Sean, I'm sorry about your cat, but glad there was some good news.

Ginger I hope they can rescue the dog.

I was going to go to knitting tonight even though it's extremely cold (-1, feels like -11) because cold wasn't going to stop me! But my car did. It wouldn't start, it's the battery and last time I had the car in they checked the battery and did a read out that said it probably wouldn't start in cold temperatures.

It is guys night and I am debating between going to see Les Mis by myself or just going downstairs and crafting. I've been feeling emotionally off the past couple of days and I wonder if a good sobbing will help me purge some of the emotions that have building up.

Mind, I've processed them and know where they are coming from and have talked about them with the proper party, but I still feel kind of built up.

Does any of that make sense?

Aims, processing is intellectual (and can be some emotional, but to me it's largely intellectual/mental), so you can still need a good emotional catharsis. No question.

Then the good sobfest it is. Plus, it's $5 night at the local theater, so I've got frugality on my side, as well.

Also? Mental illness (though I realize MI does NOT have the patent on emotionally purging) sucks a lot of the time. Even with the right meds. Sometimes, I hate my brain.

Aims, seeing Les Miz after Christmas was wonderfully cathartic to me, so it sounds like a good plan.

This is a gorgeous slideshow of London Underground posters.

Happy New Year, Bitches.

I'm getting ready to post Mal's video blog about the NYE fireworks here. It's amazingly free of negative opinion, since he announced today that he's done with living here.

Ooo, I'm seeing Les Miz on Friday. Must remember to bring a hankie.

Ginger, sounds like you made the best choice in a bad situation.

Bit of a quandry here - D got me a supernice portable speaker for me to take to work, and I'm worried it's too nice - stuff on site tends to get knocked around. Also, I'd have to take my iPhone out of its case to use the dock (though it does have an auxiliary jack in back). I just took it out of the package and it's damaged, the covering over a speaker is cracked. So, it needs to be returned anyway; should I take the opportunity to explain that this isn't exactly what I need or just say "thank you, sweetie, it's awesome?"

In his place, for a tech thing like this, I'd want him to tell me that it wasn't right. But I'm not him. IDK.

should I take the opportunity to explain that this isn't exactly what I need

Yes. It's honest and that is both good in a relationship and will get you a portable speaker that you can actually USE at work without worrying it will be damaged or stolen. And you can frame it as that - what he got you was really nice but you worry about it being damaged or stolen at the job site.

Granted, some people take it personally if a gift doesn't work perfectly but, in this case especially, it's not always about the gift or giftee.

Cat woke me up at 2am. Can't get back to sleep. Dammit.