Or maybe it was just me.

Group Hug?

Always up for a group hug. I watched Legion and stayed for Spider-Man. Now I can blame Sheryl for my getting nothing done this morning! Yay?

::contentedly snuggles up with Perkins and Theo::

Balloon lost in the sky with diamond

See, I'd be thinking, "Gee, there's a possibility of something going wrong with this plan...."

It had seemed a romantic and highly original way to propose to the love of your life with a £6,000 diamond ring.

Lefkos Hajji, 28, wanted to make his engagement one his girlfriend would never forget, only to have his dreams cruelly snatched from his grasp by a gust of wind.

Rather than simply dropping to one knee before Leanne, 26, he told a florist to put her engagement ring in a silver helium balloon.

But no sooner had he left the shop when his plans backfired spectacularly and the balloons blew away - taking the ring with them.

Keeping his prize in sight, Mr Hajji, from Hackney, London, pursued the balloons for two hours in his car across London before giving them up as lost.

He told the Sun newspaper: "I couldn't believe it. I just watched as it went further and further into the air.

"I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me.

"I though I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question."

While Mr Hajji hopes the ring will still turn up, his girlfriend, as he suspected, was apparently less than impressed.

Florist Helen Savva, of Cockfosters, London, told the newspaper: "I thought he was taking a risk. I said, 'I hope you hold onto it'."

eta: He should have named the balloon 'Lucy.'

He is definitely a plonker.

I have now assured various relatives that I am fine, even though downtown looks like it was visited by the Cloverfield creature.

For those of you would would like to see what the aftermath of Tornado vs. City looks like: [link]

Wow. Those pictures are a little frightening. So glad you and the dog escaped damage, Ginger.

Also, that's the third time in two days I've seen sever as an alternate spelling of severe.

Well, I feel better now about being too lazy to stretch after my run this morning. (NYTimes)

The most efficient runners, those who exerted the least effort to maintain a pace, were the stiffest.

Oh, wait, no, that's not good. I don't want to be efficient: I want to burn more calories! Huh.

Damnit. I thought, because you can file for a week starting on Sunday, that you could file for the previous week through Saturday. Apparently you have to file by Friday. CRAP.

Just not what I need right now.

Is there a French speaker in the house?

I need a translation of the following:

I wish I'd never married you, you treasonous bitch!

Thanks!