I hand a bag full of things to Mickey.

Me: Here, look through this. I'm pretty sure there's a Santa Claus in there.

Mickey shuffles through the bag for a minute

Mickey: There's definitely no Santa Claus in here. You do have two pairs of false eyelashes in here, though.

Me: OOH! That's just like Santa Claus!

<<< End of what I can remember from ( Read more... )

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it … and then the warmth and ( Read more... )

Things I have considered this morning:

- Giving my cat acupuncture.
- Joining a yahoo group for cat owners about feline IBD
- making her an all raw food diet

Oh, the joys of being a crazy cat lady.

Poll Spelling

Also, I feel the need to complain about how other people spell this word. It bothers me.

The excitement of the election made me feel like celebrating and making a cake yesterday. Except a cake is wasted in this household where there's only two of us, and I have no coworkers, so instead I was the housewife who makes a cake for her husband to take to work with him. A funfetti cake (this is a celebration, right?) with chocolate pudding ( Read more... )

Dennis, Charlie, and Jillian have all early voted for Obama! I am HIGHLY skeptical that Obama could ever take Texas, but still, it's good to up the popular vote.

Don't forget to remind your friends and family to vote!

As behooves us as a newly-married couple, Mickey and I are changing our last names. Hereafter, we will now be known as Mr. And Mrs. McCrankerpants. (We considered Mr. And Mrs. McCrankeridonwannastupidworkdeadlinesihateyoupants, but decided that might get tricky when filling out scantron forms ( Read more... )

Am I the only one totally confused by the Thai protesters, The People's Alliance for Democracy ( Read more... )

Anna Marie Cox on the Rachel Maddow Show:

"I am holding out hope that she comes out for the debate, and, as she responded to a hard question from Katie Couric, she just remains silent the entire time. We could like the John Cage Memorial Debate. It could be a kind of street theater that the American People might learn from."

HA HA HA.

Poll DebateForgot ( Read more... )

Currently as I lie on the couch, her butt is on my chest/stomach, her torso on my arm and lap, and her head on my hand, bobbing up and down as I type.

I have kicked her off of my lap at least five times this morning, so that I can do work. And yet, here she sits. I would take a picture, but that's a little difficult at the moment.