I spent a couple of months working in Atlanta on a detail some years back -- winter of -- 1992 maybe? Not quite the same as living there, but I remember it fondly.

Atlanta itself is cosmopolitan enough that being a Yankee is more a curiosity than a point of contention (though I won't promise that'll hold true outside the city).

That's about all I remember.

I was gonna say, I think my combined electric and gas bills per month for my house are about $160/month in the dead of winter.

Metro Atlanta won't even notice you're a Yankee, Eddie. Rural Georgia might be another question. We have what is called the "two Georgias:" Atlanta and everywhere else.

Topic!Cindy – Today is the 6th birthday of Narrator!Niece a/k/a Princess of the Pink. I visited her yesterday to deliver her tribute gifts. The princess was pleased. She got a CareBear and announced “I collect these!” (she has 3). She also got a t-shirt and gift certificate from Limited Too, and proclaimed “I love that store!” (she’s been there once, for Older!Sister). Still, it was nice to see her excited.

By the way, it was my first trip into Limited Too. That’s a lot of pink there.

Oh, happy birthday to her! These little ones are getting old too fast, and each year, they're closer to world domination.

Clearly, you are a superior auntie, by the way. Good choices. I'm not even going to tell Julia about them. Lately, I've been being badgered into taking her to Build-A-Bear.

a friend of mine from high school who had gone to UVA came home for fall break HATING it. Why? Everyone wanted to smile and say hi to her on the street!!

Ha! The nice, be-suited Mormon missionaries come down my street every night when I'm coming up it, and say hi to everyone along the way. I don't think they're really helping their cause doing that, because I certainly don't say hi back to strangers.

Zap2it has an article about Bradley Cooper's new show. They spell NB's first name "Nicolas" -- I didn't know that he didn't use an "h" in there.

It amuses me that NB's character is named "Seth".

I have to pay heat in my new apartment and I am dreading it. It is a little odd, because I just found this out yeaterday, and I made my decision to rent this place based on the "no heat payment" clause.

I am also on tenterhooks about the possibly not being able to move on Friday thing. After setting up the movers it is a little scary!

I am trying to tell myself that the worst case scenario is that we can have the movers move everything into one room (that they are not working on) and sleep on a friends couch or something!

Also, houses new owner called to be sure I would be out on Thursday, and said that my old landlord's lawyer had said that I already had my security deposit back. Which I don't. So now I have to deal with that!

Why is moving so stressful?

Also, apparently my new apartment likes carrots

Mmm.

Former Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall has found love with her London theatre co-star Alexander Siddig. Cattrall, who dated 27-year-old Canadian chef Alan Wyse until earlier this year, starred opposite the Sudan-born actor, 39, in West End hit Whose Life Is It Anyway? until April. Cattrall, 48, starred as Claire Harrison, a woman paralyzed from the neck down, who enjoys a flirtatious relationship with the handsome Doctor Scott, played by the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor. At British magazine Glamour's Women Of The Year Awards in London on June 9, where Cattrall picked up Theatre Actress Of The Year, the couple went public for the first time on the red carpet. A theatre source says, "Their chemistry is amazing."

I don't care about Cattrall much, one way or another, but I am happy Siddig is getting press as well as action.

Why is moving so stressful?

In your case, because you're dealing with asshats! (In all other cases, blah blah upheaval-cakes.)

Oh, happy birthday to her! These little ones are getting old too fast, and each year, they're closer to world domination.

She was very proud that now she needs TWO hands to show how old she is.

Lately, I've been being badgered into taking her to Build-A-Bear.

I heard about that place. Is it a one-time trip or does she want to keep going back and building more bears?