I have peanut butter kiss cookie failure. Well, the results are edible but the cookie is very flat which doesn't normall happen. These will end up being house cookies while the ginger cookies, the multichip Toll House cookies, and whiskey balls will be gifted around.

I'm sorry, Juliana. It certainly seems that there is a Buffista kitty party going on in the hereafter than seems mighty inviting to our pets.

(note, I had to add Buffista to my dictionary on this machine, and the suggestion was fisticuffs)

Mmmmm, reading of all this cookie making is lovely. In particular the SuziQ cookies since I remember all too well being gifted those treasures.

a Buffista kitty party going on in the hereafter than seems mighty inviting to our pets.

Hubby was a big softie when it comes to kitties, so he'll happily provide skritches.

Sue, juliana, so sorry for your feline losses.

Watching Alpha House in between doing stuff, now

Is there knotting?

The other night I had a dream in which I killed someone. I was a spy scouting for safe houses, and he was forcing his way into the apartment. I grabbed a gun and fired point blank at him, but it wasn't loaded (damned revolvers, what is their upside again?), and when that didn't work, just beat the shit out of him, including a lot of overkill, no pun intended (it was a broad downstroke into the join between neck and shoulder with which I finished him off).

Normally my anxiety dreams take the form of "Oh, no! I can't hit them hard enough to end the fight!" (they used to be "I can't drive but I need this car!" and then, once I'd learnt how to drive, "The brake line is cut and the car is out of control!"

Really odd. Do you guys have specific anxiety dream templates? What are they? I don't think I've ever dreamt the "I'm in school naked and can't find the upcoming Spanish test!" standard.

Unrelatedly, I had no idea this is the last episode of White Collar coming up next, nor that the Colbert Report is wrapping up shortly.

Is there knotting?

Not so far. Who knows where Garry Trudeau will go, though?

I've been keeping track of the upcoming last Colbert, but the last White Collar kinda snuck up on me. I knew this was the last season, but I thought there would be more in the spring, somehow.

My anxiety dreams tend to involve me being lost or otherwise unable to get somewhere I need to be. Most recently I dreamt I was moving into SF proper but all the people helping me move brought all my stuff to the wrong apartment (there was also something like a live-action version of Frogger and the ghost of my late husband (which was only anxiety-provoking in that I didn't want to tell the other people I was with that I was hanging out with a ghost while they weren't looking) but those are not "normal" for me)

Do you guys have specific anxiety dream templates? What are they? I don't think I've ever dreamt the "I'm in school naked and can't find the upcoming Spanish test!" standard.

My recurring specific anxiety dream is not being able to find my car, having parked it in a confusing car park or a crowded parking lot. I've never had the "I'm naked in public!" anxiety dream. I have had the "It's finals and I didn't study all semester! dream a couple times, oddly long after I graduated school.

I have a lot of the "I forgot I signed up for this class and haven't been going all semester" dreams.

I have those but they are fleeting (or I don't remember much of them), but then I do wake up feeling all out of sorts.

In my recurring anxiety dream, I'm going round and round in a parking garage, but I never get to the exit. Dreams that were otherwise pleasant often end up in that damn parking garage.

My car radio/CD player was an artifact of the last century, but I didn't think about it much until the CD player died. I couldn't face driving to Nashville without audio distraction, so I replaced it today. The radio told me what song was playing. I can use my phone with it. It has a USB port. I'm living in the future. Of course, I'm going to have to sit in my car with the manual for a couple of hours just to learn how to set the presets.

Of course, I'm going to have to sit in my car with the manual for a couple of hours just to learn how to set the presets.

Get to the station you want. Then push the button you want it to be preset to and hold the button down until you hear a little noise. At least that's how my car does it.