nothing it says, "I love you but you should try to dress better" like the gift of the quality tie.

Hee! Well, there goes my productivity at work ...

I also avoided the SotU like the plague. Instead, I watched Smallville, Project Runway and Good Eats. I also talked to friends on the phone.

FYI:

sunday i hung with the fab sarah lukashok accessories designer extraordinaire. lets just say you heard it here that fur hand muffs with embellishments will be THE accessory for girls on the east coast next winter.

I bet Jilli already has one.

I was thinking you should making The Love with Natalie Portman. Also, that you were at a simialar stage in your life. Young but seriously re-evaluating what you wanted and who you wanted to be.

Yeah. I getcha. I should go scream on top of a tractor one of these days.

lets just say you heard it here that fur hand muffs with embellishments will be THE accessory for girls on the east coast next winter.

I bet Jilli already has one.

Two. One made from white Mongolian lamb, one made from black seal*. Both antiques, both presents. We will not speak of the pink fox fur muffs I keep seeing on eBay, because I have to keep reminding myself that I will only own vintage or antique fur, and if that means I can't find it in pink, oh well.

• The hint Pete gave me about the box that turned out to be holding the black seal skin muff? "Club!" He is a bad, bad man.

It is snowing and it's starting to accumulate.

shush you! It needs to stop doing that soon and be all clear by tomorrow afternoon so people aren't all "I was going to the SCS show but it's too Winter out there."

I hate stuff that's out of my control (obviously).

We have no snow or prospect of any, but it has been gray, gray, gray for days. The Seattlistas will probably not appreciate that the weatherman on the radio just said, "Your visit to Seattle will be ending by Monday."

The Seattlistas will probably not appreciate that the weatherman on the radio just said, "Your visit to Seattle will be ending by Monday."

Does that mean we'll get our proper weather back? No more of this weird bright thing in the sky?

Does that mean we'll get our proper weather back? No more of this weird bright thing in the sky?

Perhaps it does mean we'll trade so that we both get back our proper weather.

I'm fond of the bright thing, but would be happy for it to disappear for another 2-3 months if it means it gets cold and wet enough that we get a snowpack in the mountains and don't end up in some kind of icky expensive water and energy crisis with lots of dead salmon and political angst over the summer.

And it's supposed to turn colder over the weekend. Not sure about the bright thing leaving.