Good job, Em (and Joe and Aims!)

Consuela, my spare room is always available. And I could teach you the ways of ignoring all phones. But you might wake up to all three cats on you...

Neighborly wine night. Rest are off to watch the Jennifers, but I'm all mellow and cramming into Golden West, even for a relatively early night by Joe's standards, is Too Much for me on a weeknight. Told tales and laughed a lot and caught up. We're determined to get more regular about this.

My team took off this afternoon for a fun event. We took a cooking class and made Thai meatballs and samosas and spring rolls and things. We cooked and drank beer and ate stuff as it was ready. I totally would do that again.

That does sound like a good afternoon, shrift! YAY

I am sorry others did not have good days, and hope it gets better soon.

An actor and AD are parked in front of the snack table running lines. On the plus side, I'm not eating the snacks. On the down side, I can't get to the snacks!

That does sound like a good afternoon, shrift!

It was good! Casual and relaxed. The guy in charge of the class demonstrated some knife skills at the beginning that were totally useful. Then we broke into small groups and prepared different recipes. I was on the Thai meatball team. Our meatballs were awesome.

I might be in trouble now that I know how to make samosas, though.

K-Bug and I spent the evening running errands and getting dinner. It was nice to spend some time with her and have it not be stressed or with her bf glued to her side.

While we were at dinner there was an Air Force guy eating by himself. I paid his bill, asking for it to be anonymous, but they told him it was me. He seemed kind of confused as to why I would do that and I just told him "Thanks for your service".

how to make samosas.

I know that's not really "shop at TJs", but that's what works for me.

I think you should share the meatball recipe though!

Mmmm, homemade samosas.

I went to see Wreck-It Ralph and it was pretty much exactly what I needed. I knew Jane Lynch was in it (and was awesome) but there was also bonus Alan Tudyk! It was very cute and creative.

Now I am home with some Glenlivet and watching The Pundit: Colbert and Back Again.

The Hawkeye Initiative totally owns the image search results. Renner's pushed to 6 or 7. Good lord.

Aimee, that's awesome of Emeline. What a great kid!

'suela, I'm sorry for the shit. Wish things could be better for you.

Sparky, I hope your job is secure, but I'm very sorry about the 50% cuts. That just blows.

2012 seems to be a pretty suckass year towards the end.

K and I had a yelling match of a fight last night. Every day since September it's been an effort to just exist. Like I can get out of bed through sheer will only and everything is downhill from that point on. I just can't, again, have a fight about how I'm a shitty person.

To put the cherry on top, I have my boss's boss visitng my class today. yay.