re: your brains

If I were making a pro/con list for today, one pro would be that none of my co-workers are condescending zombies that want to eat my brains. I think I've been listening to Jonathan Coulton too much lately (the link goes to youtube which likes to play automatically so you've been warned). Gotta go to bed so I can drive to Charlottesville in the morning. But first, to fix my low blood sugar. Sigh.

On Friday while I'm in a variety of meetings, you can entertain yourselves on Jonathan Coulton's web store.

making some lists and checking them twice

I just spent over an hour brushing the dog to prepare her for her bath tomorrow. It was during the hockey game too so Sarah got "hair brushings" in addition to me this evening. Last year, I bought some pro/con tablets as a gift and was compelled to get some "spares" for myself. We've been using them a lot lately for car shopping, dog shopping and lots of other major decisions. I just wish there were a way to weigh the pros and cons so that it isn't such a one-to-one ration of lists. Some of our lists may only have one con in them, but it might be a *really* big con.

It's funny how sometimes just putting things down on paper can really help make things clear. So during NaBloPoMo this month I've started writing things down by hand. I guess it's easier to see the writing on the wall if you're the one writing it down.

In contrast, I used SecretSanta.com this afternoon to setup our company's gift exchange for the Christmas party next month. It's a very helpful web site in that you can setup exceptions to keep family members from getting each other or any other restrictions. And everyone gets to keep their secret since the recipient's name is only sent to the gift giver.

So at work I've been all about the electronic lists but as soon as I get home it's back to my old faithful pro/con tablet.

I need to migrate like a bird in the winter

The weather has finally started to change around here and I'm officially miserably cold. I will continue to shiver and moan and forget what it was like to feel my own toes until March. I don't remember being this cold as a kid, but I think my parents vowed that we would always be as warm as possible having spent so many years in houses without heat growing up themselves. We went for a short walk tonight with the dog to clear our heads and while I felt better once I got home emotionally, I was physically a wreck. My hands turned bright red and I lost all feeling in at least two finger tips. So I think a dangerously hot shower is in my future for this evening. For now I'm just sipping sugar free hot chocolate.

The voting polls closed at 7pm tonight and I made it there at 6:55pm. The woman at the desk couldn't find me under my Surname name so I told her it might still be under Punky since I was married in June. She wasn't sure which one was me as she scanned the computer and I mentioned that my address had stayed the same but just my name had changed. She looked up at me over her half glasses with the freshwater pearl chain and just smiled. Suddenly I felt like I was busted for shacking up within the precinct boundaries.

I told Rich this while we were on our walk and said that I could have just lived in the same house and he moved in once we were married but she jumped to conclusions. He said I took him in like a stray but I think it was more like he saved me from being an old spinster with 14 cats. Now if I can just find my afghan to wrap up in and fend off this night air, I'll be ready for half glasses with a freshwater pearl chain.