(I know I mention it a lot, but I really am having a hard time dealing. It's...not what I expected. Sorry for the whole "death likes carrots" thing.)

No need to be sorry, love. I wish that I could do something to make you feel better. Um . . . boobies?

It is annoying, but it fits within the spectrum of stories that Curtis was trying to tell. I'm just sad that the story of the school principal was cut for length.

I like U2's Baby, Please Come Home as Christmas music, and some of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's really bombastic stuff. I will claim my love of the '80s power ballad to my grave.

(I know I mention it a lot, but I really am having a hard time dealing. It's...not what I expected. Sorry for the whole "death likes carrots" thing.)

Aw, honey...I'm so there with you. Just yesterday, I 'saw' my beloved Kim driving down the road. I asked her a question and she answered with her characteristic energy. The fact that she died in September '09 doesn't seem to have diminished my need for her in my life.

Peace to your heart, balanced meds and every warm wish coming your way.

Steph, you still get Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby," which always makes me happy.

Y'all are reminding how much I hated the Colin Firth story line in Love Actually. Really, the only characters that redeemed that movie were Thompson and Rickman, but then I'd watch it again for them alone.

Rickman is always an excuse to watch a movie, even January Man.

Andi and I have today and tomorrow off together, then she has the weekend off without me. Sigh.

Work is getting sucky for me, they have changed so much and are regimenting a process by which all info and troubleshooting is codified and eventually to be scripted. Um, I'm a good troubleshooter *because* I am not regimented. I can take disparate elements in what they say and synthesize a whole path of repair. It's one of my strengths. It also bodes ill for pay raises when any schlub and read a troubleshooting guide and do my job, badly. (Not that I've had a raise in 3 years, or a bonus in the past several months.)

sigh, but I'm home now and andi is napping, and I'm trying to scrape together cash to pay for my $2000+ in copays.

OTOH? I have paid off all of my debt from back in diabetic unemployed days, no more cc debt, and now the credit repair may commence.

I have paid off all of my debt from back in diabetic unemployed days, no more cc debt

That is awesome. That is HUGE! I hope you're proud of yourself, because you should be.

Didn't Sophia recently pay off her cc debt, too? Go Buffistas, rocking the finance!

The way forward is not easy,Daniel, but you are doing it. good job

I'm sorry work and bills are sucking, DCJ, but paying off your credit card debt is an enormous accomplishment. Go you! Go Sophia!