At my mother's, I spend a lot of time in the bathroom. It's the only place they'll leave me alone.

Having grown up in a house with 5 other people and one bathroom, this does not work at my parent's house. If I'm in the bathroom my sisters and mother will barge right in. It's crazymaking.

I hope y'all had a great NYE. I was at my friend's house in the country playing games with them and their friends. I am still bitter that they wouldn't allow "British English" as a legit language in Scattergories. Especially when the two expats repeatedly had to explain some of the Brit slang they were trying to use as words.

Report from the field: Bacon Salt is excellent in mashed potatoes. If there was any question.

Bacon Salt is also excellent on boiled eggs.

lalala, I can't hear the bacon salt talk.

I have a couple new Matilda pictures: [link]

how words in "unrelated" languages could only have identical sound and sense by "coincidence."

If Jesus Christ can't get everyone around the globe to agree that a rooster says "Cockadoodledoo," then the terrorists will win.

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock sayeth "Cockadoodledoo" , thou shalt deny me thrice. No really, they say "Cockadoodledoo," Dad-dammit!

In French, they say "Cocorico." In Greek, it's "Kikiriki."

To my ear, it actually sounds more like "Er Er ERRRRRRR!"

Bacon Salt is also excellent on boiled eggs.

It was good on scrambled eggs as well! Yay bacon salt! (Even though if -- don't tell anyone -- I still think it's just smaller bac-os.)

So my brother called to wish me a happy new year. In the background, D was going "Grrr. Ahrg." over and over. He's obsessed with the Grrr. Ahrg. monster from the Firefly credits.

I gave my brother the Firefly series for xmas. Somehow, he hadn't seen it, but rented the movie and had told me I HAD to see it, that it was awesome. "Uh, you know there's a series. That you gave me on DVD a couple xmasses ago?" "NO WAY!"

He loves it. Even if he only managed so far to see the first eps on every disk because he had lost the dvd remote and somehow didn't realize there was more than one ep on every disk. Buh? Sometimes, he is odd.

The lighting on [link] is just great.