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* I haven't even gotten out of my chair yet, and already Cosette is trying to steal my seat...the little shit.

* Did I mention that I really enjoy having artists on my friends list? Sometimes, they post links to more artists. A few days ago, kiwikat posted a link to Ashely Witter's art. Go look. I think her work is kind of neat.

* Great. I'm an idiot. There were two people I was supposed to buy birthday presents for, not one. Well, I will see the other person in a week or two, so it's no big deal. I can give them their present then. I still feel like a moron though.

* Posting these two links more for myself so that I can go back to them and read them. I really need to get back into writing that book I started in November. Or at least spend more time writing in general. But no, I keep saying I should do it and then put it off...

* There were eleven of us playing Apples to Apples today. judgys got the red cards bongos and bon-bons for the word, profound. I thought that was amusing for whatever reason.

* So...we're supposed to get about eight inches of snow Sunday night into Monday. What happened to the spring like weather??

* Bwahahahahaha! (Swiped from pisica)

* Awww....poor kitty!

* Finally! I just managed to accomplish one of the Special Missions on Ghost Trappers, which is a Facebook game for those of you who are curious. It's taken me for-freaking-ever to finish one of those!

* Tigers becoming extinct in the wild. So sad. (Link swiped from rm)

* I want one! *snerk*

* Dropped off my "emergency crutches" at my in-laws' house. My father-in-law slipped on black ice at work and twisted his knee. Now, I hope I won't need them in mean time. (And yes, I have emergency crutches because I am a klutz).

* Picked up two books I've been meaning to read from the library today: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger and The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly.

* Remember how I used to say that Cosette was a seat thief? In other words, whenever I got up to get something, I'd come back to see that she was sitting in the place I'd currently vacated? Well, now when I walk back into the room and say, "You stole my seat," she gets up and gives it back to me. Such a strange cat....

Yesterday evening, LJ went down. What did I do? Well, I experimented with one of the recipes in my great-grandmother's book. I made Peach Kuchen. I think it came out okay. *keeps fingers crossed* I plan to take it the New Year's Eve Party tomorrow. I also puttered around on Dragon Cave and *finally* managed to snag myself a silver egg. It only took me forever. Finally, I read a couple hundred pages of Stephen King's Duma Key. I'm enjoying it. I'm only 60 pages from the end so it's getting really interesting.

Let's see. What did we do this weekend?

Friday evening, we went out to dinner with doomsey's family.

On Saturday, we went to the barbecue for doomsey's work. His boss has an in-ground pool so, towards the end of our stay there, we played pool volleyball. During one of the games we played, I was directly in front of the person serving getting ready to volley. Her serve ended up bouncing off my head and over the net. Everyone practically died laughing. It was hysterical. Unfortunately, it didn't count as a point. I think it should have. :)

After the barbecue, doomsey and I went to my parents' house to fix their computer. They picked up a computer virus that turned their machine into a spambot. They didn't notice until someone at AT&T cut off their modem. doomsey made sure that their computer was free of viruses and that the modem was back up and working.

Sunday morning, we went met up with some friends who came in from out of town and had breakfast at Egg Harbor Cafe. In the afternoon, doomsey, his family, and I headed over to the Kane County Cougar's game. The game itself was boring because I loathe watching sports, but I enjoyed some of the antics from the crowd and on the field in between innings. I spent most of the game poking fun at the event on Twitter or knitting. I got a lot of work done on my baby blanket. Oh...I also had an opportunity to compete on a Karoake contest, but ended up blowing it because of indecisiveness. (I didn't think any of the songs suited my voice well. My voice has changed since the PE, and I have a hard time singing rock songs. I'm much better at musicals). By the time I had made up my mind, the slot had been filled. And I definitely would have beat the guy who signed up before I would have. His singing was atrocious, probably because he had a bit too much to drink.

For dinner, we went to a new tapas restaurant that opened up in Wheaton about three weeks ago. It's called Cafe Galicia. The service was good and the food was excellent. I'm glad we stopped there because it turns out that judygs had never had tapas before.

Over the weekend, doomsey and I went to three parties. On Saturday, we went to my sister's birthday party. We gave her and Andrew their Christmas present, a digital camera, a few weeks early. My sister loved it. She still has a film camera and she says that it's a pain in the ass to buy film and have it developed. I do have a birthday present for her, a scarf that I knitted, but it wasn't finished. I did manage to finish it yesterday though. All I have to do is cast off. I still don't know whether I'm going to put tassels on it or not. I think I'm going to take a picture of it and ask my friends list again.

After my sister's birthday party, we went to the pirate party at voidness' place. I dressed up in Ren Faire garb (my family was very amused when I changed into it to go to the party) and brought the little dagger that I had from my Halloween costume. I had a bit too much grog (man that was strong!) but otherwise I had a lot of fun.

Yesterday, doomsey and I went to his parents' house to celebrate Hannukah a few days early since doomsey had to go to Germany during Hannukah. As always, the food was delicious and I got a really cool present from judygs. She replaced the lladro that doomsey had dropped and chipped two years ago when he replaced a shelf. Thanks! That was so awesome! Around six o'clock, doomsey's boss picked him up to take him to the airport. After doomsey left, a bunch of us played Apples to Apples. After the game, I went home because I was exhausted from not getting a lot of sleep the night before.