As an aside, I have to find a new doctor, and I'm dragging my feet. My experience with Kaiser doctors was... not great. I often felt like I was being humored instead of listened to, instead of being trusted as being the expert on my body and mind. I guess finding the new doc is my onerous task of the day.

God, I don't even want to think about Christmas dinner. I'm a little caught off-guard at how super depressed I am about the holidays. I've been all "Rah! Rah! Sure it'll be weird not spending the holidays with family, but it's what we have to do to keep everyone safe!!!" And I mean that, 100%. But under my enthusiastic support of science-based advice is this huge pit of being depressed as fuck about it, and I was trying to ignore the depressed part.

So what I want to do is ignore the whole goddamn holidays, but Tim wants to put up the tree and whatnot, so we're going to do that. But maybe I can talk him into ordering Chinese for Christmas dinner and watching Wonder Woman on HBO Max.

I've MADE latkes, and I'm very, very not Jewish.

What's the difference in dreidels?

Ooh, I forgot about Wonder Woman

As an aside, I have to find a new doctor, and I'm dragging my feet.

I'm doing the same thing with three doctor-types. None of them critical, because my GP is good, but... still. Well, one of them is a therapist, so that's not a role she's filling. I've been dragging me feet on that one for a while. Hope you get your onerous task done today. (Also, I think I have spelled onerous wrong for most of my life. Huh.)

I ordered three ornaments on sale from Macy's the other day, and the box came today but with a Christmas plate in it. The packing slip has a handwritten "3 orn" next to the correct item listing, but there's just a plate. And, I have to say, a really not attractive plate. I was a little insulted (not really). DP says he is pretty sure the person who packed up my order did not intend to insult my taste. I suppose not.

What's the difference in dreidels?

From Wikipedia:

Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ‎ (nun), ג‎ (gimel), ה‎ (hei), ש‎ (shin). [...]. However, they represent the Hebrew phrase nes gadol hayah sham ("a great miracle happened there"), referring to the miracle of the cruse of oil. For this reason, most dreidels in Israel replace the letter Shin with a letter פ‎ (pe), to represent the phrase nes gadol hayah poh ("a great miracle happened here");

I think I didn't know there was a difference until about 10 years ago (or, better put: probably never remembered that class in elementary school).

I also have somewhere in my house a dreidel that has on each side a symbol for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and the logo of the org that made it. In case you had a free evening and had a difficulty to decide which random episode of which show to watch.

Thanks for stepping in Shir!

Hec, Scoma's is still open and does a good cioppino to go, if you decide you need it.

Noted!

My cheese omelette was great, btw. Absolutely oozing with melted cheddar with a cheese-pull first bite and everything.

Oh man, my cousin just ran into Chris Evans at the bagel place. "Wouldn't have thought he ate carbs," she says!