Ken's parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary this weekend. Because they are the wealthy ones, they are taking the family out to dinner here ( Read more... )

See, there's a party tonight. A very important party, as irish_caffeine is home from Italy for a few weeks and I must see his face. But I have to work Saturday at 4am. 4AM. I mean, honestly, can you imagine ( Read more... )

Home from New Orleans, had a wonderful time but it was way too short. There will be pics and stories later, but for now, here's a high-calorie taste:

Coffee and biegnet at Cafe du Monde

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So. I survived my drawing-room comedy unscathed, well-fed and thoroughly charmed. The only really dumb thing I did was spill some wine. Luckily it was white and on the kitchen floor, and it was spilled in pursuit of chocolate ( Read more... )

The me-being-a-jerk part had to do with a friend who I had talked about seeing on Saturday and then--well, flaked on. Saw the email earlier in the week, said, "Oh yeah, let me get back to him after I (blah blah blah shiny thing)" and then it dribbled right out of my head. I suck ( Read more... )

For the first time since 2005, I have a holiday tree! YAY! I picked it up last night, ably assisted by gr8ful_kenAbly assisted? Who the hell am I kidding? We picked it up in his truck, he carried it upstairs, he solved the stand-not-having-all-the-screw-thingies dilemma and he set the tree up. I stood around looking cute. I also put the Elvis Christmas ( Read more... )

If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I'd been arrested for?

Answer me, then if you want, post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of.

There is a cat hair on my keyboard right now. I am such a crazy cat lady that I brought Henry or Lucinda to work with me and re-shed here. WTF ( Read more... )

Yesterday started with shopping and ended in a cemetery. All in all, not a bad way to start the new year.

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I have a socially-busy week ahead! Baseball + dinner tonight, poetry tomorrow, fancy-makeup shopping Wednesday (a last-minute addition to the calendar!), visiting/museum-going/fancy-dinner-having Thursday/Friday, and Bird Benefit on Saturday.

The bird benefit is the height of the social calendar for my date anonymously4 and I; this is the third year we're ( Read more... )