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I'm not sure why she's compelled to do this, but Mum likes to make life as hard as possible for herself by 1. insisting that everyone who comes to our house is judging her based on its cleanliness, 2. insisting that it's not really a holiday unless we have Decorated Properly up to and including tablecloths and 3. insisting that we must cook "special recipes" for holidays.

Now, I'm all for special recipes and trying new things, but I'm for doing it at times when there isn't a pre-existing social pressure to Make The Day Perfect. It's a lot easier to say "Wow, that was gross" on Tuesday than it is on say, Independence Day. And granted, some of the Special Recipes we have tried on holidays have come out awesome -- herb roasted turkey breast and stuffing "muffins" are a staple in our house after The Tastiest Thanksgiving Ever -- but I'm really, truly, and deeply skeptical that "coffee rubbed" steaks are going to taste at all good in any way. Coffee grounds, within my sphere of experience, are the things you throw out after pouring hot water through them. They are not to be mixed with salt and brown sugar and rubbed on steak.

But we're doing up hot dogs, too, so I reckon I can slip some Coffee Grounds Steak to Dog under the table and just eat all the hot dogs. In the meantime, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean (in preparation for next week's sequel premier) and I read some Letters of Benjamin Franklin and now the Italy-Germany game is on. Soon we're going to whip up some cannolis. It's a veritable festival of the melting pot!

Hey, so Rainette, what're you going to do if it's France and Germany for the cup this year? I suppose you just cheer whenever anyone scores and swear at the winners in the opposite language?

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And now it's raining. God, I hope it rains all night; not only am I totally unenthusiastic about setting off fireworks but that means I can curl up in my bed with the rain pouring down outside and have like...an Ouran marathon or maybe watch some MST3K downloads or something.

In less happy news, I have a bug bite the size of a quarter just above my wrist. Yesterday it was swollen and white and shaped like a question mark. Mum keeps subtly checking to make sure there's no streaking, because apparently I'm growing some kind of ALIEN POD in my right arm.

Oh, and I almost forgot -- I have my first assignments for my Fandomtalk recaps. I will be recapping three episodes of this summer's miniseries "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" airing Tuesday nights on TNT: Battleground (airing July 12), The End of the Whole Mess (airing July 19), and The Road Virus Heads North, which IRONICALLY will be airing July 26, while I'm traveling. I'll be linking to my recaps as they go up. :)