My upstairs neighbor is hosting both a NYE party and a NYD brunch. I bought a couple of bottles of prosecco to contribute to the evening, and I may see about making cinnamon rolls for brunch, too, depending on how ambitious I feel on the 1st.

There were plans and then there was the sick, so.

Yep. Same here.

M is working the Hangover Brunch at 6 a.m. on NYD, so it'll probably be a quiet night of Fallout: New Vegas and Coronas for us. Maybe sushi from our favorite joint, if we're feeling wild & crazy.

Matt, Creation Cons are such a scam. If you really want to see Kavan Smith, find out which day he's going to be onstage the most, and then go the day of an buy a day-pass. It's much cheaper than any of Creation's package tickets and you won't feel so much like cattle.

That's definitely the plan if I go at all. That big Angel con Creation put on in 2004 was worth going the whole weekend for, but there were multiple guests I wanted to see/hear throughout the event, a Kane concert, I had several friends in attendance to hang out with, and I was flush with cash at the time. And, of course, the once-in-a-lifetime chance to get David Boreanaz to refer to Christian Kane as his bitch in front of thousands of people.

Getting a package deal for the special dessert and charity breakfast functions would be mildly tempting, but I recall that it's fairly awkward if you're sitting with people you don't know as celebrity guests do the musical chairs thing for a few minutes at each table. (Stephanie Romanov was a hoot, but I wouldn't pony up multiple days' worth of convention costs and hotel stay for a repeat of the experience.)

msbelle, insent to gmail (both).

grr irritating work issue means that, although I have tomorrow and Monday off, I will have to be checking my email and, possibly, responding to pissed off users and fixing things for them. Awesome!

SO left the store for home about twenty minutes ago and then just now texted to say he's not making it home right now. He says he's okay but the roads are not, and more info later. I don't know what that means! I mean, I'm glad he's ok. But is he okay stuck in a ditch at the side of the road? Is he okay in a jam behind a pileup?

This is funny, except it's more sad than funny:

Mosque foes launch Bieber boycott

A parody website did an "interview" with Bieber where he supported the construction of the so-called "Ground-zero Mosque". Now people are calling for a boycott against Bieber.

Ack, Liese! May the SO reach somewhere safe soon and stay there.

and stay there.

Right?

He called. He had to turn the wrong direction leaving the store and couldn't get turned around. He finally turned in our old neighborhood. Now he's parked at the Denny's.

He's going to head up to Show Low and see what it looks like there. If satisfactory, he's going to try one route home. It's a bigger highway, but it's worse once he hits side roads. So if it starts looking squirrelly, then he's going to keep on going to the town north of us and stay there overnight.

I am going to freak out like a mammal. That is my plan of action. And maybe launder some sheets.