Wow! No. We told everyone today that didn't already know ahead of time. Took a lot of people by surprise.

Work will be interesting tomorrow since I didn't tell anyone why I was taking today off.

Congratulations Kalshane!

When I was a teenager I had a nightmare about some unseen but gigantic thing outside charging at my bedroom window like a freight train (thanks, Dunwich Horror!). I woke in the process of doing a rolling leap out of my bed and through the open door to the hallway. Thankfully sleep-jumping me has better coordination than I do when awake, or that could have turned out badly.

I'm happy to report that a casino named Paris has kick ass French onion soup.

Congrats, Kalshane! We need more good news for 2016.

Congratulations Kalshane!

FUUUUUUCK. I have been planning a big trip to chile with a friend for months. It starts in two weeks. She's just gotten an amazing job offer that won't let her take the two weeks off (she's a contractor so it's lots of money and potential future work, but not a perm job). She's trying to bail on me. But the whole POINT of doing this was so I wasn't in a foreign country and trying to arrange sightseeing tours of the desert on my own. I understand this is a big opportunity for her but she would literally be ruining my one big vacation for the year.

(flailingly and not very hard and obviously not on purpose) punched me in the face while we were both asleep

My dexh smacked me in the nose with his ham-fist on the 3rd and very last time we slept in the same bed. Bloody nose like whoa. He never woke up. Feh.

Kalshane, congratulations to you both. Happy Decaversary and beginning of the continuation of your happy life together.

During the W campaign, I actually began the process of emigrating to New Zealand. It came down to my not being able to take Bartleby without 6 months quarantine. And, the head of the NZ counseling organization being quite shirty about my not being so welcome.

While I'm glad I didn't go then, I'm not sure I can hack what would be a monumentally worse situation for humanity.

My dexh smacked me in the nose with his ham-fist on the 3rd and very last time we slept in the same bed. Bloody nose like whoa. He never woke up. Feh.

I get that it must have been aggravating, but isn't killing him in his sleep going overboard?

Ugh meara, that's a bummer. And I hate it when I want to gnash my teeth but feel the need to be all mature and understanding of other people and their needs.

And Matt, I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it that way.

Congratulations, Kalshane! What a lovely how-we-got-married story. My brother and SiL did similar - I think they sent me an email afterwards with pictures, no hint beforehand.

Glad you are enjoying Paris, Connie! Please report whether they have breakfast chocolate available? I just like the sound of that, a croissant and chocolate for breakfast. I don't demand that you have it for me, but if you get a chance to check the menu.

Oh no, meara! Oh man. What an unfortunate confluence of what should be happy-making independent events.

Come to think of it, I have been known to sleepwalk. There's many ways I could have thwacked my hand while awake and just not really registered it, though.

My Tai Chi class didn't happen tonight. I don't know why - I got there a couple of minutes before it should have started (I thought) and no one was there, the office was dark and locked. I just checked the website and there's no notice about it. Troubling. So that was a long way to drive in the rain for no real reason. Nice visit wth my mom before I went to class, though.