It'd be weird to have your career based on being irritating, I think.

I'm a journalist, so I think I'm the wrong person to address this statement...

Hey! That's my hey...

Happy Birthday, Benno! Except that it's tomorrow already, where you are, and I missed it. But you have a way cool birthdate--I think, anyway.

I'm glad Emmett's laughing, Hec. Laughter is healing for physical ills as well as emotional ones, I firmly believe.

The birthday was so low-key you wouldn't believe, Cindy. The MIL called to wish me happy, as did StE. StY called pre-emptively yesterday, as he knew he'd be busy and distracted today. Mom remembered while I was saying goodnight to her, too. And DH, who had a hard week and was psyched for chores this weekend, ran out of them. Well, there were more, but I could see him cycling down, and I didn't remind him. We decided on a celebratory lunch at Nawab one day next week, and he napped for a couple of hours, until I woke him because he was snoring so loud on the couch it made me giggle. I sent him off to bed, where he has been sleeping the restorative sleep of the sleep-deprived for two or three hours already.

I did not get my desk clean. In fact, I didn't do jack to it. I may tomorrow. But I culled, trimmed and changed the water in the flowers I got for Valentine's Day, changed and made the bed, put away the clean dishes and washed the dirty ones, put away the paper products from the grocery store, after rearranging the cupboard to make space, scooped and refilled the litterbox, cleaned the toilet and bathroom sink, put away the clean dishes and washed the dirty ones, gathered the trash for taking out and the grocery bags to take back to recycle at the store, relined all the trash baskets and the kitchen can, scooped the litterbox, reheated some pinto beans and had them for supper, made some hot fudge sauce from the cocoa StY gave me for Christmas, had it over Breyers vanilla with the last of the Reddi Whip while I watched decorating shows (Drew! The homeowner on Design Remix was wearing well-worn Utilikilt! The makeover guy liked it so much he was wearing a new one at the end of the show!) and It Takes a Thief on DSC, caught up online everywhere but Bitches, which is up in another tab, shopped desultorily at ebay, put away the clean dishes and washed the dirty ones, and worked on a long, multipage letter to one of my only remaining friends who doesn't have email.

Productive is happy, in my world.

I think I just saw Colin on my teevee. It's very surreal.

What's up, aurelia?

Pretty rainbow picture, Aimée!

Poking head while it's still the 19th in the USA, to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, it was a double Buffista event: both Beverly and Benno (Fiona's son) had a birthday. Oh, and Kat and lori have an anniversary, as well - what a lucky date! So lots of wishes (belated, alas) to them all, of a great year to come.

Hi, Nilly! How's the grind?

Thank you for all of the wishes. Ironically (or typically), Lori and I spent our anniversary apart -- she is in Joshua Tree for a class she teaches and I was presenting at a conference in San Jose.

DH and I will be celebrating our third on the 23rd. Us doppelkats have to stick together.

WORD! doppelkats UNITE!

Beverly, I love sharing a celebratory day with you too!

My sleeping schedule has been totally fucked up since I got sick.

Anyway, I thought I was the king of the gratuitous mentioning of penguins, but I gotta give props to my man Roger Ebert - check out the first two paragraphs of his review of Constantine :

No, "Constantine" is not part of a trilogy including "Troy" and "Alexander." It's not about the emperor at all, but about a man who can see the world behind the world, and is waging war against the scavengers of the damned. There was a nice documentary about emperor penguins, however, at Sundance this year. The males sit on the eggs all winter long in like 60 degrees below zero.

Keanu Reeves plays Constantine as a chain-smoking, depressed demon-hunter who lives above a bowling alley in Los Angeles. Since he was a child, he has been able to see that not all who walk among us are human. Some are penguins. Sorry about that. Some are half-angels and half-devils.

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Hee. Penguins are comedy gold.

I am also wrongly awake. I should be sleeping now because I have to travel in the morning, but I am awake, because I was lying in bed and I was hit in the muse with a drabble. So I had to come post it. But now I am wide awake. Bet you any money I don't fall asleep until, like, four.