Plus I got blisters on my fingers from using a scissors to cut the cardboard. But it turned out OK.

You are a rock star of dragon mask making! It really looks great.

Oh good lord, msbelle. People are good about not doing that here, that would drive me up a wall. Just hearing one side of a conference call is bad enough, but that is pretty unavoidable in cubicle-land.

Aw, ltc, more holidays coming up, more opportunities for family to adore you!

Now ltc is looking at me and wondering where the rest of her fan club has gone.

"More giant doting humans, Mama! Bring them to me!"

Pretty sure I'm not making it to any of my morning meetings today even though we've been en route for almost two hours.

I woke up before my alarm this morning (thanks, DST? I guess?), and my reward was a nasty drive through bad traffic. It makes it seem undesirable to be virtuous.

Walter and the cats do mind,

Charlie keeps trying to get me to take him for a walk, but then turning around as soon as he hits open air and gets wet.

I am taking a sick day, because I sound like a frog and have a fever. I already finished one work task that needed to get done, and now I get to go back to bed. YAY

Thanks for all the dragon mask compliments! I'm going to see if I can hang it from the wall and put LED lights in its eyes. Maybe I'll trigger the lights with a motion sensor, so the lights only come on when someone is moving around in my apartment.

Plus I got blisters on my fingers from using a scissors to cut the cardboard. But it turned out OK.

For future reference, an X-acto or carpet knife works much better on cardboard (or anything thicker than cardstock or bristol board) than scissors do.

Yeah, I used an X-acto on the more difficult cuts--I'd slide the knife along a metal ruler to keep the cut straight. But the scissors seemed easier to use in general. I was using a sturdy kitchen scissors, which worked OK until its blades got dull.

And they just annoyed with me for suggesting they could all be on one phone in an office.

That's how my boss conducts all our team meeting conference calls. Four remote workers on our phones, and six or seven people sitting around one phone on speaker. I can barely hear anyone, but my boss wants everyone all together in one room.

Zenkitty, an email like that would pretty much guarantee that I woul become cranky and rebellious.

That's the effect it has on me too. It was part of a whole big graphic that someone had created about "Wellness" which is something else my company has gone all-in on. I guess they just don't want to pay too much for our health insurance.

I hope the rest does you good, Lee!

Maybe I'll trigger the lights with a motion sensor, so the lights only come on when someone is moving around in my apartment.

That's awesome.