I just bought tickets to see Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, as well as a local author I am unfamiliar with tomorrow night! Neil Gaiman is going to be reading from his new book that isn't coming out until June! I may just be a little bit excited.

Cool! You'll have to tell us all about it!

Teppy, I will. Victor and thessaly are going as well, and I wouldn't be very surprised if Victor ended up writing something about it. Time to figure out if my Theatre is Evil t-shirt is clean.

Tea: I found the t-shirt and it is now in the washing machine. That is one way to get me to do the ton of laundry that I've been ignoring. Tonight we're going out for dinner because we have a Living Social deal that is going to expire soon. I'm really liking how this day is turning out so far.

I am cracking up at my mom. She texted me because she saw me post on FB that it's Tim's birthday. She said "I just saw your post about Tim's birthday -- I forgot but will put a card in the mail today. Remind me next year!"

And I texted back and said "Put it on your calendar, slacker!"

Her reply -- hand to god -- was "What's the date?"

O_o

~ma to erika and Anne (and frankly, to all of you who needed ~ma and brackets in the past few days, while I skipped to update).

Shir,

good grief. hang in there. You have buffistas with you across land and sea.

Shir, how are you?

{Shir} While I've only had to run to shelters for tornadoes, I do know the frustration of having my government be lethally stupid. May saner heads prevail.

I hope your appeal is successful, Erika. I am personally weary of discussing my finances with all and sundry.

Remind me to clean more than once a year, okay? I've been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. There's an appraiser coming this afternoon as part of the hugely annoying and time-consuming process of not having my house repossessed for a relatively small 10-year second mortgage that came due at the worst possible time. I'm trying to get a settlement, but times are so strange that a person like me, with a fair amount of equity, can't get a loan renegotiated, but someone upside down by $100,000 can. I think I actually want my house to appraise for less than it's actual value, so maybe its being infested with creatures made of dog fur is a plus. I'm living in looking-glass land.

A bit better, thanks. It's been a hard day. In about 20 minutes the Cabinet will start its meeting to decide if they're accepting the terms of the cease fire. Meanwhile, millions in Israel and Gaza are waiting to hear wtf they'll decide. This sums it up pretty well: [link]

So basically, waiting for the world to bitchslap Israel and Gaza all the way to cease fire. It's not getting easier not prettier, and I try to remind myself, over and over again and especially on days such as this, that it'll be easier for these governments if the tension and the anxiety I feel will thrive into hate (not necessarily of "the enemy", but mostly to idiots who don't have the same opinions as me). Because hate is never the answer. Just like Israel-Gaza wars and operations.

Oh, Shir. D was showing me some pictures of the violence yesterday and I just wanted to cry. I don't get it. I don't understand. It's awful and stupid and sad and so many people are caught up in it on all sides.

Glad it went well, Anne.

lots of appeal~ma, erika!!!

Can't wait to see cutie Ryan pics and new puppy pics when I get home.

Today's going pretty well for a Monday, here's hoping I didn't just jinx anything.