For some reason, I have had such a craving for toast lately.

Who craves toast, might I ask? People with the blandest taste buds known to man, that's who: my genetic heritage is Irish, Belgian, British and German, and notwithstanding the German love for fermented cabbage, it's a fine, solid, sausage and potato loving bunch of nations.

Also, toast. Mmmmm, toooooaaaast...Don't ask me, I don't get it either, but hell, if eating four slices of buttered toast can both fill me with joy and be dinner, who am I to complain?

Last night my craving expanded from just toast to beans and toast. And no, I didn't mean beans on toast--my taste buds may be British, but I still don't like food all mixed together, so I put the beans next to the toast and am happy as a clam.

Not only that, but I even had proper beans in the house, a can of good, British, Heinz (Heinz meanz beanz, you know), which are much more suitable (read: bland) than any American style of canned baked beans.

All I needed was a sausage for it to be a perfect meal. But I didn't have a sausage. It was still pretty great, though.

The foods I need to be happy: toast, bagels and cream cheese, rice, mashed potatoes, Pepsi and chicken cordon bleu. Good thing I'm not going on that Atkins diet anytime soon, my heart would break.

Have you heard that they are remaking Brideshead Revisited? Into a movie?

I cannot imagine that there is a great hue and cry throughout the land to remake something that is perfect to start with, though the cast--Jude Law as Sebastian, Paul Bettany as Charles and Jennifer Connelly as Julia--is really rather a good idea.

Here's the thing, though: I asked the guy who told me about this how they could possibly fit the entire story into a two hour movie, and he said they aren't, they are only doing part of it. Which part, you ask? The bit where Charles and Julia fall in love. You know, the bit that nobody cares about.

Why, might I ask, if you are going to remake one of the greatest love-stories ever written, do you decide to focus on the wrong couple? I mean, I will happily watch Jude Law in anything, I'm even looking forward to the remake of Alfie, but I'd far rather watch him kiss Paul Bettany than Jennifer Connelly do so.

So, yesterday I caught up with getupgrrl (I would totally give you my eggs, if I wasn't 40 years old and no sane person would want my eggs), Toni (through whom I discovered getupgrrl in the first place, and thus all of the infertility journals that I read like a maniac) Jessamyn (and the fab photo blog), and Dooce (redesigned to include back and next links--thank you, Heather!!!)

Check out that year ago today link, that was the start of all of this nonsense with Mark. And nonsense it certainly has been. Next time, I'm picking someone at least in my own maturity level, if not my actual age.

Today's horoscope:
Looks like you're really going to enjoy a couple of days off -- and not a moment too soon, right? You stand to have a very, very romantic evening, whether you're attached or single. Choose your companion wisely.

One year ago today:
Afterwards, I went out with the cast since Moira and a few other friends were in the audience, and ended up in a very flirtatious situation with a cute 25-year-old in the cast.

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