Whew. After doing some sorting and stuff this morning, I went to a friend's Christmas party (except turns out I was the only person who came for the earlier part of the party--oh well, we got to chat with each other) and then I went to IKEA and bought the rug that I thought about buying yesterday but didn't. So now it is in my living room, and I rearranged the sofa so it looks better with the rug. I also bought an Expedit thing to put in my bedroom, but have not yet wrestled up the energy to get it up another flight of stairs (I already got it up from the garage to the living room). I was pretty proud of myself for freakin' getting it into the darn car! Now if only I can manage to clean some of my room tomorrow while the new roommate moves in, I'll be doing good.

Finally watching Scandal. Oh, Sally.

Hello from 2014! Well pretend 2014 anyway. Party was fun, lots of filmmakers there. So I ended up chatting with a carpenter. All the desserts sparkled...it was odd.

Oh, the thought I had from Scandal (aside from "wow, they went there") was - I wish Quinn would remember that Olivia recruited her, not Huck. She was kind of awesome removing the tracker, though, that's probably the best I've liked her.

Also - woo, meara, doing all that house stuff and also getting to the party! Go you!

I'm a bit confused by the whole Quinn thing. Like, is she going one way, or the other? Why do I care? I kinda don't, but I could've, and I feel like the back and forth sorta ruined it.

That said, I did love the whole Cyrus/Sally thing, and the what-his-face/Sally "call me FIRST" thing but want it to be the Cyrus/Mellie show all the time. Or just go back to more Scandal-of-the-Week, and less Olivia drama.

Hec, you told us what everybody else had, but forgot to mention what your soup of choice was?

Gar, I am sad to report that the chef got no soup that night. I think I had a spinach salad with tuna and hard boiled egg.

But I still have my turkey stock saved from Thanksgiving, and will be making a turkey soup tomorrow.

Matilda is having a sleepover, so Emmett and JZ and I immediately put in The Ref and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Also, I was instructed to do something fancy with the popcorn so did a mixture of parmesan and cayenne that was soooo good. (copied from our hosts before we saw The Hobbit)

Not that I should, since my to-do list is longer than ever, but the more I think about it the more I think making 30 minutes a day to read y'all's words is worth the priority. Better than io9 comments, anyway, which currently waste enough of my time.

I was going to raise an eyebrow at this but then I saw that the alternative was io9, and I can support us being more time-wasting-worthy. Do it!!

We are definitely more worthy than io9!

I guess I have to go out and shovel, but now I wish I had done it overnight, when it was cold and powdery. Now it is warm and slushy, apparently! Yuk.

Seven degree here in Shawano--we got an inch or two of snow last night. i'll be leaving for Chicago in a bit, where it's 15.