Well, very little work accomplished yesterday, but we did get a christmas tree bought and erected, and snow shovels and ice melt--and just in time! Ace the Wonder Dog would like to register his disappointment that apparently this new house also suffers from an infestation of that nasty white stuff, which he was hoping would not trouble him here. (His first house was in Florida. He has not quite forgiven New England for its winters.)

Yes, our tree was spawned of a hell dimension.

Decorating the tree was kind of an emotional experience for me, because these ornaments have been in storage since 2002, and they all (of course) have memories attached.

Meanwhile, this morning, the Complaint Department brought me a glitterball, which was both a lovely gesture and made me realize that she has been increasingly anhedonic for a while now. Because the glitterball deliveries were never what you would call regular, but they were occasional, and I can't remember the last one.

So it appears the kitty diazepam is working as it should, and she's feeling less stressed and more playful.

She even let the kjitten get away with patting her on the head this morning.

Of course the downside of this is more jumping on my face in the middle of the night.

I feel like I am a bad kitty mom, and I should have noticed that she was more stressed out than I realized before she resorted to domestic terrorism.

Meanwhile, the GRD is working on his levitation:



If only he can figure out how to get all four paws up at once, he'll have this licked.

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"I don't know how people pissing on my face will help me sell Lou Ferrigno's house."
---Peter Claven (Paul Rudd), I Love You, Man

...and there you have my day. :)

It's wet and cold and my back is complaining about it. That and the shopping. We managed to finish several people in the gift giving list.

Decorating for Christmas hasn't happened as we wanted.

Laundry is mostly done.

Bathroom cleaned.

I have a wonderful wife who reminds me on most days how wonderful she is.

I've achieved zombie levels of tiredness again.

D&D didn't happen.

I've received LJ gifts from some wonderful friends today (all of which made me smile). Thanks guys.

So it was a day.

And I need to get my fine tush to bed as I'm falling asleep writing this.

Tell me about your day.

And sweet dreams to all of you.

Peace,
- O. (aka popfiend)

8:00 pm
Monkey: Oh dear. I seem to be suffering from a miserable allergic reaction to something. I think I will take some benedryl, go to bed early, and skeep it off.

9:00 pm
Complaint Department: Monkey?
Monkey: Shhh. Sleeping.
Complaint Department: Monkey?
Monkey: Shhh. Sleeping.
Complaint Department: Monkey? But  I need scritches.
Monkey: Huh? Scritches? Okay. Now can we sleep?
Complaint Department: *purrs*
Monkey: Shhh. Sleeping.

11:00 pm
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at random noises*
Monkey: Oh, god, go to sleep, dog.
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at people on the street*
Monkey: Oh, for the love of baby jesus, go to sleep.
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at dust particles*
Monkey: Don't make me get out of this bed.
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at air molecules*
Monkey: The house had better be on fire because it caught from the welding torch the serial killer was using to break in, is all I'm saying.
Monkey: *gets out of bed*
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *silence*

12:00 am
Monkey: *sleeps*
Complaint Department: *jumps over Monkey's head*
Monkey: *hides head under covers*
Complaint Department: *walks on Monkey's hair*
Monkey: *pretends to sleeps*
Complaint Department: *jumps over Monkey's head*
Complaint Department: *again*
Complaint Department: *and again*
Monkey: Cat, did you notice that you are on Valium?
Complaint Department: I love it! It makes me so perky!

2:00 am
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at random noises*
Monkey: Oh, god, go to sleep, dog.
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at people leaving party across the street*
Monkey: *reads script from earlier*
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *barks at dust particles*
Monkey: *skips ahead to the getting out of bed part*
Giant Ridiculous Dog: *silence*

4:00 am
Complaint Department: *barks at random noises*
Monkey: ...

6:00 am
Alarm clock: *Pachelbel's Canon!*
Monkey: No.
Complaint Department: *walks on Monkey's hair*

8:00 am
Monkey: *gets up*
Monkey: Cat? Where are you? You need your pill and your treat.
Fearless Kjitten:  Treeeeeeeeeeet?
Complaint Department: *evaporates*

9:00 pm
Monkey: Gosh, why am I so tired? I slept twelve hours last night!

...weather was uncooperative and it's colder than the thermometer if you get what I'm saying.

But we managed to knock several people off the "to be gifted" list.

So now it's leftovers for dinner, rest and D&D.

Oh, I have a bathroom tub to scrub down somewhere in the middle of all that.

But it shall all work itself out.

For now...food.

How's your day been?

So the eggnog is made and the tree is up and waiting to be trimmed.

Where's my snowpocalypse?

A Lovecraftian ditty from an IRC chatlog.

Last night Lisa and I had quality time, snarfed a pizza and watched the series finale of Monk, which I thought hit all the right points and pretty much ended the way I expected it too. It was sweet. I like sweet. The whole sap thing and all.

Went to be at 2:15am (Lisa and I were doing the Holiday cards and she was determined to finish them all last night [115+!!!). I originally got up at 7:32am to see a man about a horse and then could NOT GET BACK TO SLEEP!

This was bad.

Felt like I had cotton behind my eyeballs and I was mentally and physically sluggish. Like moving through molasses. My Friday began at 5:30am so this isn't shocking.

I managed to fold some laundry and start another load and I tried to read a little, but my brain no worky.

So I went back upstairs and I figured I'd grab a little cuddle time with Lisa and I did.

She was worried about me of course.

So there was snuggling.

Then sleeping.

So I grabbed another 2.5 hours that way and I feel about 65% human and 35% zombie which is distinctly better than the 110% zombie I felt before.

Speaking on zombies...have you listed the the audio drama of survival horror, HG World yet. You can listen and learn more at http://goodmorningsurvivors.com.

I should do infomercials. :D

Anyway, Lisa and I have errands to run today. We were going to decorate the outside of the house, but it's very wet today so we're going to continue our shopping (live and electronic), hit the post office and probably try and get some of the internal decorations up.

So how are you and what's on tap for today?

Peace,
- O. (aka popfiend)

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