I too have an unhappy toe. I whanged it before I left, and the surface of it is numb on the outside edge, down the foot about another 2 inches. Figure I smacked a nerve. It isn't painful, just really weird.

OK, pictures:

Dominic and the birthday cake (it had dinosaurs. He LOVES dinosaurs.)

Someone was sleepy

Dominic monopolizing his grandfathers in his Wiggles pjs. I may never recover from the Wiggles earworms.

MINE!!!! No one is allowed to drive it, and it is full of little people. It was a gift "from" his dad. Hah. I'll eventually upload the shot of my brother opening it and the look on his wife's face. Priceless.

I'm a little tired of the malicious urination.

Well there's a phrase you don't see very often.

ita, do you think your folks would like going to see Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement at the Regent Showcase Cinema on La Brea? It's a beautiful old-timey arthouse theater that's as much an attraction as the movies playing there, and it's on the same street as both Pink's Hot Dogs and the House that Kermit Built. (I'm not kidding - Jim Henson Studios has a big statue of Kermit over the gate!)

Well there's a phrase you don't see very often.

It's a tacit crisis, along with malicious vomitation and malicious turdination.

Whoo-hoo! CEO called, and instructed us to close the office at four for the rest of the week! This never happens - he's more the type to call at 5:25 on x-mas eve with complicated projects that Must Go Out Tonight.

Timelies,

Happy Birthday, Emily!

Ouch, TomS!

Continuing the saga of the leaking waterbed, around 6am, the jury-rigged syphon stopped pulling water. I tried to get it restarted without success, then said screw it and passed out on the couch. Since the water wasn't draining anymore, I just had to hope it wouldn't shift.

Of course, my boss then paged me around 8:20 asking when I'd be in. I swear, getting woken up out of a deep sleep after only two hours is ten times worse than not sleeping at all. I explained the situation (which I had done to the night person when I called in originally) and went back to lie down on the couch. 10 minutes later I got another page from work. I called the person back, again explained my situation and went back to bed yet again. I can only assume at the night shift person I talked to wrote a completely uninformative e-mail or forgot to send one at all.

I finally woke up around noon, called a bunch of waterbed places, found one that was open and picked up a new matress, liner and drain/fill kit. I'm out another $200+. Ugh.

In the meantime I've got the drainage kit doing it's thing. Hopefully the mattress while be empty enough to move in a few hours

t, my friend called from NO on Christmas to tell me it was snowing (I heard from a cousin that Houston got some too) and I thought of you and Dana.

It was surreal. Ice. Falling from the sky. In New Orleans. First time there's been snow in 15 years, and first time on Christmas Day in nearly 50.

It was surreal. Ice. Falling from the sky. In New Orleans.

Hee. We had unsticking, but falling, light snow in Birmingham. It was warmer in Baltimore than Birm for most of the time I was there.

My SIL's poor parents were driving down from Ohio in the midst of the storm. They detoured to avoid the worst. Through Virginia and Georgia.

Freaky weather.

Frank, if you have a dog or a cat, then you are not immune to the world of malicious urination or malicious vomitation.

Or malicious pooping.

We had a cat who did that whenever we returned from a trip.

My head needs to stop hurting.