Happy New Year, everyone! And Happy Birthday, Susan!

So, my cunning plan was to go to Trader Joe's today, but it occurs to me that they will not have re-stocked from yesterday, and therefore will probably not have the mushroom turnovers I love. Not that that is all I'm planning to buy. Hmmmm.

TJ's let me down and didn't have any Snapea Crisps when I went there last week. Usually I stock up on a couple bags, because they usually price them at $1.49 (1.99 at Whole Paycheck!).

It's hard to describe Snapea Crisps -- sort of like if you made Cheez Doodles out of peas, but left out the Cheeze? Anyway, they're yummy, crisp, and chock full of goodness, and I bless the impulse that made me buy a random bag for a party on the basis that if I didn't like them, somebody else would.

Are they even open today?

2008 got one last kick in when the power cable on my laptop crapped out last night. Feh.

Are they even open today?

Ooh, interesting question. It never occurs to me that things will be closed ever. And after checking, they are indeed closed. Tomorrow, then! Thanks for mentioning it, because that would have been annoying.

Oh, and if anyone was wondering, I do apparently still have the disputed cable channels on my Time Warner cable.

Jesse, I saw an item that said that the dispute had been resolved, so disaster averted.

Back when we had TW here instead of Comcast, we actually had really great service, but then Somerville is a rare 2-cable-system town, which did indeed mean they tried harder.

I neeeed cofffeeeeee!

I love the snap pea crisps. I wish TJs was closer.

It never occurs to me that things will be closed ever.

There was a near riot at the post office yesterday, because it had closed at 2 p.m. without any particular notice AND the stamp/package machine was broken. The website and the printed notice on the building said it would be open, but there was a handwritten "will close at 2" sign and it was 2:30. About 20 of us were milling about and begging answers from the one unfortunate postal employee who came out into the lobby. I wanted to get a proof of mailing certificate for a payment I wanted counted on '08 taxes. Most of the other people were also slackers who had something that needed to postmarked by the end of the year. A very nice woman who couldn't mail her package gave me a stamp (I tried to pay for it, but she said, "Merry Christmas.") and the poor postal employee swore it would be postmarked yesterday.

Ah, coffee is had. Now I have the kids here with me to watch the Rose Parade on tv.

Every so often I have these moments of kind of uncanny memory when I do something with my kids that I did a gazillion times when I was a kid growing up. It's hard to explain, but it is as if I can feel the presence of me and my siblings there alongside my own kids. It is a good feeling. Plus Stefanie Edwards is back.

Oh, happy birthday Susan!

Well, I don't know if this was 2008 getting one last lick in, or 2009 starting badly, but I just found out friends of mine had to put their elderly cat to sleep this morning. Enough, already!