Dinner: chicken, bacon, penne pasta, garlic, olive oil, fresh basil, toasted pine nuts, grape tomatoes, red & green onion, red & yellow bell pepper, baby spinach, green beans, broccoli spears, red pepper flake, cayenne, black pepper, sea salt, chicken broth, and a dash of white wine.

That sounds delicious!

We had gyoza for dinner. Noah ate his own gyoza but wanted me to get the green stuff out -- god forbid he thinks I'm sneaking in a vegetable -- and he even used chopsticks (at least the kiddie kind) to eat it!

I take pictures of my food all of the time

Ever see a movie called "Mr. Frost"?

and he even used chopsticks (at least the kiddie kind) to eat it!

Aw. I love watching kids learn chopsticks.

I had a baconator due to a late meeting. It was a mistake. A giant, tasty mistake.

I moved my pink chair out of the TV room to make way for the xmas tree. It makes the living room look empty, but it means I can sit in a different room now.

I think I'm going to trash my desk and just set up a sewing station instead. I don't use a desk for desky stuff anyway, so why bother?

Mmm... that does sound delicious!

My desk is for paper and software organization by now.

Then again, my dining table is a bookcase.

I am not what you would call organized.

I cannot find mac' s advent calendar/candy delivery device for his door. GRRR. I fear it was not put up with Christmas stuff.

I need a sanity check. Suppose you found out at about 6 PM today that 8 weeks from now you're going on a 10-day business trip, and not the fun kind, for an event that's been planned for a year. All of the other attendees knew they'd be going for several months already.

And suppose you learned this through an email to the staff in which you were assigned a task at this event. Nobody has actually spoken a word to you about it. Would you be a little irate?

I'm asking because I'm pretty sure that my current level of anger is irrational, partly because I spent the evening with my SIL and that's not good for my mental outlook. But this merits at least a little anger, right? If I'd known about this earlier I wouldn't be thrilled, but I'd certainly have made different decisions about some things.

Oh: I should say that a less infuriated person might think, "How funny, but that is obviously a mistake that I will clear up tomorrow." I'm sure it's not a mistake, because I know what the people I work for are like. (They are a lot like thoughtless, clueless fuckheads.)

That merits quite a bit of anger, especially if it's been planned all year and everyone else knew months before. There's no good excuse for them not to have told you so you could keep that time free, and the fact that they haven't actually told you is just...so not on.