Photo mystery partially solved

I received a nice comment from Kim Maffin on my flickr photo set letting me know she'd linked to one of my pregnancy/copaxone pictures (here's the entry: http://www.todmaffin.com/blogs/ms/2007/03/13/change-is-in-the-air/) so that explains some of the traffic. I think someone else linked directly to one of the other pictures but as of now I am still in the dark about how to track those links down. Considering my computer skills are becoming worse and worse by the minute these days I don't think I will ever be able to find it completely. In any event, it was very cool and exciting to see that someone was inspired by the picture, but it was even more exciting that it was Kim since I have been listening to her and her husband Tod's excellent MS Podcast for ages. Yay! Gotta love reciprocity; they've given me a lot of info on trials of different drugs so I'm glad I could return the favor.

We just finished a very nice St. Patrick's Day dinner with both sets of parents at our house replete with the good china and the good tablecloth and adult beverages. I realized that this was the last "grown-up" party I'd be having for a long time, so it was a lot of fun to do. We made the same corned beef recipe we did last year from Bon Appetite, a marmalade-whisky glaze. You can either use pre-cooked corned beef from the deli or just buy it raw from the supermarket and boil it ahead of time for three hours, which is far cheaper. My mom brought some colcannon, and my mother-in-law provided a salad and a green-coconut cake. I made the brown bread and the soda bread with extra raisins. All very excellent and good, and a nice way to celebrate the impending arrival of that large bump in my stomach. Plus I had a teeny glass of Guiness - yum! So ready for bed now, but I'm sure I'll be up at 5:00am again in which case I'll post the photos of the cupcakes I made for Zander on Friday.