I'm patting myself on the back for remembering to write my rent check. I got really used to getting a bill each month, and even then I generally paid after the 1st. Now I just have to mail it.

If I had to mail my rent cheque I'd either get evicted or have to grow up. I think I'd have to do it electronically through my bank or it wouldn't get done. As is, I just have to go downstairs, and that takes me days.

Just back from Sherlock Holmes! (ita, have you seen it?)

Reason #9999,999 why I love my mom: She called last night, bubbling over with enthusiasm after watching the "Kennedy Center Honors." Thought she is 82, all of us being Springsteen fans rubbed off on her and she is one too. She told me that I would love the whole Bruce segment, and that she was VERY impressed with a "nice young man who is an excellent singer." She wanted to know if I ever heard of this young man, Eddie Vedder.

She told me that I would love the whole Bruce segment, and that she was VERY impressed with a "nice young man who is an excellent singer." She wanted to know if I ever heard of this young man, Eddie Vedder.

Hee!

I know my 90 year old grandmother watches the Today Show, so I feel comfortable saying things to her like, "You know Beyonce, right?" But I still think it's kind of weird that she does!

I think I'd have to do it electronically through my bank or it wouldn't get done.

Yeah, I should set that up -- that's how the rest of my bills get paid.

ita, have you seen it?

Christmas Day, let me tell you. And not a moment too soon. Did you have fun? I thought it was big fun, and Law and Downey were having much fun too.

Nerd Neighbor: I swear, I'm going to find the guy who invented the mute button and, I don't know, put booze on his grave. (After having a brief, intense rant about the person he's on the phone with)

Law was excellent and much more less JUDE LAW than I was worried he'd be. While one can handwave Holmes, Law's Watson was not quite Watson at all and more like House's Wilson instead.

Very fun movie. I found the bacon/pig scene totally revolting.

There are days when no insurance and self-pay, and sliding scales, are a lot easier on the mind--and even the pocketbook!--than treading the labyrinth of insurance in this country. (ETA--for reasonably healthy adults with no kids at home, and chronic illnesses that don't require expensive treatment and medication. I know not everybody falls into this category, really I do)

msbelle, that is a poignant story, but what a wonderful ending. Or, middle, actually. I loved the C&H story, too.

Brenda, ooh, smonster had a good idea. Ideally, you could regift the books among the folks who gifted them to you in the first place, just, you know, scramble 'em and hand 'em out.

I'm afraid I (really. No, really--I've done it before, more than once) would march over to loud!coworker, smile sweetly and say, "I'm so happy you had a wonderful vacation. Sort of makes up for the ones of us who didn't get one, I guess, right? While you've been gone we've been sort of enjoying the lower-key and quietness of the office and getting quite a lot done. Now that you've shared your excitement, we'd appreciate the quiet. Thanks so much!" Nobody EVER said I was a nice person. Or if they did, they didn't know me.

I am so pleased with myself that I have things ready to submit my dependent care reimburseable tomorrow to empty out my account.

Still need to figure out medical and get in insurance claims.

Less cool is that none of the childcare expenses since August are getting covered. I wonder if it will be enough to deduct on taxes?