vomit first

Here is Aubrey wearing my wedding dress.

Quotation of the day: "If you haven't cleaned up their vomit, you shouldn't walk down the aisle with them."-- Dr. Phil

Here is a video of Rebekah leading a cheer.  She is the super blondie in the back left.  She moves up to the right front.

rooibos

I love rooibos herbal tea from Wegmans. I prefer the non-blueberry, loose type, but this is the closest picture I could find of it. A liking-statement is not as effective sans illustration, no?

Quotation of the day: "People don't die from peeing." --Dr. House. And as for the picture below, is there anything better than grumpy curmudgeon holding fresh pink baby? Answer: no.

Here is one of the gerbils that my friend Jennifer bred, which she entered in a gerbil show. Her name is Violet. She took a blue ribbon in the pied class and won the People's Choice award for favorite gerbil in the show. I am proud of her. ("Which her?" you might ask. I would answer, "Why both of course.")

Eternal Hold

I write this as I am on Eternal Hold with Geek Squad.  Let's see if I can do this entire post before someone gets on to help me.  

Here are 5 things about the inauguration:

1. Aubrey went.  Here is a video she took as Pres. Obama was shakily taking the oath.
2. The benediction was funny at first, then later struck me as condescending to the white man.
3. The people at the Washington Memorial all had a clear view of the bow on Aretha Franklin's hat.
4. I texted Aubrey that I was amazed she was seeing all those past presidents at once.  She responded that her friend even saw President Van Buren.
5. I appreciated that Pres. Obama mentioned sticking to the founding fathers' principles on which they based this country.  I also like that he did some emphasizing on personal responsibility.    

Quotation of the day: "Finally, someone who will take my advice." --my friend Jennifer's 9-year-old son, upon finding out he was going to be a big brother.

Phrase of the day: constant vigilance

Picture of the day:  I love Bones

Substances of the day: absinthe and tequila

Geek Squad hung up on me after half an hour on hold.  I called back, spent another half hour on hold, then got disconnected again.  Now I am on hold with the third person. I need a shot of tequila. 

snot

• Quotation of the day: "What is the freezing point of snot?"  --Aubrey H.
  
• Here is a picture of my new dress.  It is a close-up.

serial killers

• Warning: the below might sound like cynicism, but then again it might not.
• I am obsessed with serial killers.  Jerry just bought me this book called Serial Killers by Brian Innes.  I can't wait to dive in.  The book was published slightly before my favorite serial killer, Dennis Rader, was caught.  He is also known as BTK (bind torture kill).  I think I have read everything there is to read about him.  I would love to have an interview with his ex-wife.  And then there's Silence of the Lambs--ah!  But truth is even stranger than that fiction. And fiction is pretty strange.
• Why am I obsessed with serial killers?  The same reason anyone is, I guess: I wonder how a person gets to that point?  What is his motivation, inside and out? Do they all have something in common?  Dennis Rader said the thing that they have in common is "Factor X." 
•  I also like the idea that there are plenty of potential serial killers out there who just haven't become/will never become kinetic serial killers.  I say "out there," but they are rather "in here": in our circle of people we meet, walk by, see in the grocery store.  Instead of fulfilling their ultimate fantasies, they in their cowardice just stick to abuse of humans and serial killing of animals.  
• How can we hold faith in the goodness of humanity when these people are among us?  The answer is that we must put it out of our minds using those oh-so-useful defense mechanisms.  Happy happy joy joy peace.  I could go on and on...
  

persimmon

no guru

Rebekah came to work with me New Year's Eve.  Here we are sharing ear buds and watching One Tree Hill.  Ya, you read me right: at work watching One Tree Hill.  Rebekah said, "This is like school except worse."

• Phrase of the day: confound it
• I saw Marley and Me.  For heaven's sake don't see it unless you enjoy experiencing several types of pain all at once.  In that case, by all means make haste.
• I saw The Love Guru.  I'm almost embarrassed to own it. [Can you tell I have been reading Pride and Prejudice again?]  It was so bad [The Love Guru, not Pride and Prejudice] that I turned it off 1/4 of the way through.  I am mad I even watched that much of it.  I am all for crude humor, but there is a line.  It was crossed by a mile.
• I saw What Happens in Vegas.  It was pleasant for a mindless diversion.
• Quotation of the day: "People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff.  I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk." --Stephen King