OK, will catch up on the 100 messages in a bit, but first:

Hot chocolate laced with marshmallow vodka is awesome. Firepits are are awesome. Meeting new people via my cardiac ICU nurse/bartender neighbor is awesome. Having this all be just at the end of the block? REALLY AWESOME. AND one of the women I met is looking for a job and I know we have some internal postings likely to go external in the new year, so wrote down the info for her. AWESOME.

I don't know if it is the sugar, chocolate or vodka which has gone to my head. Coming home to a clean house, also awesome. Less awesome? I have to get up early to make ~120 goddamned cookies. WTF?

Hot chocolate laced with marshmallow vodka is awesome

Ohh, Dan and I made WTF faces at each other when we saw those vodka advertised, then he said "Maybe in hot cocoa?"

I am totally trying that out!

I'm so jealous of sarameg's awesome neighbors!!

Though I have a pretty awesome roommate right now--we got up, she bought lunchfoods, and I got coffee, and we drove to Mount Rainier, and hiked around, and ate lunch, and hiked some more, and drove back towards home, and stopped at the Melting Pot and ate cheese and chocolate, and now I am done.

reassure myself [or find out it's all a big lie anyway, and nothing is as clean as I think it is],

There's a reason I don' t read things like that "no one cleans their contacts right!" story that was floating around facebook. I don't want to know!!!

"All this just for shoes?"

Magic shoes.

I have no street cred. I have no hood cred. What I do have is enough sense to know that any list of Things X Group of People Do has high insult potential.

The little kids are gone for the night. The big kids are also gone (CJ at KCD's, K-Bug at a party, then from party to work at 1am). I have the house to myself. Wish I had some marshmallow vodka...I have cocoa.

Wish I had some marshmallow vodka...I have cocoa.

I have not tried it, but I did try the whipped cream vodka, which was startlingly good in some OJ.

If someone hasn't already coined the word "whitesplaining" they can now use the hair lady as an example.

It seriously is THE SHIT. And while I like a good cup of cocoa, I usually stop at one, enough for me. FOUR. And it was potent, even sitting in a crockpot. I only came home cause 120 cookies, and last time I didn't cut myself off at Tara's, it was baaaad. Really bad. I was still hungover 12 hours later.

The weirdest thing just happened.

I love love love Polgara. That's something only she can accomplish.

The ita !, Santa and Polgara picture engendered the closest to a holiday spirit I've had this year.

Also, awesome? I was there totally in my post-pool, post-cleaning glory: no makeup, hair pinned back haphazardly, stripey socks and inside shoes, jeans and tshirt. Some folks were seriously dressed up, society barhopping style. I pretty much was the slob of the bunch. And I didn't care, and neither did they. Ended the night totally bonding with probably the most blinged out woman there. I'm happy I can get to that point of fuckit and it doesn't hamper my closet extrovert.