Chicago

Most of these are from LB's camera, but here they are nonetheless. There's two of us at the jellybean. We actually probably took 10 photos there trying to get us lined up in the shot.

I love my new house. Happy happy!

New (to me) happy song:

"Sweeter Than This"

Katie Herzig

YAY!

The book I loved "Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously" is now a movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. I can't wait to see it. The book was hilarious and how can you go wrong with Meryl Streep (who makes a hilarious Julia Child) and Amy Adams?

What made me happy today?

Downloading FedEx's new desktop software and seeing that the shortcut icon is a little cartoon FedEx truck. Made me laugh. It's by far my favorite desktop icon. 

happy sigh...

Watched the end of Glee. Seriously, Journey has never sounded so good. And I like Journey. 

I just watched the end of Grey's like 5 times in a row. If T.R. Knight can't find another acting job, he should join the Army. He can wear a uniform is all I'm saying. Wowzers.

Oh so fun

Will Hoge singing "Sister Christian" at the Guilty Pleasures. So cool.

Kindle Bliss

I'm extremely tired for no apparent reason. I'm wondering if I can justify going to bed like, um, now? Or maybe I'll just hop in bed and do some reading (are you getting the segue here?) on my new Kindle.

I haven't blogged yet about the awesome-ness that is the Kindle. I would have talked about it sooner but was too busy reading books, I guess. It is an amazing creation, and I think the whole world should get one. I would talk more about it, but I'd rather go read some more. Let me tell you - being able to buy a book and have it immediately whenever you want it is heaven!

Side note: my dog is doing her nightly run - back and forth about 20 feet about 80 times. It's so weird. Oh wow, she just ramped it up; she is out of control.

Hooray!

Dead Like Me: Life After Death will be in my mailbox tomorrow. Finally, an ending!

I think this video - and the song that goes with it - is just lovely. Hope you enjoy it.

I just found this online, and it's hilarious. If it wasn't a cute little kitty, it would totally be the stuff of horror movies!

oh my darlin', oh my darlin'

The annual Feast of the Clementines has begun. Let us give thanks for Vitamin C and easy to peel citrus. 

I'm a little distressed, though, because I found this post from last year and the clementines were on sale for $3.99.  Stupid recession.

10 minutes later - I guess I should explain that the distress came from the fact that the clementines were on sale for $5 this year.

Not to promote sloth or anything, but...

You should be watching Leverage on TNT. If you start next week, you'll have missed only 2 episodes. Do it! Take a night off. Watch some TV.

Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

This video may be the (unintentionally) funniest thing I have ever seen. The song falls in that category too actually. It's brilliantly ridiculous. I love it!

I'm encountering a harmonic convergence of suck right now. I've felt kind of emotionally ick the last few days - a combination of the suck and holiday induced blueness. But last night I got a treat that made all the suck and blueness recede for a little while. When I took Elsa out for her last sniff and pee, it was so cold and still and quiet outside - very peaceful, especially when you always have little voices yelling in your head (but not in the crazy way...come on, you know what I mean). But the best, most beautiful thing, the thing that kind of calmed the storm and allowed me to take a deep breath was the ground. It was late and already freezing and there was frost on the ground, and it sparkled like someone had shaken glitter all over the yard. Everywhere the moonlight or streetlights hit were sparkles that crunched pleasantly where you stepped. It was so unexpected and so pretty that I didn't mind Elsa wanting to sniff everything in the back yard; I just wanted to keep smelling the cold air and watching the grass twinkle.   

Grey Matter

Ok, so I've pretty much stopped watching Grey's Anatomy for anything except the music, which tends to be the only redeeming thing about the show these days.  Which is sad considering how perfect it was when it first began, but I guess as they say (Frost, right?) "nothing gold can stay."

So back to the music.  A couple of weeks ago there was a song in the background called "Trouble Is a Friend."  It sounded very promising so I went to iTunes to check it out.  The girl's name is Lenka and she's from Australia and her album is great.  I pretty much haven't stopped listening to it since I bought it.  It's just fun, catchy, light-hearted pop that sounds like a grown-up wrote it, which is sometimes hard to find these days.  Here she is:

 Buy her CD.  You won't be sorry.  

I think I have a British sense of humor

Headline in a London newspaper:  We're all socialists now, comrades.

Funniest thing I heard all day.  

I'll drink to that!