I think flowers are great.

I'm thinking cupcakes for my editor and flowers for my agent, since I think she might groan at cupcakes.

I think that sounds lovely. I'm also wrestling with what to give my agent and editor.

perkins is there a drug store close by? I would go buy a pair of thick socks or some type of slipper.

I actually have a pair of sneakers in my office that I am now wearing.

They fixed the elevators, thankfully. Down is harder on my knee, and I'm pretty sure going down 8 floors in a non-emergency situation would end up involving me sitting on the stairs and bouncing my way down.

I've gotten coffee and teas as professional gifts and they were much appreciated.

When I left for work this morning, my apartment building's elevator was working, but reeking. It just stank like something had gone really stale, which I discovered when I got off on the first floor was due to the water all over the floor. I thought maybe something in the laundry room, across from the elevator, had sprung a leak, but when I called the management office, they told me it was the entire complex having issues with the pipes backing up. I hope they get it fixed today!

Well, I decided on flowers for my editor and rooster towels for my agent, which is a joke based on the manuscript she just sold.

Was it a book about using roosters as part of your daily hygiene?

My first cousins are like my brothers and sisters - almost all of them are 10 to 20 or so years older than me. I'm pretty sure I've met them all, but I wouldn't recognize most of them at this point, the big exception being my cousin who stayed in our home town. I don't see her often, but she rocks.

Hee--the Hotel Burnham in downtown Chicago has a Director of Pet Relations who is an adorable English Bulldog.

And, awww, beagle puppy plays with rottweiler!