In case of cuteness emergency, break glass click link: [link] Vid of adorable albino ewok babies... or maybe they are Himalayan kittens. Whatever.

Accessibility~ma for Seska, and congrats on your certification.

House~ma for Plei.

There's a great song out there called Drag Queen Christmas.

I may need to track that down.

I've also got Dennis Leary's "Merry Fucking Christmas."

Somehow I think Sesame Street would be easier to get away with.

One of my coworkers (at my joking request) brought back some Real English Toffee from her trip to London. Oh, gods. Total foodgasm. Kraft Caramels should hang its HFCS head in shame.

And now... hair poll! I'm getting my hair cut tomorrow - going for the Rihanna look, as I have for the last year or so. [link] But since I got $125 worth of services for $65 at an auction, I'm going to do color as well. It's going to be red, about like juliana usually wears hers.

So my question is... red highlights or red all over? I think I'm leaning towards the latter. My mom's going to flip her shit... I wonder if she'll say anything about me ruining Xmas pics. I'll just tell her to fix it in Photoshop (not that she could, she struggles with Word).

Quiet-work~ma for Andi, and house~ma for Plei.

Steph, in America you'd be able to sue the airline for at least the extra costs of the trip. In other countries (I believe Australia is similar to the UK in this), there are massive loopholes in the laws on disability access that allow these companies to get away with a lot of crap. As much as I say we'll be sueing them (I think I can't spell that), we might well find that no lawyer is willing to take the case. If the EHRC is interested, we'll go for it. Otherwise, we could lose everything trying. It means the Disability Discrimination Act has no teeth, and companies know that. Hmph.

Accessibility~ma for Seska, and congrats on your certification.

Thanks, but not certified yet! Just accepted onto the trainers' course. It'll be the last in the various things I've needed to do to become qualified, so I'll finally be there. Which is exciting.

Just accepted onto the trainers' course.

Doh! So much for reading comprehension.

Speaking of reading, erika, I read your column. Good one! I liked it.

In less drastic but still slightly annoying airline!fail, Delta seems to have *not* sent me an email with my ticket for my January trip. But I got my trip insurance email, and the charge went through. The real fail is that I emailed them and got an auto-response saying they'd get back to me. In three to four days. WTF? Note to self: always save or print the confirmation page.

Hey P-C - just in case you haven't purchased the gift for the person who likes knitting:

Thanks, tommyrot! I already got the books, though. I have other friends who knit, however, so it's good to keep in mind.

I think I figured out why my parents seem to have done a 180 on my skipping the family cruise to go on a personal road trip: the family cruise got canceled. Good thing I didn't buy a ticket home or anything! Of course, I only found this out from my siblings.

Just skipping to the end to say that Jilli needs this:

Ooh, that is cute! But I now have no spending money, as I purchased a new purse (and other stuff) yesterday at the gothy craft fair: [link]

(I added the pink bow and the cameo ring.)

Argh. I ordered some cute slippers from myself and my mom from Land's End [link] and they are too small. I ordered the M, which should be 7.5 - 8.5. I'm normally an 8. I can't tell if it's pregnancy related or not and now I'm not sure if they'll fit my mom or not (she's also an 8). Anyone have any experience with their slipper/shoe fit?

GC, I've ordered shoes from Lands' End and they run true to size for me. In fact, I'm wearing a pair right now. I wear an 8W and these fit great.

Thanks, smonster!

We do get bonuses, too. Nothing much - about $100 cash the Friday before the holiday break, and people bitch about that. People, in general, will just bitch about anything. I hate people.

Dude. I've always worked for for-profit, and never gotten a holiday bonus! They need to STFU! (I mean, we usually have planned in that we're supposed to get a "bonus" at a different time of year, along with raises, but that doesn't necessarily happen, etc etc)

I am trying to fill out my self evaluation, and am not sure I'm doing it right. Also, I think it's still filled with my plans from LAST year, when I was working on a whole different project. Oops. Also, it's very easy for me to come up with soem areas where I need improvement, but hard for me to come up with "strengths".