Yes, here's a pic of Carl at his finest. LOL!
I'm watching Ghost Hunters (sorta) while playing on Facebook - mostly Vampire Wars and a little Fashion Wars. VW is addictive and I'll have to slack off next week when I return to work. FW is fairly boring, but I do it in between energy and rage refills on VW. I refuse to try Farmville, which EVERYone in my family seems to be playing...and I especially refuse to try Zynga poker/Texas Hold 'Em, or whatever it is my kids and their friends play.
I baked 2 pumpkin pies for NYE tomorrow. Fred fried catfish and salmon for supper, along with fries, and I fixed a salad w/lettuce, tomato, avacado, carrot, and broccoli. It was all delish. I'd never tried fried salmon before, but it was good. Cooked in olive oil, not too greasy. I'll be glad when holiday season is finÃs after this weekend, mainly because there will be much fewer sweet temptations beckoning wherever we go. We still have some pecan pie left over from Xmas. But we polished of the Italian creme cake yesterday. Damn.
I thought it actually might snow yesterday, but it never did. Had a little (very little) sleet mixed with some rain. Much more rain last night, apparently, from the looks of the yard. But it's drier now. Enough weather talk. I'm talking to myself, so what do I care? Ha.
Didn't feel much Christmas spirit this past week, but I tell myself it's OK, Christ wasn't born on Dec. 25th anyway. I miss Pope John Paul II's midnight masses on Xmas Eve. I watched those every year. They were/he was inspirational. And he knew to surround himself with other equally inspirational clerics and others. Benedict just doesn't even come close. Not that I'm Catholic. I took a 'what religion are you' quiz on BeliefNet (what DON'T they have a quiz for?!), and it told me, no surprise, that I'm 100% mainstream liberal Protextant Christian. Well, duh... But Gloria would be pleased (and maybe not surprised at all) that I also had 89% UU tendencies.
Gloria sent an email out to her cohorts yesterday inviting everyone to Crazy Heart (who/what the heck is that?) Sat. night. Said she wants to meet before for dinner somewhere good. I have to first look up the venue and also the featured ?performer(s)?, but I doubt I'll go. Been kinda (well, more than kinda) lazy all week. Not having to go in to the office will do that to ya'. At least it does for me.
Yesterday Fred was all like- we need to go here, we need to do this. Ugh. I told him I was on vacation and wanted to relax. I asked him what he thought vacation was for, and he said it was for getting other things done that you couldn't do when you have to work all week. Typical answer for a workaholic. Opposites...
