you still have snow coming down, vw?

No, I guess not. I'll stop complaining now :).

We're getting flurries. . . because we clearly don't have ENOUGH snow already.

I'm trying to con my family into this fake tree. So far, no luck.

Am home today with a migraine. Not cool. Too much work work and school work. The computer is hurting my head, but I had to check on school stuff, which in turn made me want to check in my buffistas.

Sleep now.

I made the mistake of putting a cheaper brand of antifreeze in my car this summer. I'm feeling it, now.

Anne, power-ma to you. It sucks completely being without power in the winter.

in Long Beach. Every time someone says "Long Beach, I hear Dre saying "What up, dog?"

funny thing from before. oƒcourse, this funny on little sleep-- they kept calling for people over the intercom, and saying "John Smith (or Mary Jones or whoever), the door is about to close on your aircraft" and every time, I thought they were going to say "the door is about to close on your ass."

power ma~~~ Anne.and I am glad you have some sort of answer now.

Staying home today. This is not a bad cold , but I feel like I need more rest. so , I am listening. DH is a little crazy. I fought off 500 hundred biullion bugs, and I seem to have been caught by one. and it is one of those where I don't feel that bad, 'til I do something( like sweep up cat litter) that makes me feel tired. So I am paying attention. But because I decided to stay home , he is being all worried. I am trying to prevent the illnesses of last year. part of me is annyed that he is being so worried, and part of me is feeling guilty for makeing him worry over a cold.

Poor Vortex with the lack of sleep!

I bought a 14" live tree yesterday from Trader Joe's. It's very pretty, and smells nice.

However, my iPod is now dead like a dead thing. Wah.

More power to ya, Anne.

Feel better, beth.

My cars are not really named but called "Schleppalong" or "Goofinoff" or, in the alternative by color, e.g., "Little White Car."

Bay Area Folks: We went to the Parkway last night to see Shut Up and Sing, and they announced they will be showing 3 Firefly episodes on Dec. 28th because their Buffy nights have been such overwhelming successes. The DH and I will be out of town, unfortunately.

I grew up with fake trees because I was allergic to the real ones. No fun spending xmas in a nonstop leaky eyes sneezefest.

So we had the classic space age silver tree in the early 70s with rotating color wheel. Oh, it was completely mesmerizing watching the color wheel turn and cast the tree with amber........green......blue......red.

Later we got a more complicated green tree with carefully shaped branches and a complex assembly schema. It was my job to assemble the tree every year, and I would always do it on the night The Little Drummer Boy aired. Then I'd eat the rock hard commercial fruitcake we'd get from our Georgia relatives and drink eggnog.

Typically I'd top it off by playing the Nutcracker Suite from our Time Life collection of Light Classical Music. Then I'd dance all around the living room, jumping on the couches and leaping over the hassock, or bouncing off the hassock and onto the couches.

Then in my late teens I lost my allergy to the real trees and we went back to real trees.

I kind of miss the aluminum one with the color wheel though.