Belgians.

I like when people from Belgium visit my site.  That is all.

a snippet.

I may not be the most committed blogger in the blog-o-sphere, but there is one thing I tend to do without fail.  Paper snowflakes!

The official date of Paper Snowflake Day is December 27th (which is also conveniently my birthday) but the real holiday starts to get rolling in the first week of December.  Get some white paper and a pair of very sharp scissors, and go at it!  Enjoy!

Animals and stress.

My family once had a cat who was rather indifferent to everyone in the family ( gee, perfect cat behavior, eh?) until someone was sad, angry, depressed- any strong emotion, and Kit ( the Cat) would come and claim your lap, and sit there until you felt better.  I always wondered how she was able to sense that.  It was a never fail situation.  You are sick in bed with the flu?  She's curled up on the top of your head like a fur hat until the fever breaks.  You had a bad day at school?  She follows you around the house until you flop on the couch, and sits in your lap purring like a chain saw until you feel loved and needed, and at least a little better because she tricked you into feeling like you were cool enough for the aloof cat to hang out with while you watched Saved by the Bell.  I like to think that God puts certain animals on this earth to be the regulators, to be the family barometer.

Unfortunately, when everything started to come down around everyone's ears at the same time, Kit couldn't handle it.  She developed a nervous habit of picking out her fur.  Needles to say, we had a half bald cat for a while.

She needed a pet to come and fool her into thinking everything was going to be okay too.

Do animals have psychosis?  Do they need therapists and spa time?

Apparently they do.  I work in a pharmacy, where we have more than a few people who come in regularly to pick up antidepressants for their cats and dogs.

Currently Listening Billy Liar By The Decemberists see related

Godzilla or Gojira?

They are one in the same.  I found this out a while ago, and I was impressed.  What a popular guy, two names and all!

What a handsome devil.

I wish I had one of my own... he could just voip my problems away with his laser eyes... or eat the city.  I don't care.

(I didn't know he could do that.)

Wouldn't that be convenient?

Currently Watching Shaun of the Dead By Edgar Wright (Director), Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield see related

Lunch Break

I'm spending my lunch break at the library instead of in the arms of Ronald McDonald.  (The idea of that really happening is creepy beyond all points of creepiness).

He's waiting for me!  He's disappointed that I gave up on him!

"Come back, Maie!  I'm sorry I gave you thunder thighs!"

Sorry Ronnie.  French fries won't fix it this time.  We're over. 

The library is lovely... quiet, bookish... until there are disruptions.  A child was screaming. The guy next to me keeps popping his knuckles.  It's a whole world of sound that I would have never noticed in any other setting.  Hooray for quiet.

Hooray. Here's a peaceful scene for the weekend.