Happy New Year! Ended up playing strange monkey game on the PS2 for a while, then popped in Stardust - paused it at midnight to ring in the new year and then finished the movie.

Everyone else is still asleep or hiding upstairs. I still have the other family here - so will have to be SOCIAL this morning.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm 37. I feel oldish, but I'm sure that'll pass. I have a B&N gift card that I got for Christmas and haven't spent yet, and DH has promised me goodies from Cupcake Royale.

Music City Bowl

We saw this from the air yesterday as we were coming back from Birmingham. We changed planes in Nashville, and not long after we'd taken off, DH pointed out the stadium.

When we were waiting to board at the gate in B'ham, Annabel saw a little sandwich shop that purported to offer ice cream, and we decided to buy her a small cup. Unfortunately, when we got there we discovered the ice cream machine was broken, which led to much sorrow and anger on my daughter's part. I promised her that if nothing else, we could certainly get ice cream once we got back to Seattle, but I couldn't do anything about the absence of it in B'ham, and our layover in Nashville was too short to go looking for it.

She spent the entire 8 hours of our journey, not counting the hour or two she napped, thinking about that ice cream. At one point I was showing her the map in the back of the flight magazine because she's interested in maps, and in hopes that she'd understand how very long the Nashville-Seattle flight was compared to the B'ham-Nashville. A little later she had the map our herself, pointed to Seattle, and said, "We're going to Seattle. There's ice cream there."

So when we got home I ordered pizza from one of our regular places (Pagliacci has the chicken-rosemary-potato seasonal special, yum) and also requested a pint of chocolate gelatto. Now at one point in this long saga, Annabel had mentioned strawberry, but I forgot. And in my defense, AB adores chocolate anything, so I really did think I was getting her what she most wanted.

When I set the dish of chocolate gelatto in front of her after she was good and patient and ate a slice of pizza first, she cried. Because it wasn't strawberry. Then I almost cried, and DH talked to her and she cheered up and enjoyed the chocolate as soon as she had her first bite of it.

happy new year!

happy birthday Susan! (and making any ice cream whatsoever happen after a cross-country flight is a good trick)

Happy New Year!

I went to one party, then everyone seemed to be leaving about 12:30, so my friend and I went to another friend's party. There were some entertaining guests and my one friend and I didn't leave until after 6 am. Now I'm tired, but still amused.

Happy Birthday, Susan! May your 37th year be the best year so far, and may you finish your WIP or at least make very good headway!

Happy birthday, Susan! Poor Annabelle. Eight hours of ice cream yearning.

x-posted with my LJ...

Conversation I just had with my elderly, nosy neighbor (who I love dearly):

A: So, you have boyfriend now?
Me: What?
A: That boy that came to your house. He's your boyfriend?
Me: Oh. No. That's my brother.
A: Oh. That's too bad. Looks like nice boy. So, you have girlfriend instead? You like girls? That's ok now, you know.
Me: What?
A: That girl that was at your house a lot. She's your girlfriend? She's very pretty. I like her.
Me: Oh. That was my former roommate. She was just visiting for a few days.
A: Oh. Too bad. She's very pretty.

Sometimes I'm just a wee bit disturbed by how none of my actions go unnoticed.

We just had a failed attempt to pick up TCG's car. The place that was fixing it is also a gas station, so they said there would be a gas station attendant there we could pay and would have the keys to the car. We got there and no one was there.

It's snowing quite a bit here, and I'm trying to figure out if I should cancel therapy for tomorrow. I didn't go last week, so I should probably go, but I really hate driving in this stuff.

Sometimes I'm just a wee bit disturbed by how none of my actions go unnoticed.

But at least your neighbor is cool with your hypothetical sexcapades, regardless of which gender you pick!

(Seriously, that's making me giggle madly -- your elderly neighbor reassuring you that it's okay if you have a girlfriend!)

ION, I have no idea how it's already almost 3:00, but I suspect that sleeping until noon has something to do with it.

Seriously, that's making me giggle madly -- your elderly neighbor reassuring you that it's okay if you have a girlfriend!

Oh, yeah. It was hysterical.

You like girls? That's ok now, you know.

that's so cute