'Suela, that is the pumpkin bread recipe I used a couple of days ago! DELICIOUS! I have one loaf left.

We had six kids spend the night last night. More are coming today for a Halloween party.

Called home last night to find out that the ick my father has seems to have spread to my mother and sister, so they're all down for the count. My father's down down, but my sister is still getting around, although she's currently doing to on a pair of crutches. Our helper is on leave, but they're thinking of asking her to come back, just because everyone's so fucked up. They have water and gas and telephone, but no power still.

In the spirit of "fuck you, day" I offer this [link] to androphiles.

Oh, ita, that's very pretty.

Hello, nurse! Who's he?

I am at my 5k but it is pouring rain. I am trying to decide if I should try to run and get soaked, or walk with an umbrella, or bail ( though that would kill my new years resolution).

He's a French model. That's the first I'd heard of him, yesterday, while I was doing a scan for Idris Elba pictures. He was the only distraction from goal (normally I bounce around and around), but a worthy distraction indeed. I will be seeing if I can find any other good excuses to post his picture everywhere.

This morning in an attempt to learn more about this knolling (video) stuff, I came across this tumblr [link] which could not have less to do with me, but it is very pretty.

Dag, Willy Monfret.

Your family sounds like a mess, ita! Sounds like they could use some help.

The voting lines wrapped around the block. I came home to do laundry and declutter. I'll try again later or tomorrow, hoping it's just the fervor of the first day of early voting. OK, onward.

I decided that it would be simplest if I voted by mail, and wondered if it was too late to get that process started. I found the form, printed it, filled it out, envelope sealed and addressed, and then for shit and giggles clicked on the link below the mailing address, and when it told me to enter my name and some other info it told me I'd registered to vote by mail in August and have had the papers a couple weeks.

Oh.

So I checked the October pile, and there was my mail in ballot.

No memory, guiz. I have no clue when that happened. But it's my full name on the mail in envelope, so...

I *never* do things ahead of the last, desperate minute.

Well, other than renew the tags on my car this year. Can I truly madly deeply get that gold star (maybe there should be gold star code in, and your name will look like this:

sarameg - Oct 27, 2012 9:14:23 am PDT # 27243 of 27243 Mark Block Star

And when a magically determined number of people have starred you, a gold star appears next to your name for five days.

Yeah, that would be cool.) that I managed to lose my renewal papers, and have nothing other than a vague memory of November, and actually called the DMV and got the exact deadline and instructions on how to renew without the papers (didn't know if I had enough info without it to do so online, but easy peasy--license plate and VIN) and then renewed my registration a tad early.

Your family sounds like a mess, ita!

I swear. I told sis that I might feel like too much crap to call this weekend, but to send my vibes to the 'rents anyway. We'll see how Sunday goes. Maybe I can call them then, or maybe I'll be asleep/unconscious/spoonless/comatose after the results of the deployments which is giving me period mini anxiety attacks.

I love the gold star idea.

Will we be able to star ourselves though?