I'm very disappointed to listen to the local news here. Various Chicagoland school districts are letting the kids skip school that day if the parents want them to, and the superintendents are leaving it up to the principals to decide if they're going to show the speech at all.

Sigh.

ImycatN, she cracked me up tonight. I was watching Part 2 of The Beatles Anthology that I had dvr'd this afternoon, and was singing along with "All You Need Is Love" when she decided she needed to jump onto my chest and get some petting. So, she's doing her usual routine after walking on top of me, which is stand with her back paws on my stomach and her front paws on one of my shoulders and meowing full blast. But, her meows are coordinated with the music I'm singing!

"All you need is love..."
"Meow!!"
"All you need is love..."
"Meow!!"
"All you need is love, love"
"Meow!"
"Love is all you need"

I’m sure as hell not letting Barack Obama talk to him alone.

This must be some strange new usage of the word "alone" that I was previously unaware of.

Officials say that LA fire was arson: [link]

Made two batches of muffins: blueberry and banana. My kitchen smells gooooood.

Officials say that LA fire was arson:

I may have to repress that for a little while. It makes me too angry.

Officials say that LA fire was arson:

There just aren't words.

Health care discussion on my Facebook page is a serious case of worlds colliding and I'm going into tech and won't be able to mediate. Oy.

Huh, I went to sleep about 9:30 last night -- when is the last time I got 9 hours of sleep w/o drugs being involved?

Don't wanna be at work.

I'm at work, but I'm alone. There may be napping.

I am taking all the advice aimed at sara, I really need to hydrate more and I need to stretch some during the day. I did something to my hamstring the other day and then two nights ago I had a massive calf cramp in the middle of the night. Then yesterday while favoring the leg because of sopreness from the cramp, I catch my foot on a stair and go tripping which re-pulls the hamstring. grrr.

I am in that mindspace where everything I am presented with seems like OMG! really! one. more. thing. **(example at end) BAD HEADSPACE. I need to get out of it pronto. And people are tired of me bemoaning and are starting to counter my complaints with devil's advocate scenarios, which honestly I am not ready to hear. Stuck in complaint and dwell on things mode is no good and just keeps me from moving on towards help and solutions, I know this (thus writing here to GET IT OUT). Today I will be "faking it, 'til I make it" as a moved on/take action msbelle.

• *Last night my buzzer buzzes and someone has left a fairly large bix at my door. I have not ordered anything so I am confused. For a second I think I was sent a surprise (and then think, this is pretty big, just as I am getting rid of tons of stuff, I am not sure this is what I need) and get a wee excited. Then I look at the address label and it is not to me, it is to a person I do not know at all, not a neighbor on my floor. So then I go to that headspace I mentioned above - OMG, now I have to deal with this, find who this belongs to, or find who sent it, or something. Turns out the apartment # has been reversed and it IS someone in my building. The End.