LOVE the Israel F2F photos!

Had to skip to exclaim:

Ate Chinese food at 5 Happiness

Oh, that makes me very happy! That was our CHinese place after Kung's closed - love the duck.

Have marked Nora's post or lesurely nostalgic reading and link clicking...

Thank you for posting the pictures, Shir!

I do still feel like hell, and I had a low fever at the doctor's office, so I guess I wasn't overreacting by going in to see him.

I hate sitting in the doctor's office and arguing with myself over whether or not I'm sick enough to be there. I'm always worried that the doc will say something along the lines of, "You have a cold. Geez, lady, deal with it like the rest of the world does and stop wasting my time." Which has never happened but I always worry about it. More often than not it's, "You really should've come in sooner". And that's my round-a-bout way of saying that I'm glad you got yourself into the doc, Tep.

Actually, here's a dose of health~ma for all the Bitches. Sounds like we could use it.

No real plans tonight. DH is at work and will probably be exhausted when he gets home. That's ok, though. We're having his parents over tomorrow for a postponed Christmas lunch / dinner, so I've been cleaning today in preparation for that. I'm fairly exhausted already. Someone at work asked if I was doing anything special and I said, "Hell yeah! We're partying like fuckin' rockstars! Right up until about 10p or so and then we'll probably go to bed." I tell ya, we're just a couple of geezers.

You mean you aren't going to show up here with Suzi and Kelly and surprise me?

It's your turn, you know.

Happy New Year to all Buffistas. Or:

As the leftover flower children (still fairly plentiful here in Olympia) would say: "Hippy New Year".

As the woman who raises rabbits about eight blocks from here would say: "Hoppy New Year".

As the retired Marine Sargent at the Senior Center would say: "Hup Hup Hup Huppy New Year".

It's not really a surprise if I do it the very next year, silly. Don't worry, though. I'll get you back one day.

Man, last year was awesome.

It was! Please do come visit, some day. There is no snow here.

I am going either bowling, or to see Crystal Method. No idea which yet.

"Hoppy New Year"

Thought that was the microbrewer.

I know this is in Natter, but I'll say it here anyway...my instinct is that Phoebe Buffay would be the best female-Friend F. She's probably pretty unshockable, and she's a massage therapist. Rachel's very pretty, but they make those emery-board jokes for a reason, and Monica is a neat-freak.(Monica and I would get on best with our clothes on, though.) So F Phoebe C Rachel M Monica Wow, I used to be pretty straight before this board. Now, I'm all about Friendly femmeslash. Real life: I think F Perry C-Leblanc(hopefully we'd stay, well, Friends) M-Schwimmer(and this is a bit crass of me, but Schwimmer and Doug Ellin from Entourage are total BFFs, so maybe I'd end up with a husbandAND Networking too.) The womenfolk: F- Aniston C- Cox-Arquette- but only cause you gotta chuck somebody. I'd like to take her out and buy her pasta, cause she's prettier heavier. M- Kudrow. I think she is probably a good partner cause she stays out of the tabs.