Would you believe I have no chocolates at work? Hm. COuld do a CVS run.

I think I need to avoid b.org for the rest of Lent. I gave up chocolate. My willpower is being tested. Oy.

I was thinking about getting Mr. H some food and flowers and bringing them by the bar. That or getting the food and flowers, going home and cleaning the house, and then setting the alarm so I can get up and set up flowers and candles and food in the clean house when he gets home. He'll have to eat by himself though, because I'm going to go back to bed.

I missed y'all over the weekend. I could have used some snark at the baby shower.

I've been thinking about Ralph Wiggum all day.

My favorite has to be Lisa has Dustin Hoffman for a sub, but that is definitely in my top 5.

I've recently started buying myself flowers. This week, when I told the crazy florist I didn't care what colour the ribbon was, she said "They're for you?" with surprise. She's a freak, though, and is convinced I'm either an actress or a lawyer, and won't take "Hell, no." for an answer.

She's a freak, though, and is convinced I'm either an actress or a lawyer

Huh, I thought you were an actress that plays a lawyer.

Can't have flowers in the house due to cats and Allergy Boy. I miss them--there is nothing like them for the life and pretty and pampered feelings they bring.

I don't mean to give the impression that I think there's something lame about taking a date or SO out for a romantic dinner/entertainment on the Day - I've done that myself. It's the societal pressure to do so and people's "you aren't? What's wrong with you?" reactions that makes me see red in a shade the marketers hadn't intended.

reactions that makes me see red in a shade the marketers hadn't intended.

You mean #FE0202?

"Lisa's Substitute" is definitely the most heartfelt Simpsons episode. I think the greatest though, is "Last Exit To Springfield."

From the NY Times, in case you were wondering what happened to the people who created the legal architecture and executive decisions justifying torture:

Mr. Rumsfeld revealed last week that he twice offered to resign over the Abu Ghraib scandal and was twice turned down by President Bush. Mr. Bybee, who defined torture as pain equivalent to "organ failure," was nominated by Mr. Bush to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and took his seat there in 2003. Michael Chertoff, who in his capacity as head of the Justice Department's criminal division advised the C.I.A. on the legality of coercive interrogation methods, was selected by President Bush to be the new secretary of homeland security. William J. Haynes II, the Department of Defense's chief legal officer, who helped oversee Pentagon studies on the interrogation of detainees, was twice nominated by President Bush to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. And Mr. Gonzales, who used the words "obsolete" and "quaint" in reference to the Geneva Conventions, was confirmed last week as attorney general, the nation's top legal post.