Suela - I think you need a do-over for a couple of weeks.

That would be nice, except they finally did post the job announcement, and I wrote about 10,000 words of fiction in the last week, and I would hate to miss out on either of those.

Still, new sinuses would be great. And nobody call me: I sound like a frog.

MEGAN! I know you want to do the Madonna Inn, but if I may make a counter-proposal? Our friend C. has a season pass at a mountain about 90 minutes from us, and we've been thinking about renting a little cabin for a weekend for us all to go play sometime in the next couple of months. I'm just re-learning (last year was the first time I'd been in forever) and ND has never been, so it could be a blast!

I approve of this message.

no electricity in house. meter not spinning. omg we're gonna die.

HANG IN THERE, MSBELLE!

I got to go to another department's Christmas party, and they were having a Yankee Swap/White Elephant thing, and I got to participate even though I hadn't brought anything! (Someone brought two things.) I ended up with a ridiculous reindeer cookie-jar-looking thing that turns out to have a pine-scented candle inside. I kind of like it.

Fuggly? or Not?

I think they'd look good being worn by Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker in 1985's Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

Liese -- nail a curtain or pretty sheet to inside of the laundry closet.

I got out of work at 1!! YAY.

I feel kinda sick. BOO.

Computer is dead!!! Only bberry remains. Electric co not here yet no word. FIGGY PUDDING!!!!!

"Piggy pudding?!?"

"No, Figgy pudding. It's made with figs."

"Oh. Sorry!"

"And bacon."

"What?"

OUR LONG ELECTRICITY FREE NIGHTMARE IS OVER!!

I swear, I need a fainting couch. I'm not cut out for these hardships.

Timelies all!

Well, we now have three functioning toilets again. (The one in the master bath was out of commission for a while, which was inconvenient)