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Huh, I guess I am not very good at posting on Leap Day, historically - despite having shared my life with people online for close to three decades now, I only have one Facebook memory on a Leap Day (and not even by me at that, tagged by bitty), and zero public social media or blog posts on a Leap Day AFAICT. (Twitter and Instagram do not make it easy to navigate your archives.) So to make up for that, here's my history of Leap Days as far back as I have any kind of records and/or memories that have persisted to the present day. It will surprise nobody that what I ate made it into the record at least half the time 😁

( memory hole )

2004: It was a Sunday, and I was both performing at Carnegie Hall and meeting noghri's mother for the first time (🔒). (Both our families were meeting because my parents flew out to see me perform! In case anyone wondered why I was an utter harried mess at the time?) There was dim sum and The Lion King on Broadway as well! And then post-concert chocolate cake with mamdvany and elemmire7 and fractalspackle :)

( okay more memory hole )

So I guess that makes today my 12th Leap Day and my first fully-pandemic Leap Day, as 2020 was basically just before it all went to hell. Nothing special planned; need to do a bunch of laundry and write a newsletter and get ready for Saturday's songwriting retreat. I feel like I should hunt down some Quantum Leap and watch a good episode or something.

Any of you all doing anything special today? Have any traditions you observe for Leap Day?

Why I am now standing at the stove instead of watching the game:

Bottom of the 7th: I'm making peach chutney. I've set a timer. Mighty Mite at the plate, men on first and third. Petey gets a nice single into left and drives in a run. The timer goes off. Papi takes a strike. I have to go rescue my chutney before it burns. I walk to the stove, and as soon as I pick up my spatula, hyounpark is all, "DEEP RIGHT! DEEP RIGHT!" Papi hit a homer!

Bottom of the 8th: The chutney has cooled. I go back up to the stove to pack it up. JD Drew hits a homer!

UM YOU GUYS I'M NOT THAT SUPERSTITIOUS BUT, BUT, BUT.

AND THEN COCO CRISP DROVE KOTSAY IN WHEN I WENT TO STIR THE CHOCOLATE POT DE CREME OMFG

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( hungry mother is YUM OMG )

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( you spoony bard, or why I am always the little spoon )

just checking in. miscellanea.

1. new york tap water unkosher? therefore, since new york bagels are said to taste/feel unique due to the water supply used to make them, does that mean that new york bagels are ... unkosher? *gasp*

2. my left thumb is sore. i'm still not a tomboy, nor an athlete. but i do own a softball glove now.

3. ( i accidentally threw away steve's trash can this weekend. )

yeah, i'm sure he'll be teasing me about that for yoinks to come. :P

4. happy birthday, stranger78! and congratulations on graduating :) congratulations to everybody (and good lord, do i mean everybody!) who graduated this year - theconvictor, geebee_x, quantumsoftshoe, kallmir2000, cavedwellers, belladonna, kudzita and anybody else i'm blanking on. which apparently was a bucketload of you, because not only did i forget to mention kudzita and cantspell, i forgot to mention noghri. and i even WENT to his graduation last weekend. which i haven't gotten around to writing a proper posted entry about, despite having now met both his aunts and his sister, and the whole day coming off rather well ...