Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

Actually testing inbound trackbacks to Robs test site

This movie very very very very much needs to not exist.

As goes Massachusetts, so go other states with liberal residents and conservative governors... ha ha.

Way to go California!

This quote was on my iGoogle page today and I thought it was particularly fitting and funny.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

On a random site - maybe it was a Yahoo home page - on someone else's computer - an ad for some humane society that said, "It takes 2 hours to poison a dog." with a sick as hell looking puppy on it.

Fuck off, humane societies. I don't poison dogs, don't make me want to kill myself just because I go online.

Here's what I don't get:

What makes people think that a fun time is hanging out in a basement apartment and spilling out of it into the basement and the airshaft/courtyard (where you're specifically not supposed to hang out because it's too loud and disrupts all other apartments) and smoking and drinking beer?

I seriously don't get the appeal. It's lame.

I had a date w/Clementine, Hester, and Hashbrown today. Please note that we went to Pad Thai and the result is that even though I ate my food there around 4pm I'm still not hungry at all and it's almost 11pm.

I met Clementine in Kenmore Square and we walked over to our new apt in Fenway where she got to check out the place, and we took Billy the dog out. He was real sweet to Amy, just like last time he saw her a couple years ago on Beacon Hill. Good thing because the first couple times he was around her years ago in Brighton he scared the crap out of her as he was in his "fake friendly with snapping at people" phase and snapped at her badly at least 2 times.

Anyway, we went on a little walk with Billy where he was feeling his oats because he likes to show off for visitors so he was prancing around like he was a spring chicken instead of a grumpy old man.

Then we took him home and headed to Pad Thai. I got crispy chicken pad thai. Mmmmm. Clementine got spicy bamboo chicken rice plate. After a while we heard from Hashbrown that Hester had woken up from her nap and they came and joined us.

From that point on it was all about Hester, as it should be with a almost 15 month old! She was having none of sitting in her stroller or in our booth so I followed her around the restaurant a few times as she explored everything, often pointing things out and asking "What's that?" (more like, "Dat?") We went to the window and looked at birds, people walking, and buses and cars. She also enjoyed playing with Hashbrown's cell phone and my cell phone.

It was great to see everyone - I haven't seen Hester Willa since January and she's really getting to be such a big girl! She was wearing the gift my parents gave her for Christmas and it was the official last wearing because it's a little too small for her now. Thanks for letting her wear it one more time for me!

The reason people are portraying you as a monster is because YOU ARE A MONSTER.

The end.

I don't know how many people have heard about this study, which seems to point to diet soda actually being a marker for weight gain and obesity.

Kind of interesting, and I get what they're saying, and obviously the study doesn't lie but I just hope people don't make too direct of a connection. It's not like diet soda secretly has calories in it, but something else you're doing maybe because of the soda or maybe not may be leading to weight gain. Anyway, but this part of it annoys me:

"People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn't fooled," she says. "If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite."

Yeah but I'm not trying to "fool" my body lady, I'm trying to drink something with caffeine that doesn't have 150 calories a glass.

All I can say for my experience with diet soda is that when I switched from regular to diet I immediately lost 10 pounds which I've relatively kept off since then. (I say relatively because when I do other bad things like eat lots of fried foods and cookies I obviously gain weight but that's unrelated to the diet soda.)

By the way, I'm not trying to make a post that's all about dieting and pounds and calories because I'm so totally not someone who enjoys talking about that shit, I just find the study interesting because I've heard some scuttlebut over the last year or so that diet soda makes people gain weight and I found it hard to believe.

Here is Miss Hester Willa playing on a recent trip to visit her extended family. I can't believe what a big girl she is getting to be!