Alllriiight SparkyDH!!! Wooo! ::Dances & throws glitter:: You both worked so hard for this. And also managed to make it to the beach - very good multitasking!

Shall I drop newly employed cousin some subtle hints about proper ways to acknowledge awesomeness of wife? (Shooooooes... New tiara... Real Estate Section...)

And will we (you, actually, as I am made of crazy) be telling the grapevine this weekend, or waiting until you're home and 20-questions (to the third power) becomes more expensive long-distance? :)

ALL of our job-ma and interview-ma to MM!

Popping in to show off some pictures with Steph: [link]

Don't mean to be PDA with the schmoop, but I'm just really glad to be home.

No, no! I love the schmoop! I need to see more schmoop lately.

I have had a freaking roller coaster of a day.

Bad: Woke up at 5 am to Mr. Jane telling me he left the bank card in the ATM, and could I please ungrog myself enough to talk to CS so new ones can be sent. In 5-7 days.

Fwd of L's STBE's Tantrum email in which he blames her for having no money and an ulcer from noodles (I. Don't. Know.) with the stunningly unself-aware "Even if I started a job on Monday, I couldn't pay my bills for two weeks! You have ruined me financially!"

Phone call from Mr. Jane saying the ATM did not eat the card, but someone came right behind him and withdrew $280 from the account.

I think I have an idea who did it.

The Good: Kristin and Drew schmoop.

Translated L's email for her into the self-indulgent crap it really was.

She found an old high school friend of ours who we love beyond all reason.

Bank people were wonderful, and sympathetic. Account will be credited. We will send in affadavits and forms and promise to cooperate in any investigation.

Fucking thieves didn't get the $600 they originally tried to withdraw.

Vincent Price explains Cricket

Whoa. I think I might actually understand that game now. Thanks Vincent, you were one of my very first crushes. Seriously.

Speaking of crushes, I'm halfway through Season 2 of Beauty and the Beast. I can't get over how much I love that goofy kitty.

Crap, Dj, sorry about the ATM debaucle! Why do people have to be such asshats? I mean, really? I just don't get it.

I'm getting kitty schmoop now that I'm home. ND is at a meeting over at universal, but both cats have been in my lap and purring on and off over the last hour. I missed my kitties, too.

Unrelatedly, know what I don't like? That awful, stale smell of your house when you've been gone awhile. Ptui! I hope it doesn't smell like this normally, because I have every scented candle lit to try to tame it. Yuck. Not the litter box, either--this is something else I can't put my finger on. Might be something the new cleaning service used the first time they cleaned the place last week. Don't like it. Want my house to smell like home again.

Neither you nor ND has been home right? It's probably just that it hasn't had doors and windows opening and letting in fresh air, or even the normal smells of whatever perfumes or soaps or whatever stuff smells up the place (in a nice way) regularly.

My mother's house always smells like fresh laundry because there's almost always a load running at any given time.

Our friend (omnis on this board) was housesitting, and he's not a stinky guy, so I'm baffled. But...it will air out. I think it's probably just smelly cleaning stuff and yes, lack of my daily routine (which often includes laundry).

Popping in to show off some pictures with Steph:

Holy crap, I am fat and sweaty and should never wear horizontal stripes. Dear sweet Lord. Seriously, man. Seeing those pictures is actually upsetting to me. I am disgustingly fat. God.

At least my boyfriend is cute. (Why the hell is he with me???)

ION, Day 4 of migraine. Saw doctor, have Rx meds. Hoping meds will work. In bed, about to nap. Again.

Bad migraine, bad! No cookie!

Migraines NEVER get cookies.

I like it when you're sweaty, Tep!

In fact, looking at those pictures I thought: "Mmmm, sweaty Teppy" and also, of course, "Get a haircut, hippy!"