Am now imagining Jesse Helms as a panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and Drew Carey ascending.

Holy Moses! I just woke up. I wasup earlier to feed the cat and pee, and I fell back asleep. I am still sleepy.

Throw in starting 3 loads of laundry, and Sophia stole my morning.

Happy July 4th, from the Muppets!

Love!

Muppet Fourth, FTW!\\o/

Sorry to hear about Frankie, Louise. Man, it's a bad time for pets. everyone, please give your pets extra hugs.

Jesse Helms has died. I still think of him as the evillest man in politics.

Having met Helms on more than one occasion I have to say the thing that made him evil is that he was actually extremely personable and charming. I've even seen him topless!

I, too, read that as Jesse Helms had been on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and was a little shocked. Or a lot shocked.

You know, it's not that I don't believe that a FtM could be a good parent -- it's that I have all kinds of skeevy reservations about a publicity-seeking FtM.

Yeah, I'm a little skeeved about it too. Cause yes, they got a lot of shit from people. But...y'know, that's gonna happen. Every FtM I know gets shit in a gyno's office when they go in for stuff, if they still have their reproductive organs. Or if they go in to get them checked out before getting them taken out. OMG, the funny-ass shit a friend of mine went through in the hospital when he was getting a hysterectomy while he had a full beard? PRICELESS!! But also a little dangerous. But not surprising at all, either. And in these days when people get the wrong LEG chopped off sometimes, it should not surprise anyone that people go "Wait, this guy is the one getting a uterus taken out, what??"

He was picking his GF up at the airport today. I told him he's gotta be there w/flowers. Hasn't seen her in a month. He didn't really get it, and then suddenly wanted to be the guy waiting there with the flowers and got all panicky about not having time to get them due to project deadlines. So I picked up a small bouquet of roses in various shades of lavender. It was simple and pretty and sweet-smelling.

I told him that it's terribly endearing to arrive after a five hour flight to a guy with fresh flowers in hand, and also, there's the audience factor of "awww, that's my man right there with the flowers for me. That's right. You're all jealous."

Advice I once got from my friend T.: Flowers are always the right answer. So very true.

And yeah, Allyson didn't get the credit, but sometimes guys need a little nudge. The hope is that he will remember this next time.

(Btw, what did ND say when I just "awwed" about this? ND: "So I should hire a homeless guy to hand you flowers when you fly somewhere?" Me: *dirty look* ND: "So you're telling me that who has the flowers matters." @@ Such a romantic.)

Muppets 4th of july -- perfect.

We will be going to a friends house later-- just to eat and hang -- and to try out C's new peach cobbler recipe -- I like food holidays

Are there holidays that aren't food holidays?

Well, many other holidays have food + some other obligations/expectations.

I'm now watching the founder of the place I used to work on Charlie Rose, and damn he looks good for 90+.