HA HA HA. God forbid there's a fire drill. I'm staying inside.

Jesse, Not that I am competitive or anything, but here was my morning:

Awakened at 4:30 by mechanical motor buzzing noises, sounds like a motor is trying to turn on but not succeeding, over and over and over. Earplugs do not drown it out, putting my humidifier on full on does. Get up at normal time, NO HOT WATER!! The cold and rainy stuff is the same as yours. Get to work, the building's fire alarm goes off WHILE I AM IN THE elevator! Does not stop for over 5 minutes, no announcements. After it has been off for 15 minutes they announce that it was a test.

All in all a sucky morning, but I am in a good mood, so I laugh at the silly bad morning.

Also? my cake? a big hit at work.

You might win, except for the part where I'm in a BAD MOOD.

My morning's great so far, and I don't intend to compete with y'all.

Hella insomnia, though. But no migraine, so I'm not trading. Waking up sleepy is just fine if I get to choose.

I too had insomnia. Or anyway, I woke up hourly, in that sudden way where suddenly I could hear the humidifier motor, where I hadn't an instant before.

No daylight lamps after 10pm for me!

I took a nice hot bath last night and got good and sleepy. Then I crawled into bed. Then the heartburn hit. By the time the heartburn was gone, so was the sleepiness. So I got three or four hours of sleep. But I did get plenty of sleep over the weekend, so I'm not doing so bad now.

OK, you know what helps? Getting super cute pictures of my friend's new baby. So cute!!!! Seriously, much cuter than the average newborn.

Trio is coming back as part of BravoNet, but it won't be back on TV, just the internets.

The idea of keeping a cake that's not going to taste good in a year confounds me.

My mother kept the top of my wedding cake for three years before I realized she'd ignored my requests to throw it out. She had this notion that if she did, I'd decide I wanted to defrost it and take a bite after all. Which, considering my wedding cake had both a custard and a fruit layer, um, NO. So I threw it out myself.

The greater the number of cute cues that an animal or object happens to possess, or the more exaggerated the signals may be, the louder and more italicized are the squeals provoked.

Awwwwwwwwwww.

I think it's theoretically possible for some CGI creature to posess high levels of both cuteness and Uncanny Valley-ness.

Someone should be trying to achieve this right now. Thus I decree.

Kismet is pretty fugly.

I felt bad about the last of his kind thing, but I didn't really feel it was inappropriate to kill a huge wild animal that was rampaging through the city stomping on people.

It was both appropriate and sad. I thought.

The necessity of the whole thing made it sadder for me. Internal conflict, yadda yadda.

What ita said.

Seriously, much cuter than the average newborn.

Funny how they almost all are, huh? Must be some seriously ugly¹ babies keeping the mean down.

¹: I was only kinda ugly², but doing my part, you know?
²: Trust me.

Seriously. I think the fact that he was a c-section helps, so his head didn't get squished.