That is not stupid stuff, Susan. It may have turned out to be less an issue than you legitimately thought it might be. Which is not the same thing as being stupid.

So, stop it. Like Robin said.

skippy skippy to say HEY P-C!!!

HEY GC!!

I must confess, I don't think I dig So Jealous all that much. The new style just really doesn't do it for me beyond a few songs. I listened to If It Was You to remind myself that I did in fact love Tegan and Sara.

I felt the same at first. Having listened to So Jealous 3 million times at this point, I love it just the same. Maybe one day you'll change your mind :)

Happy to see you back, dude!

Cooking tip for dummies (like me):

If you are frying a second four strips of bacon, don't forget to turn the burner back up.

Especially if you are getting engrossed in catching up on the board.

Although one could cook bacon on "low," the time frame involved would be more in line with suppertime.

OK. Will try to stop it. I do hate being scared of things, though--all hearkens back to the big fear of turning into my mother. And all those spectacular crashes I was imagining myself in really do seem kind of idiotic in the full light of day. Though I really can see the car failing to get enough traction on a slippery hill and skidding into the nearest tree/fire hydrant/parked car.

Also:

Welcome back P-C!

Was more concerned you may have been making an innocent day trip to the other side of the country or something and picked Tsunami Day.

I would be interested in the reactions of everyone much closer to the disaster than I. When you get a chance, let us know how people reacted to the tsunami when you were over there. It's one thing to be half a world away from such a thing, I was wondering if it was another to be on the other side of one of the affected nations.

I made pumpkin bread for the first time last night and am eating it now. AIFG!!!

Though I really can see the car failing to get enough traction on a slippery hill and skidding into the nearest tree/fire hydrant/parked car.

That's a valid fear. Not so much because of the damage, but because of the amount of time it might take you to get unstuck and with a baby in the car. Even though I drive on snow a lot living in the Midwest, there's still streets I try to avoid like the plague when it's snowy out.

Baby wouldn't have been in the car--DH would've come to the second service only and brought her. Which would've put me in the second, smaller and older car that I don't trust quite as much.

Really, really need to get out of the habit of overthinking these things. I wish I could manage to just make a choice in circumstances like this, and not spend half the day angsting over it. And it's really only petty stuff like this. With big, true crisis-level things, I'm as clear-headed and decisive as anyone could want.

Okay, see, the letters things was just going to be a way to say welcome back P-C!! in a way that I thought he might like, and that would be entertaining to those involved, but then he came back earlier than was expected, and people are away or offline for the weekend, and then we were going to try to wait for them, and it just didn't work out as hoped. It was not meant to be exclusionary, beyond the limited number of people it took to spell out the message.

Anyway, Welcome back P-C, and sorry for the annoyance factor to others.