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• 00:48 Still snowing, lighter than earlier tonight, but still hanging in there. I think this is a good excuse to go to bed. Zzz. #
• 09:33 Amazingly enough, as of when I got up this morning it was no longer snowing. Unfortunately, the dryer is also now no longer drying. #
• 14:53 Dara just spotted one cold, solitary little rat scampering in the snow outside. The cats are very, VERY interested. #
• 16:54 More snow inbound tomorrow night, people. Possibly also on Christmas. We aren't done yet. *headdesk* #

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Why going out on the roads today was a bad idea: an object lesson

So today was my very last saline fill. This is of interest not only as a milestone for Operation Rebuild Anna's Boobies, but also because as those of you in the Seattle area know, the weather is sucking. So are the roads. And as solarbird is a better driver than I am, I made sad faces at her until she agreed to drive me to the appointment.

(I could have rescheduled, but that would have been difficult for a number of reasons, all of which are involved with the fact that I start at Big Fish next week, and the folks in my surgeon's office are going to be out later this week. So that would have necessitated schedule juggling and probable insurance juggling, since what's left of my insurance from the job I just left expires at the end of the month.)

Anyway, Dara reluctantly agreed to drive. We got there after one incident of getting stuck near the surgeon's office--Dara had missed her expected turn and I'd mis-remembered which way to go from a side street instead, and we got stuck turning around. Annoying, but we got out of it and were only about ten minutes late to the appointment. The saline fill got done and dealt with, and I don't have to go back for the final procedure until February. Even as late as April if necessary, depending on the needs of my new work schedule. So that's all good.

We stopped a couple of places on the way home and got lunch and various errands done. There was one brief annoyance in the parking lot at Lake Forest Park Town Centre when a woman unexpectedly BACKED INTO US because she didn't realize we were behind her. Fortunately she only dinged our front bumper, which was pretty dinged up anyway, and therefore it wasn't worth getting her insurance info. But still, annoying.

And Dara was wise, it turned out, to fear coming back up our hill. We made it literally almost all the way up, until we got to the little mini-street that leads right into our driveway. The Honda's stuck out there now, in sight of the house. Dara and two neighborhood ladies are trying to shovel a path to let it make it the rest of the way up into our garage. They made me come instead because I started to be wiped out from the most upper body exertion I've had in some time.

So, um, yeah. I don't think either of us are going to be doing much the rest of the night.

It's a shame that were this to really happen, it'd probably suck

Meanwhile, for giggles and grins, check this out. It's a fake fan trailer for a Thundercats movie--and it's surprisingly well done! I'd actually think about going to see this movie if it really existed.

"Thundercats Movie trailer (fan made)" (Watch on YouTube)

Great Big Sea helped me win a romance novel!

So this is really rather cool. The fine ladies at Smart Bitches Trashy Books have been running a series of Hanukkah giveaways on their site. Day 1 was this post, wherein the question posted was, if you know the world is going to end in 2012, what's the one thing you want to do?

It should surprise exactly none (0) of you that my answer was and I quote: "I want to see Great Big Sea perform on their home turf in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and belt out “Rant and Roar” at the top of my lungs in the middle of a crowd who can sing it like they mean it."

I amused at least one person in the comment chain, who remarked that she loved that I wanted to see GBS. I clarified to her that no, specifically, I want to see them in Newfoundland, because that would be one hell of a final end-of-the-world concert.

Because you know, of course, that they would be closing with their take of "End of the World". Only version of that song with two bouzoukis, baby! <3

Today I found a mail from Smart Bitch Sarah saying I was one of the three winners! W00t!

For the record, the ARC I've won is for Dawnkeepers by Jessica Andersen. It's book 2 of a paranormal romance series. I shall be blogging about it forthwith when the book shows up.