Would you like a food processor, nice blender, or fancy crockpot? Spendy makeup or skincare? I actually let my mom buy me makeup this year once i settled on a color palette from bare minerals and she was thrilled.

A new winter coat?

I got that last year.

I added a few cooking things, and also a 3/4 size guitar. (I have a fairly small full-size guitar, and I never play it because it's just too difficult to reach the chords. I figure that, if I just want to play for fun, a 3/4 size would be better.)

Fun at work today: overheard a coworker taking a call about a turkey on the loose. A huge, 4 foot turkey. On the loose. In urban Portland. Uh huh. Sure.

Then not 5 minutes later set up a priority assault...with mustard. Woman hysterical over some1 squirting mustard on her. Sadly, it was nowhere near the last giant turkey sighting.

Pressure cooker? You can go from dry beans to cooked bean casserole in under an hour.

Hil, even if you don't get a new TV this year, what about a surround sound system to go with your current TV? It's something that will transfer to a new one and you can get fairly decent ones without getting super spendy.

On which one?

Xmas. I've never seen SoA.

erin, wow. People are really amazing, aren't they? And I first read this -

Woman hysterical over some1 squirting mustard on her.

As a SQUIRREL squirting mustard on her. Much funnier that way.

D supported me through a very anxious weekend like a fucking champ. Hoping he sticks around for a while.

We went and had brunch this morning with one of my local friends/mentors, which was awesome. Love that guy.

Now to figure out what I'm doing for the rest of the afternoon/evening. Crafting, cooking, cleaning, work research... gotta prioritize.

If I ever get to set up a call on a squirrel squirting mustard on someone, i'll have to retire because it could never get better than that.

And hey, I just got candy for taking a turkey-related call on thanksgiving day! Whoo hoo!

Yay candy!

I've updated my timesheet and my budget software (money=none. skerprise, skerprise) while keeping half an eye on the women's college cup game. Go Heels!! It's halftime. Next up, chopping and cooking to get dinner in the slow cooker, then I think it's time to get crafty.

I am so exhausted. We were social all weekend- it was a big beer celebration day on Saturday (Zwanze Day) so there was a whole leadup to it on Friday night at the bar (plus the debut of a local beer that I'd interviewed the brewer about), a friend from across the lake stayed over Friday night and then she left, and other friends from out of town came over, biked back to the bar at 11am, drink till about 3:30, come home, go out to a crazy beer drinking fundraiser for Krewe de Vieux (an extremely raunchy parade) krewes, get all happy, go home, stay up drinking beer with friends from out of town, go to sleep, get up early because guests are awake, go get bottles of beer and breakfast, go to homebrew store, see off friends from out of town, go eat at a BBQ popup, come home and nap.

Lots of beer and LOTS of social interaction. So very tired.

Beer foamy.

(Fire pretty.)