OMG, cramps like crazy this morning. I'm lucky, this doesn't usually happen to me. How do you people who get this every month stand it? I need to get ready for work, but I think I'll sit here and whimper a while longer.

I cope by complaining a lot and taking a lot of ibuprofin. I think the complaining is the more important part, really.

Toto has decided that his new favorite food is yogurt. About a week ago, Emily came to help me with something, and she left her yogurt on the table next to her. We came back out to find Toto up on the couch slurping the yogurt out of the container...happy as could be. Now, whenever we go to the fridge and get out yogurt for breakfast, he sits patiently and waits for his serving.

Silly dog.

Also, poor Brenda. That was me on Sunday. It's no fun.

Oh, good, halfway there then.

My dog also loves yogurt. But he prefers peanut butter. I had a b&j sandwich for breakfast and he came and rested his chin on my knee and gazed up at me soulfully while I ate. He only does that for peanut butter and chili.

Ok, so some scary stuff ahead. I've decided it's time I started dating. Naturally, I have no idea how to do it, but I keep meeting nice people on the internet, so I thought I'd start there. I've signed up to a couple of websites, and I wanted to ask if anyone so inclined could do me a favour and check out my profile and offer any impressions of how I come across, and if I can improve it in any way. My profile appears here, which I completed without bringing up penguins or echidnas, but I think monkeys get one mention: [link]

Thanks. (And if anyone here was thinking of asking me out, I probably won't be able to pick you up. I may have to meet you at the restaurant, if that's ok.)

Happy Birthday Tepsters!

Lucy won't touch peanut butter, which most dogs really love.

Funniest thing ever was when a neighbor made us a big pot of mulligatawny stew, and Lucy went freaking insane. The smell, the leftovers...for months, whenever we took that pot out, she'd get really excited. She'd try to steal the tupperware that it originally came in, and sneak it away and lick it out, even though it had been washed several times. I don't know if it was the curry or what, but I've never seen anything like it.

excellent profile, billytea!

billytea -- looks good. I must have skipped the monkeys.