Oh, And Another Thing (Or Three)

Since Skye is still off in Hawaii sitting on a beach or something while pondering away at her new year's resolutions, I'm sure, I'll just sneak in another post. She can catch up later. Neener neener. But she's not off the hook about the resolutions. I still want to hear them.

Item 1: I think I've come up with a few good nickname options for my husband Robbie. Because who really wants to use your husband's name on your blog? How boring. He must have some cute pseudonym with a corresponding highly amusing anecdote. So here are your choices thus far:

MAN GENIUS, probably shortened to MG because I'm lazy. Why? Because his favorite tongue-in-cheek (I hope) line is, "I'm a genius and everyone else is stupid." Usually I just smile and nod. I'd call him Boy Genius, but ew.

SHAKE N BAKE. Why? I promise it has nothing to do with Ricky Bobby, although I admit that anything vaguely reminiscent of Will Ferrel gets some funny points just for that. No, this name is based on a conversation from this afternoon.
Him: What can I make for dinner tonight?
Me: How about Shake n Bake chicken?
Him: But I don't know how to do that.
Me: Step 1. Shake. Step 2. Bake.
Him: Shut up.
(By the way, he ended up making a lovely dinner of country fried steak and gravy and veggies, which I'm sure requires more than two steps.)

ROMEO. I promise I'm only being a little sarcastic about this one. See, Robbie is studying for his amateur radio license right now, and he's learning that military alphabet thing. R is Romeo and R is the first letter of his name, so see? This one is my personal favorite, because of the connotations (and, I admit, potential for snarkitude down the line) and also because I thought it up and went, "man, I'm a genius and everyone else is stupid."

Item 2: My New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were both so 5. We went up to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia to celebrate with TyJo (that's my sister Joanna and her boyfriend Tyler, for those of you living under a rock and unaware of the celebrity couple naming phenomenon as in TomKat and Brangelina). We went to a wine tasting and ate a lot of food and watched a lot of bizarre movies, including Ren & Stimpy, my all time favorite bizarre cartoon.

Item 3: You know, since my New Year's Resolutions are all about the writing, it's probably best if I get started. I have a self-imposed deadline of February 28 for finishing Panacea Man, my work in progress. That seems like a long time to me right now, but I realized sometime over the course of the weekend that if I am going to write about really smart futuristic geneticists, perhaps I should know something about genetics. Damn it. So my book requires research, and a-researching I will go. Wish me luck, and if any of the members of our vast readership are, indeed, geneticists, speak now and I will compensate you richly for any tidbits you can give me to make my book sound, uh, smart. And by "compensate you richly," I mean shower you with thanks, promise to acknowledge you when I'm published, and, you know, generally make you feel like you are the awesomest being on the planet.

That's all I got. Take it away, Skye...