Is it wrong to confess it is my favourite time of year to talk to my colleagues further east of me (which is everyone) and taunt them? Because that won't stop me.

I do that to my sister (600 miles north of me) every winter. Which doesn't make it right, but does mean I'll share in the long-distance evil chortles with you.

In awesome news, my boss came back from lunch with a Fashion Snuggie!!

On purpose?

Crap. The power just went out on our whole block.

ION, I just discovered that our modem and router are on our UPS.

On purpose?

The commercials do make it seem like having a leopard print Snuggie is the source of all fun.

Excellent! Shared evil chortles! And I talk to people in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg almost every day, so that is a lot of chortling. If I'm not careful, I start to sound like my cat.

The commercials do make it seem like having a leopard print Snuggie is the source of all fun.

They also say you can put a Snuggie on your dog, don't they? Obviously evil.

On purpose?

Her friend bought it for her. It's frigging hilarious. Especially the picture where she has it "on" at her desk, with her headset on. I wish I could share!

Also, I had leftover Staff Appreciation Ice Cream. Now if I could only go home!

I want to go home more than I want ice cream.

It's Friday though! What do people have planned for the weekend?

Lily is keeping me company in the home office, drawing. She's working on something with a lot of grey clouds and blue slashes, and a bunch of what looks to be pampas grass. "Is it raining?" I ask.

"Yes," she says, very seriously. "It's a rainforest."

It's like a live-action literal video interpretation.

I am trying to avoid laughing my ass off, but seriously, it is both hilarious and adorable.

Ack, finances.

Anyone here have an account at ING and want to refer me? I should open an Orange Savings Account.