You'll have to introduce me to him sometime.

His boss works him too hard.

webcam for the win. Matt just walk his mom around our house and made her jealous because of the plants in bloom. She is just so happy to see him

Having seen the news - can I just check that all our LA people are okay?

Tennant is only four years older than me!

He's four years younger than me. Good thing I have no issues with younger men.

Except he doesn't like living with animals,

Oh... that's not good. I suppose it's not meant to be for us either.

Good thing I have this other guy in my life that I kind of love a lot.

Yeah, ditto.

Having seen the news - can I just check that all our LA people are okay?

Are you referring to the Santa Claus shootings?

Merry Christmas!

I had a low key pre Christmas with the parents. The main Christmas will be here when my bro and SIl and nephew are here around the first of Jan.

I got a Cusinart stainless steel cookware set, yay! and immediately made something in my 12" skillet.

And I got a cool book about the history of cooking in America with exrepts from books.

At the family lunch my aunt made Sangria. And judging by my headache and how many typos I keep making I'm going to say I'm still tipsy. I didn't even drink that much! but she gave me a red plastic cup and it was strong. But good. I did not drink the whole thing and that was hours ago but I don't have a head for alcohol.

Are you referring to the Santa Claus shootings?

Yes, that. I realise it's a bit shallow as a response, but one's first thought is always 'Where is it happening? Can any of my loved ones be involved?'

I mean - it's somebody's loved ones, so it's not like there's a silver lining here. But just wanted to be sure my Buffistas are all okay.

This Christmas was really ... well it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I mean, at times it sucked,but.. I dunno maybe the Sangria helped. Maybe it helped that I was the youngest person there for awhile, or my cousin's daughter told me all about her Webkinz, and her American Dolls and how it doesn't make sense they are retiring Samantha (the first and most popular) and then I chatted with her dad for awhile.

But I had my teary moments yesterday and the day before. I'm going , one day this weekend, out to my cousin's grave. He touched so many people, as a massage therepaist, and he didn't have clients so much as he had friends and family. A man that worked with another aunt of mine was a client, well the man and his partner, and they were unable to come to his funeral. But the told this Aunt (Aunt B) that they hoped Aunt J wouldn't mind or be upset, but they bought a little Christmas tree and put on his headstone.

I must be having a delayed reaction because now I can't stop crying.

oh noes!

Eartha Kitt has died.