I suspect that on the way up I could have just shown one of the pictures of me posing with Ray Bourque and been waved on through.

It's probably true.

I have new passport pictures somewhere, and a renewal application somewhere else. I need to get on that.

I have been to England once, and to the US a handful of times.

I stayed home because my back was so sore I could barely move this morning. I have enough painkillers in me to kill a small dog right now, and still i have a headache.

I always think Paris is filled with ridonkulously cute people eating baguettes and bitching about politics.

Which, you know, I'm sure is well balanced by horrendously ugly people eating kentucky fried chicken bowls and bitching about growing out their mullets.

I think I'm going to make those condensed milk "magic" cookie bars now. So the question then becomes, bring them to work tomorrow for Clean-Up day, Wednesday for staff meeting, or Thursday for a coworker's birthday? Hmmm.

Then my sister sent me this article which totally got my dander up. I'd be pro big babe tennis if it were used to smash his head in.

OMG, could that twatwaffled asshat been any more insulting?

Then my sister sent me this article which totally got my dander up. I'd be pro big babe tennis if it were used to smash his head in.

Holy. Shit. I actually felt my eyes widen.

Why do people like him EXIST?

pumpkin, onions?

veggies over people. really.

I have a current US passport, but not current Canadian. Should get on that at some point. (Though really, with the new administration, it feels less urgent.)

I liked Spain a lot more than France overall.

Meh, I'm a HUGE JERK, so I think Paris won't bug me at all.

OTOH, I adored Moscow. My [brusque, cranky] people!

I never needed a passport for Canada driving up when I was a kid, but Dylan is a post 9/11 baby so he's had one since he was 6 months old. He looks nothing like his picture already.

My first US passport was at 15-16. Since they screwed up my date of birth and made me 3 years older, I used it as ID all the time.

I never had any issues on the trains in Europe, FWIW. I haven't been to the UK for almost 2 years, crazy. I went to Paris a few times when I was 19 years old and had a great time, the 2 times I went there by myself. (it was to and from Ireland, took the boat out of France). I didn't have much money and I didn't really speak to anyone, just wandered around and smiled.

I'd like to get back over to Ireland and visit Tom's niece and nephew.

For a while, we were over in the UK so often that we had our own Oyster cards to get around London. There are so many places I'd like to see again, and so many places I would like to see for the first time.