So there are 3 new waterstains on the dining room ceiling. Small, but still. I need OUT of here. December was figure out the finances month, but that's gotten away from me. If I cn fit it in, I will, otherwise, deadline Jan.

I loathe water damage like nothing else. Talk about signs pouring down on my head. (Memo to self: make sure to get any possible roofs thoroughly inspected and have a roof contractor's number in your files when you buy.)

Dev is curled up next to MK. Loki was up here too but he went to get a drink. Futon is crowded with me and 3 cats!

Company xmas party was 5 hours. We could pick our menu. I got the steak salad with spicy lime dressing, spicy seafood (mussels, shrimp, and scallops) and chocolate cake. White and red wine with assorted beers available.

Company gift was a cutie wee porcelain tea set, everyone got a bonus.

The economy doesn't really touch our industry, not in any tangible way.

Our company party was cancelled (I never go anyway), but our department did a potluck/catered-but-we-all-chip-in lunch today. We were all grumpy about it because a.) all of us usually work at home on Fridays and b.) the director picked Greek food for it. Nothing says happy holidays like falafel! All of us would rather have skipped it. Bah humbug!

Hah and now I'm doing remote babysitting! T's parents are out at a holiday party and earlier (when he was out on an errand) one of her friends came over...and invited some friends T's dad didn't know. Anyway, he kicked them out and T is to not have any guests tonight. Since I can see into their place, she's to have all the blinds open, lights on, and I'm gonna keep an eye on her. I'll call over every so often and maybe even run over there. He trusts her mostly, but she kinda blew it when she let the friend's friends in earlier without asking.

Some neat rings here: [link]

I have no idea what to get my mother for Christmas.

I got mine a ship in a bottle? (She'd admired it when she was here last.)

My SIL is bugging me for what I'd like. I told her when I get a house, she can come out and help me pick colors and paint and put things up. Our tastes in stuff are different, but she really has a knack for arranging stuff, picking colors out so that they look right in a room and actually likes to do it. Whereas I'm all "Just put it up/away!"

I got mine a frying pan. She said she needed one, over Thanksgiving. Oh, and also a corny book.

I got my mom Obama's Dreams From my Father and Barbara Walter's new bio.

And...American Apparel has men's pink tube socks, and they have a store here. Yay.

I don't know what we got my mother. I was in charge of father. He's getting a leather-bound Levenger journal. For his writerliness.

I'm watching Catwoman. I hadn't considered how much it could suck, and how ludicrous Halle Berry could look. It's embarassing.