cd form. Ooof. Some stuff, I  have in my head. Like David Bowie, Simon & Garfunkel, Lucianno, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Beatles, etc.  A lot of music I just never got around to acquiring, and am mostly OK with not having, if I can access it some other way (like last.fm or YouBoob). Lawd, if I ever got my hands on all of the music that I like or wanted... well, I better have won the lottery or a lot of people better have given me presents. Yikes.
 I reall, reallyy wish that I had been able to save even a smidgeon of the music I had when my old computer crashed... Ouch. A lot of that was from the formidable collection that my Ex had. *sigh* total bummer.  Secondary bummer was that the backup that I had of all of it was corrupted. Very. Bad. Joss!

 In Other News, Mum will be coming down tomorrow morning, and we have tentative plans for making either steak & taters or pasta & some right-wicked mushroom, garlic & onion sauce (stay upwind, people!).
  Yet again, I got an unexpected day off (OK, so I simply am a nard & forgot that I get holiday pay for tomorrow, thus making it necessary for my boss to only work me 32 hours). You know, I'm really liking this! I could almost get used to having a day off per week! Aahhh, the luxury! It feels super good. I think... no, I KNOW I was getting burned out & becoming a crabby-assed Raineth. Ughhh. Not good.

 You know what I really want right now? A portabella mushroom & cheddar cheese omelette, with hollandaise sauce. I would also like some bacon the side, fresh hashbrowns, and a little cup of raspberries, blueberries & strawberries, plus a wee chunk of pineapple. Fooey. Me & food, I tell you.

 Maybe bed will have to suffice. Do I want to go to bed? Not really. I'd much rather be talking to someone (gasp). Everyone is asleep. *sigh* Eh. Well. 

 Cheers & All

 Blast. I'm feeling tweakish & in need of a drive... Oh, yikes... I just remembered that I forgot to get gas today. Erm, gas would be good for driving. Including the drive to work, tomorrow.

 The day was good. Rain here, rain there, but it was a sunny & spectacular ending to the day. Mum is now crashed out, and I may be soon to follow. What a party pooper. Not that there's a big party. Far from it. Even the dog is crashed out.

 I cooked pasta & made biscuits (the bread, not the cookie) from scratch, today. I will always prefer to have biscuits that were made by hand... they are even relatively easy to throw together: 
 2 c. flour, 1 TBSP b. powder, 1/2 tsp b. soda, pinch of salt, good pinch of sugar-- mix together; take 4 TBSP butter & work w/ fork or pastry cutter just until cut in; add scant cup of buttermoo. Bring together. Fold dough over a couple of times. Pat out to 1/2" thick, cut out with very small circle cutter, etc. Bake for 10-13 minutes @400 degrees, or until golden brown)  
 They're so much better than the store-bought crap! This recipe does not make a "flaky" biscuit, but more like the type of biscuit you would use for strawberries & pour cream, or perhaps biscuits & gravy. Mmm, biscuits & gravy. Don't I have a roll of sausage in my freezer, somewhere? I typed "biscuit" a lot, just now. Biscuit, biscuit, biscuit. I'm gonna go look for sausage...
*rustles about in freezer, cursing in an unladylike fashion as frozen banana-bread-bananas escape & try to break various toes*
 AHA! I do have sausage. Score one for the Raineth. Sausage now in fridge, to defrost overnight. I can make biscuits & gravy for breaky, tomorrow! Yumms.

OK, I'm pooped & restless. I'd really better be getting some gas in my car... my luck, I'll forget about it right up to about the time I have to leave for work, tomorrow.

 Cheers & All