The Prius has a definite high-tech coolness factor going.

But not too much. That's why the Insight lost me. Too electric. Prius just looks super-sleek and shiny-new.

Prius just looks super-sleek and shiny-new.

Driving it made me really appreciate the cool, it just reeks of high-techness.

Now I think I may actually get all the way dressed for the first time today just so I can go over to the Grove and have a Moroccan mint latte thing.

JEALOUS over the just getting dressed thing!

Am finally watching Alias. I'm surprised that Syd is freaking out cause she's usually very cool and collected.

Well, I was lying down. Does that count? I've never been crafty.

It depends. Did you use a glue gun?

Kat, I was surprised too. I guess it was the patent futility that got to her. No one to kill, nothing to jerry rig.

I just finished watching Eyes, and I think I will keep watching.

Did other people (besides Nicole, who said she was half watching) watch?

I was expecting something totally different at the end, and was pleasantly surprised when they didn't go where I thought they were going to.

All in all, I think the show is refreshingly ballsy, and I'd like to see if they keep it up.

I'm probably a weirdo, but I took that lifelong commitment thing seriously, as did DH. And as a lifelong commitment, I had to look beyond our offsprings' childhoods, to the point where they would be independent adults with their own lives, around which I will be a part of the periphery.

My soulmate, the person with whom I spent the before-kids and am spending the after-kids parts of my life, is the one I need to think about long-term.

The kids were a more-intense sort of love in a completely different vein, driven not only by a process of discovery of their unique personalities, which is how I build relationships outside of family, and learning to like them because of and in spite of personality differences, but by a biology- and hormone-driven fierce imperative to protect and nurture. That imperative lessened over time, as they took on more and more responsibility for themselves. But the discovery and liking more and more of their personalities grew into its own sort of love, both connected to and separate from the protection impulse.

For the space of our kids' childhoods, the intensity of DH's and my relationship took a slight step back. But both of us knew it was (relatively) short-term. And that's the way it's turned out. FWIW.

Yep.

Or to up the dramatic tension.

Really, putting her in jeopardy just doesn't really do it. Mainly because I"m pretty confident that she'll be fine.

Putting Dixon in the hospital, though, was a bit heart stopping cause they could totally kill him off. Which would be sad making.

JEALOUS over the just getting dressed thing!

I think I may not even go that far. Turns out, there are people who will bring food right to my door if I pay them enough.

I think the Coffee bean can wait until tomorrow.

Ha. Poor bean.