msbelle, please check your gmail. And I'm so sorry everything is being so difficult right now.

Our usual Cristmas eve dinner is crab but that's likely out this year given the toxic algae or whatever it is, so I'm thinking pork roast maybe? I can always cook it the next day instead.

We split a 1/2 pig this year with friends and ended up with 3 pork loin roasts. I made all three the same way because it was so freaking good! Stuffed with bread crumbs and blue cheese and roasted with apples. NOMS! I'd be happy to share the recipe if those things sound delicious for you and your fam.

Congrats on the job progress, sara!

I have probably 8 million things to do before we leave for Michigan on Tuesday. Including getting gifts for several MI family members. And I'm working tomorrow morning and Monday. And I have 8 million things to do at work where I've spent the week learning the job of someone who's last day is today. Hoping I haven't forgotten all of it when I come back to work after the first of the year. I'll be working in the position for a month figuring out if I want the job for real permanents. I'm not so sure I want to be tied down to one full-time job, though! I've gotten used to being to (basically) come and go as I please!

I neglected to take notes for a proper meara, so just be assured that there where cheers and nods and shaking fists at various points.

Ran here to escape the crazy. I made the mistake of clicking on a link to an article about the professor being fired from FAU for being a bat shit crazy Sandy Hook conspiracy advocate. I read the comments. It is so freaking scary out there.

I love Buffistas for many reasons, but your sanity, yes I loves that the most. Thank you. You may not think you are sane at times, but you really really are.

Timelies all!

If we're lucky, we'll be able to sneak out to see Star Wars while we're in Florida next weekend.(With my folks babysitting the little guy, of course.)

sj, I know it was ages ago that you asked, but my brain just coughed up the memory of where I had heard something about bow ties. Don't know if it's the kind of thing you are looking for but I heard about this on Project Runway, the sponsored a bow tie challenge [link]

In the Heart of the Sea was meh. I don't know what the point of it was supposed to be. But brunch was good and I have lots of leftovers and I got my grocery shopping done in between the restaurant and the movie so I will not run out of food anytime soon AND I think I'm at an acceptable stopping point on the project I've been working on lately so my day as a whole has been quite satisfactory.

Manuscript that was supposed to be to me by Wednesday still hadn't arrived as of closing time today, so the sum total of my productivity today was buying snack treats to go in the Christmas package for the art director/graphic designer duo my company's been partnered with for decades.

I did go out to dinner tonight to my favorite Thai place that merely relocated again rather than closing as I'd feared last weekend. It seems a big bowl of yummy tom yum soup was the key to FINALLY getting both nostrils working at capacity simultaneously.

sj, I know it was ages ago that you asked, but my brain just coughed up the memory of where I had heard something about bow ties. Don't know if it's the kind of thing you are looking for but I heard about this on Project Runway, the sponsored a bow tie challenge [link]

That's a neat website. Thanks! Now I'm not sure if I should stick with the ones I bought today or return them and order his gift from here.

I got the vacuuming done. I have a packing list (it'll take all of 5 minutes.) gotta hope I have time to run to a bookstore tomorrow.

Still processing my conversation with quasi-supervisor who is retiring. She really has no shits left to give and was pretty frank about some coworkers and our boss. It's actually given me a lot to work with, provided I stay working here. I can...direct some things.

She really, really, really thinks I should be given more authority. Noises she wants me to take over her role in mgmt meetings. I'm *not* the most senior person she could choose.

This spring is gonna be weird.

We met our new nurse who I like. But really, I won't know for a while. She will only be with Grace while we are at school which is a different thing entirely. Should be... interesting?

Kick some ass, Sara--take her job and let the contract shit go away? :)