Grats!
Engineering.
After a day’s delay, I’m finally home again (and for a whopping nine days now with only two days of work next week. Sweet!).
One thing: oh my gods, I have never seen such vast quantities of snow in one place! :eek:
Firstly, congrats on your advancement, Madam President. 
I’d like you to stand in front of a mirror and practice screeching “Airlock!” for 20 minutes a day.
I saw Avatar too this weekend. Frakking awesome, a visual tour de force!! It was my first 3D movie as well and altho the first few moments wearing those glasses felt strange, I totally forgot about them soon enough. Simply a stunning, stunning treat for the eyes.
Welcome home Armando and enjoy the snow…from inside, while drinking something hot and sitting on a couch. Frak shoveling!!
The advantage to being stuck out of town for a couple of days is that other people do the shoveling for you. It’s like the underpants gnomes stopped by, except instead of stealing my underpants they shoveled our driveway…and didn’t make a profit. HA! Stupid gnomes.
So apparently while I was gone last week Elena, our littlest Cylon, figured out the whole language thing. Words and sentences are coming out when only simple words and sounds vaguely resembling words came out before. It’s made for a very, very cool end of the week. (She has a LOT to say, it turns out.)
Well, after six months of work I just submitted the final (print) chapter of the book I’ve been working on:
In fact, the reason I started listening to GWC is because after 8 hours of work and 3-4 hours of book stuff I needed an activity that didn’t require my eyes or my hands.
Congrats!!
THE CAT CAME BACK! Milo returned home on Thursday after being gone for six weeks. He is rail thin, but otherwise healthy and happy to be home. We believe our dog Weasley went upstairs (where he’s not allowed) and chased him out of the house. So now we gate the stairs. It’s so nice to have him home.
In other good news, I got an essay accepted for an online journal, The Motherhood Muse. This piece is special because Topgun gave me the inspiration for it. It will be out online on April 1.
Pretty great week for me! Gonna savor it.
Woohoo!! fraggle dance
It is the perfect Valentines day! The hubs is at his mom’s, I have Oreo’s and Diet Coke (hosing the diet today!), and have been playing ME2 off and on since Friday night.
Oh - and DawnAZ’s kitty Milo has come home. The world is spinning properly!
SWEET! Congratulations.
Double sweet! Huzzah!
(Keep fighting them, Dawn. Small victories lead to big ones.)
So glad Milo finally came to his senses Dawn! Great great news. Welcome home Milo!
I am so happy for you and kitty too.
Hey Wolfbyte- that’s great news! Get your stuff out there.
Splatterson- diet Coke and sweets always go together, sounds like you had a great day.
Armando- your quote to me (fight them until we can’t) is in my direct line of vision on a post-it note here at my desk. I read it everyday. Makes all the difference.
Milo sends his purrs back to everyone who keep their fingers crossed for his safe return.
Now cross them again in hope that he doesn’t pee on the new carpet in the playroom.
Milo Went to College.
One percenter jokes are the best.
“Mom. Dad. This is my friend Otis. Is it OK if he sleeps in the garage for a couple of months?”
Awesome about the cat! Keep us posted on the essay.
Karmic balance post: not much of a “cool crap,” but it’ll have to do: (hey, am I allowed to have TWO colons in the same sentence?) last night I finished The Wire. What a frakking unbelievable show that was! I’m both glad I didn’t see it when it was on (the wait from episode to episode, let alone season to season, would’ve killed me. BSG was bad enough!) and annoyed that I didn’t (it would’ve been nice to support the show when it was on the air). I can truly say that I’ve never seen anything like it: a novelistic TV show. Frakking brilliant.
As I said on Facebook this morning: now if only we could get Starbuck and McNulty on the same show. What would THAT be like?
Kara comin’
Allroy sez bwaa-ha!