this entry exists for the purpose of contributing to the ampersand project. Pretend to enjoy, will ya??

About an hour or two ago, me and The Girl left the humble abode of my mother, where we've been for the last two months and change. For the sake of keeping calm, peaceful vibes, I told her we were going out to look at cable modems and converter cables at Best Buy or some such. Instead, we were headed to Papa Vino's. This is/was a good thing, as we always eat well there.

She had the Baked Cheese Ravioli, I the Chicken Marsala. You were dying to know. As you were.

AAAAAAnyway, I told a lil' lie, for the sake of keeping my mom's blood pressure even. She flips out when we go out to eat. She thinks we spend too much on that sort of thing. And she's right, of course, as most mothers are. But she's been so sympathetic and calm lately about what all we've been going through and I just wanted to keep it that way.

So, a small, tidy little lie. Told for sanity, which keeps my relationship happy and warm and fuzzy.

And told for hunger.

'Cause she sure as hell woulda killed me had we not been served consumables in short order. Fair enough, sez I.

np: Live, "Deep Enough"