My stupid new thermostat is not doing what I told it to do (warm the house). It would have been nice if I knew this at 4, when I finished installing it, but now it is 8, and I really canna deal with the idea of a cold house all night. Damned technology. I should just light a fire in the living room.

Needless to say, I am ready for spring now.

I'm kinda with Jesse. And when you go back, a full metal meltdown in which workblood is shed. Just saying.

Turns out that puppycat gets really freaking paranoid(er) on it. So it's probably more fun for me that it is for her.

Devi, when in direct contact, gets a little paranoid. Very amusing. Mister Kitty just gets a little wild, and then super slobbery.

I knew one cat who would get completely drunk, stoned AND paranoid. Somersaulting kitty leaping into halloween cat and leaping sideways and falling over, staring blankly at umoving object sooo coool, maaan. It was hilarious. Then she'd crash, limp, for hours.

BUT: Sick day. Maybe take one.

One of my parent's Goldens is on tranqs cause she's neurotic. Good ones actually.

I would love to live on a beach!! That may be the plan.

OK, what is this TV One channel? I never heard of it, but I apparently DVRed Crooklyn, The Mighty Quinn, and Cry Freedom off it. Edit: After a quick google, it's apparently "lifestyle and entertainment" television for black people. And they're showing New York Undercover!! I might have to tape that, too. Totally new favorite channel.

OK, someone in the near apartments is doing braids. I smell burnt wool. I swear, since they knocked holes in my walls to put in the gas lines, I am far too intimate with my neighbors' olfactory lives....

OK, that's one part of the holiday that is fun: watching the animals go out of their furry little minds over various ornaments.

Hee--I just put up my tree for the first time since I got Amarna (last year's depression = no Xmas decorating last time around), and she is having fun staring at the lights and going after a wooden Christmas tree ornament that's dangling enticingly within her reach. I've put all my non-breakable ornaments within paw's reach, and I'm surprised by how few of those I have. I just hope when I come home from work tomorrow that the tree isn't laying on its side by her enthusiasm over reaching some of the higher-placed ornaments.

Kathy, coathook in the ceiling, fishing or other line to the top of the tree. Will save you much stress.

(We always had a live tree, which meant HUGE rootball that overcame launched cat.)

When I moved in, there were already two ceiling hooks that conveniently enough are placed on either side of the tree, so I'm thinking about picking up some fishing line just in case. But, the tree's base is so damn solid that it takes me quite a bit of effort to move it even a few inches, so she would have to do some serious jumping to knock it over (I hope!).

Seriously? That would be AWESOME.

I'll hook you up. I need to make a set for Jim E-T too as a belated wedding present too. If I let JZ loose on my Mojo mags, she'll do some custom made covers for you too.

I would also enjoy the Comfort & Joy tape I have from you on CD.

I'll double check my Comfort & Joy tracklisting, but I think I put most of those traditional songs on my Winter Grace CD mix. Which I will definitely post.

I'm so amused by the mix of grinchies and christmas people here.

OH! That's something I can get the nephew. A Grinch.