What happened to my weekend?

It sure doesn't feel like I got much of one, that's for sure.

Two new articles up at Examiner, including a stunted slide show.  What is it about my slide shows that makes the publisher want to swallwo them whole?  I don't know what the deal is with the flaky photo server, either, but I'm starting to take it personally.

Anyway, an article about Slow Food, including a tiny little peep at the McDonald's near Piazza di Spagna, and a yummy recipe for Portuguese roasted pork loin, or Lombo de Porco Assado.

The hubster is at darts, so I'm going to grab the remote whilst I can!

Another day, another headache.

We got blown away at darts last night.  Again.  Of course, when it happens every week, it's not really news, is it?

Woke up this morning to find three articles published at AC:  self acupressure to induce labor,  top twitter tips for beginner tweeters and the one on stem cell transplants to treat MS I mentioned before.  I guess it doesn't matter how far apart you space your submissions-- they all get published at the same time anyway, so why bother trying?

Tried to catch up on my reading some, too.  I made a dent in it, but there's still plenty left.  I need to take a break from it for a while so I can write and submit the my last two recipes to the Examiner Fall Cookbook.  Guess I should get started on that now.

Oh, and my indigestion is back, despite taking my nexxium. Yipee.

O for a place in the sun!

Another cloudy day, and I'm longing for the sun. Oddly enough, even though we haven't seen the sun in (what seems like) weeks, my hibiscus is loving it.  It looks incongruous, with all those bright red blooms.

Did two medical articles for AC yesterday, although neither one has been published yet.  One is on acupressure, and the other is on stem cell transplantation therapy for relapsing-remitting MS treatment, which is a fascinating topic.  Really!

Did two for my ethnic foods page so far this week: the best middle eastern and mediterranean markets in Dallas, and one on a french culture in Dallas event, complete with wine and cheese.  And you know how much I love wine and cheese.

DH is not having the best day ever.  Consequently, neither is the cat.  She ought to be thanking her lucky stars-- and me!-- that she's still alive (actually she ought to be doing that every day) but I'm pretty sure she's sulking in the bedroom because I've locked her in.

O well.  Enough of this.  Back to work.

Not quite perky.

But not quite dead, either. I think I'm getting over the flu or plague or whatever it was that's been making my life miserable lately. It's about time, too-- I've fallen way behind on everything in the last few days.

You might think I use this blog only for bitching, but that's not always true. On the bright side, I won a Rising Star Award from Associated Content and over at examiner.com I've been made a Featured Examiner for Dallas. Oh, and I ended up getting the full $25 for  this article at AC.  Things are looking up!

I'm about to write an article on French food, which will make a nice change from the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean ethnic food kick I've been on lately.  Not that it hasn't been fun: aside from the usual recipes, I've published a comprehensive guide to the best Middle Eastern grocery stores and Mediterranean markets in Dallas, plus an awesome bit of food porn slash cuisine guide  that I'm pretty proud of.  Check it out!

Monday, monday.

This is annoying: Associated Content has not been posting links on twitter as my articles are published.  There are at least two articles for Breast Cancer Awareness Month that I've published that haven't been sent out for a start:  alternative herbal remedies for chemotherapy side effects, and one about the common breast cancer drugs Tamoxifen and raloxifene, which are SERMS and commonly prescribed for ER-positive breast cancer tumors.  It's annoying because it means less pvs (and therefore money) for me, and also because I think these articles could help a lot of people.

In other news, I'm still waiting to hear back on my $25 AC call for content article.  It sounds like everybody else has heard back and been published, but not me!  I suppose I should be used to it by now. (sigh)

It's a rainy cold Monday here in the big D, perfect for writing.  Which is exactly what I was doing until DH discovered that worms have been eating my heirloom tomatoes, which necessitated a writing break  to spray those suckers down, as well as the rest of my tomato plants.  Peppers and pomegranates, too: basically whatever looked like it might be yummy to bastard bugs.  Also, I noticed that my basil seems to have come down with some sort of fungus.  I'm blaming that one on too much rain.

Finally, over on Examiner.com, I'm getting good response on my Dallas Ethnic Foods Examiner gig.  I wrote an article on my recipe for Warm Patlican Salatasi that has been well recieved, and readers loved the pictures accompanying my article on the Lebanese Food Festival so much that I'm working on a slide show of middle eastern food.  In fact, I suppose I should get back to it now.

Very verde.

It's raining again.  Or, rather, it was when I started this post, in the blogger widget back on my Google homepage.  No matter:  it will rain again soon, just like it has for the past three days.  Or is it four?

I don't know if it's because of the rain or just normal fall migration, but all the hummingbird activity is making our backyard look like O'Hare.  Or the Death Star-- I haven't decided which.

It's also made things very, very green.  (And muddy, but I prefer to gloss over that bit.)  Maybe that's why I've been focusing on green salsa lately.  I haven't made salsa verde in a long time, mainly because my husband and friends love the red stuff so much that it's all they ask for.  I made some salsa verde last night, though, and it's a good thing I did because that's when I realized that I made a mistake in this article at Examiner.com.  It's been changed now, but the original might have led to exploding tomatillos in the homes of my readers, and that would have been bad for everybody.

I've written an article about tomatillos, too.  Find it here.

Grrr.

I have just figured out that when your iGoogle homepage refreshes, it eats the post in the blogger widget instead of oh, say, saving it or even publishing the damn thing. I am NOT happy.