I have scored free office champagne (Roederer's - good stuff), and chocolate. The afternoon is saved.

I am getting paid to drink champagne.

Considering the effect champagne has on me, I could do that. And get busted by a vice cop.

Just read 400+ messages, and have nothing coherent to say (may also have to do with the flexeril and vicodin) except--how was I to know Grey Goose was pricey? I'm not sure I got that far in my b.org research.

Back from the South Coast, back home in Kingston. Vacation was brief and, well, it sounds weird to say relaxing when this bit of the vacation (ie not at the beach) is relaxing, and that bit about being in LA with no job isn't as stressful as it should be.

But it was.

Now I'm sorting digital photos and contemplating dinner.

Haven't had many good (recent) NYEs. This year is unplanned although a friend promises to invite me to a rocking bash. Maybe. Mostly I'm arriving at LAX at 8pm and will want not much more than food and sleep, I suspect.

I was just at the eye doctor's, and she dilated my eyes. The drive home was interesting, and it took me 6 minutes to park my car (those of you who have seen my parking space may actually be impressed it only took me that long.)

I'm at home early and am using my free time deleting duplicate files from my My Music folder. My life is so exciting!

how was I to know Grey Goose was pricey?

Speaking of insane price markups, here's a detailed exposé about The Noka Chocolate Company.

So, if you buy Noka's 48-piece Vintages Encore box for $100, you're getting about the same amount of chocolate you would have gotten by buying one 100-gram Bonnat bar at a retail price of $7.50. That's a markup of more than 1,300% over the retail price.

Lee, that's kind of...scary.

This past christmas trip home was the most relaxing xmas I've had in, um...4 years. I love my brother, nephew and SIL, but returning to old traditions and having no grand agenda (other than shop) and no drama was delightful.

It was also the first time I've mixed parents with friends from adulthood. They briefly met friends in college, but that was basically hellos at graduation, so it was kinda a milestone that hadn't occured to me until it was upon me. It was very good.

They let you drive yourself home after dilating your eyes? I always had to bring a driver when they did that.

My life is so exciting!

I'm watching a Ray Davies special on Ovation. But it's only 8:30 and I'm contemplating going to bed.

They let you drive yourself home after dilating your eyes? I always had to bring a driver when they did that.

I wouldn't have if I didn't think I could do it safely, and I'm pretty sure she knew that. It was safe, too, just very very cautious.

I'm spending the evening reading fanfic and listening to my Christmas-gift CDs--"Love" by the Beatles, and greatest hits albums by Elton John and Depeche Mode; it's been forever since I've heard "I Just Can't Get Enough," and the cat was looking at me strangely when I started bopping around the dining room as soon as I heard the opening notes.