In case you were all wondering, Toto is still cute: [link]

Wow, lj-freakiness. But I hope -- cool freakiness.

Meanwhile, I just washed a bunch of bowls and pots and mugs and the water got to about lukewarm and then went cold again.

Sigh.

That is really freaky.

Toto is cute.

It's rather like being on vacation in Las Vegas and running into someone who lived next door to you in Pittsburgh 20 years ago. The internet just creates an environment where we don't have to leave the comfy couch to run into people from different times and places of our life. I like it.

Exactly. Six degrees of separate bacon, people.

Hi Raq!

I skimmed that you were going to be DC bound at some point. Woot! When will this happen? You have family in that area, right?

Although I look forward to seeing you again stateside, I sure would have enjoyed a Greek visit. No, I wouldn't have broken your dinnerware.

Toto is very cute.

I hope everything works out with the stateside assignment, Raq. I know you were concerned about how it would impact DH's career.

I want to see many people again, preferably in smaller clumps, though. We should have a party at Laura's house!

Nick turned 21 on Thursday. For his birthday, he wanted us to go to a hotel and let him have the house last Saturday so he could have a party and not worry about noise. We agreed, I booked the room through hotels.com, and last week I discovered that we were being charged twice, once by hotels.com and once by the hotel. I called hotels.com, they checked into it, the hotel said they'd fix it. Peachy. Then yesterday I was checking something else and realized that they hadn't fixed it (deducted $10.00) and that we were perilously close to the line for the middle of a pay period. The hotel steadfastly denied charging us; the bank said we'd have to charge the hotel with fraud if we wanted our money back, and I was counting pennies to put in the gas tank. After many telephone calls back and forth to everyone, the kindly bank lady told me that the correction will appear on our bank account on Tuesday. The hotel still says they never charged us at all, but they fixed it, so I guess that's what counts. Since Nick and his friends didn't break anyone, didn't garner any complaints from the neighbors or the police, and didn't eat us out of house and home, I guess we got off lucky.

Now I need to return the Christmas tree I bought so we can get a little bit better one since this one, while looking like a great deal in the store, was actually more expensive and less cool than another one I saw in a different store (after I bought this one, of course).

edit: break anyone... I meant anything, but anyone works too.

Twenty-one! Wow. And what a nice mom you are to pack up and leave for the night -- although the double charging would have freaked me right out. Yay for Nick, an official, card-carrying adult!

I think the LJ thing is pretty cool. After all, that's what posting schools is supposed to facilitate. So strange that a guy P-C met briefly went to school with our own Empress. Small world, indeed.

Raq, we'll all be glad to have you Stateside, so I hope it's a good thing.

::hugs Laura, just because::

Happy Belated Birthday to Nick!!! I cannot believe he is twenty-one.

Twenty-one! Wow.