Yeah, my mom had stories about not being able to find her way around the base because she was posted there in the middle of winter and when the snow finally melted she couldn't recognize the buildings or the base.

Yeah, my mom had stories about not being able to find her way around the base because she was posted there in the middle of winter and when the snow finally melted she couldn't recognize the buildings or the base.

The snow drifts were like 9-10 feet high, so you were always driving through tunnels of snow up higher than your car.

Zen, much ~ma to you sister's partner. Brenda, it's nothing~ma to your father.

Cat still wouldn't eat. I'll try again in a few, and afternoon we will take her to the vet to get antibiotics and painkillers in a shot (it made her foam when I tried to give it to her via syrup). If she doesn't get better soon, it's either starting cat hospice here or risking an operation that she might not survive.

Oh Shir I am so sorry.

I’m up at this awful hour because Miley got her toes jammed in a gap in the thing we use as a step for them to get on and off my bed. She was getting down for water and her force really jammed them in there.instant howling, well more like a duck/goose barking actually.

All is ok now. I’ll have to check them in the morning to see if they are swollen. She did already walk on them and is back asleep. That where I need to be.

I’m sorry Shir.

In the box my sister sent this year there is a gift bag labeled “stocking”. It’s taped together at the top and makes interesting noises when gently shaken. I’m being incredibly restrained and haven’t peaked at anything that came in the mail, except for the bag of fancy coffee my niece included alongside her gift. It was unwrapped! And I didn’t want it to go stale. Yup, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Just got a work call (our office is closed/everyone is on vacation, but there is still year-end work happening), which I'm glad I answered because I definitely could not help! So I could just say that and be done with it.

{{Shir}}

I hope you are asleep, msbelle. Or were recently, at least.

Very sensible, Calli

Good one, Jesse

I am super reluctant to get out of bed and start working. Final day this week, I should just get it over with.

I do not like this trend of my boss sending something out to the team at 9 pm "for our meeting tomorrow" - no one is seeing that until a couple hours before the meeting and we'll have other things that need doing. Bah.

ION, for the last few days I keep returning to the idea that if the Whos of the Grinch story are the same as the Whos Horton hears, they are tiny and so the Grinch and Max and the roast beast must also be tiny and for some reason this is blowing mind. Like, the scale I have been imagining is just all wrong.

I also kind of wish that no one at my company had learned the phrase "directionally correct"

They are all tiny! That is funny to think about.