Wow, Apple's tech support is kind of blowing.

Liese, I have become oddly invested in your SO's travails to get home to you. I think perhaps because I don't think I'll have my SO with me tonight. I just spoke with him and MiL has a resistant infection in her lungs. fie! I'm bummed because I suspect this means she'll be sick for a good while.

Happy New Year, Billytea!

The weather here is chilly and bright: it was 37 when we ran in the woods this morning. And now I have cleaning and cooking to do, because I spent all day yesterday reading Yuletide on the futon.

I'm having a quiet night in with a friend who lives around the corner, and I'm hoping I can talk her into watching Truly, Madly, Deeply, which a friend of my sister's found a dvd of used somewhere. Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, yay!

Tomorrow I take my nieces out for dim sum before they go back to college: I expect the line to be very long.

(1) The Boy wanted to play the I-Have-A-Bug-Story game, so he wanted me to inform you that a bee flew in his motorcycle helmet once when he was getting on the highway. I asked him what happened, and he said, "I pulled over and took my helmet off." I told him he wasn't going to win this game.

(2) The KitchenAid stand mixer IS GOD.

(3)

Tep, are you still around? I scampered through and got all caught up just to give you this link, courtesy of seeing WindSparrow's current tagline and realizing I hadn't visited Sleep Talkin' Man in several months:

STM and spouse don't remind me of you and The Boy (or at least the You and The Boy in my brain) as much as that one really raunchy webcomic, and yet they kind of do.

Sorry I missed that last night, but STM is hilarious! I don't know how I've lived so long without hearing of it!

I just bought a Kitchen Aid Mixer last night. Even thought Amazon said it was out of stock, it's shipped already. I just can't resist the sale/rebate combo deal.

I've resolved to be on a shopping ban this fall (with a few exceptions, and foodstuffs, of course,) so I guess this is my way of going out with a bang.

ETA: The exceptions are a few Kindle goodies when my Kindle arrives and a reasonably priced runner for my hallway, if I find one.

I may have to make bread again, which I haven't done since college! That things is heavy as hell though; it will probably outlive me.

Cake is out and cooling, and smells like heaven. the sangria is in the icebox, and also smells awesome and tastes great.

I have a hair appt at 4:30, which I needed, since I haven't had it cut since April; pure luck I could get in on NYE!!

It's in the mid-40's today, which is just about perfect after 18" of snow. Just warm enough to play outside, not quite warm enough to turn the city into a giant slush puddle (yet). So we went sledding! (I *finally* managed to find a hardware store yesterday that wasn't sold out, and I bought their VERY LAST SLED. I am Supermom.)

Every time my phone rings today, I'm answering it with "No baby yet" just in case it's my mom again. I told her to just keep checking Facebook, but she didn't think that was very funny.

I think we're going to the pool this afternoon. Meanwhile I'm just sitting on my ass and eating as much Jamaican food as I can and surfing the internet and uploading to flickr and contemplating scanning old pictures. But I don't want to get up.

Man, that sounds lovely.

I did All The Errands, and found Sofia bubbly-in-a-can at my supermarket! I was wanting something bubbly for tonight, but it's just me, so a bottle would be A Little Much. I still can't believe my supermarket has liquor.

we have gone and picked up mac's playdate and picked up a fast food lunch for us all. I should probably do some of the chores, but do not wanna.

I had a fast food lunch as well!