ze car, she is mine.

(pictures later. it is soooooo blue!)

the only way i know how to fix things is by talking about them. that's the only thing in my bag of tricks.

the doctor's appointment went well. whew. they want to see me again in two weeks, but that's doable.

i keep wanting to say that liam died. but that makes it sound like he just died. which isn't true. they just positively identified his remains, that's what's happened.

peace to you, liam, and to helen and brigid and rose and harry who are still here, as well.

doctor's appointment tomorrow. i am not so excited about it. we'll see how it goes.

blogger is back! hurray!

nathan got me a pinochle deck for christmas. actually, two of them. woo!

sigrid got me a chihuahua book. yay!

tomorrow, we go off to my parents house for presents there, and then on tuesday, off to nathan's parents house for presents there.

mmmm, food poisoning.

i'll spare you further details.

i am a sleepy girl at the moment, thanks to the universal principle that dogs think that whatever thing that you have must be the best thing on the planet.

(this does, for your reference, include choice of spots on the bed.)

ah, more meetings here at work this afternoon.

oh boy oh boy oh boy.

(i'm trying to sound excited. is it working?)

i just read the girl who loved tom gordon by stephen king over dinner.

sometimes king just totally gets it right.

this is one of those times.

i'd put off buying this book for a long while after it came out, and only recently bought it when it was on the six dollar rack at barnes and noble.

i don't like sports, and i'm particularly annoyed with baseball at the moment (thank you, minnesota twins), but.... wow.

if you've been discouraged and putting off buying king's books because some of the recent ones have been so much not up to his best work, go buy this one. it's not up to the standard of it or the stand, but my goodness does it suck way less than the tommyknockers or even delores claiborne.

"A powerful organization of European women recently laid down a quota: 40 percent of government posts in Afghanistan have to go to women. Refresh my memory: What's the legal quota for women in the U.S. Congress?"

[wince]

ouch.

(from Salon.com Life | Leaping to conclusions)

i'm spending a bunch of time for a while working in the test lab here. it's down on the first floor, in a building that really doesn't use the first floor at all, and way back in the corner. there are no windows, and the hallways down there are all poured concrete, painted in bright colors to help you find your way around.

but i'm finding it more comforting than i had expected. it smells like the building that my mother used to work in, that i worked in for several summers. it smells familiar and grownup and good.

our mp3's seem to be recorded at different volume levels. and sadly, morphine is very loud and beat the clock is very soft. this is not so good. beat the clock songs are really just better when you can hear them.

it's not often that i feel a need to quote my friend jennie.

but i do now.

read for content.

(okay, now i'm having spike flashbacks. "read... for... content... bitch." heh.)

pirate is a batfaced little dog. and bat eared as well. and cute. did i mention cute?

my goodness but was i ever intense when i was twentyone. my goodness gracious. oh, the intensity.

i've gotten over it, mostly. i'm not certain if this is good or bad, but i am over it.

what i would like is a little detector that would be able to tell me if the reason why i am having so much trouble with things right now is stress or that the balance on my meds is off. either is fixable, i just need to know which.

my stomach hurts. bleh.

but tonight, nathan is going to take me out for dinner someplace niceish. yay!

The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- Molly Ivins: Is Ashcroft safe and sane?

says molly:
"In this fight for our cherished freedoms, those cherished freedoms should definitely be the first thing to go. Sieg heil, y'all."

i really hate online quizzes. but not enough to not take them.



Take the What Cat Are You? test by webkin!

how to tell a betsy from an abby:

betsys have short hair. abbys have very very very long hair.

betsys wear one or two rings at most. abbys wear many many rings, enough so that you hope they don't have to go through metal detectors often.

betsys are blondish. abbys are brownhaired.

and last but not least, abbys are taller. (but not much.)

on friday, one of the team leads for my team came over and gave me a copy of the fake money that pflag is distributing to give to the salvation army. hurray!