He alerted me with a soft mew mew, and yhen hopped into my lap after horking. He’s a sweetheart even when icky sicky.

growly mood.

physical pain, emotionally upset, and exhausted. doing my best to keep a kind demeanor and minimize anxiety.

Playful kiss and switch girl. Korean drama and a little thomas was alone while we relax on the couch.

I made chili in the crock pot, turned out pretty good. Lentils, garbanzo beans, red and pink kidneys, black beans, and tvp meat with tomato sauce, salsa verde and assorted yum yum stuff from the spice cabinet.

Snow yesterday made everything look a bit cleaner this morning.

Allison and I went to the doc to get her cough evaluated, and ultimately pick up some throat coat and other rx to take care of issues. I got my monthly allergy shots at the same time.

Hopefully, those will do the trick. I hate see her not feeling well, and I selfishly want her to be at full vim and vigor for my birthday weekend. I don’t know what we’re doing, if anything. It depends on how we are feeling. Philly is out because it’s Chinese New year and a tattoo convention there this year. Punxsutawney required a lot of advance planning not available this go ’round.

[Edit, at the movies near Allison’s job. I decided I wanted to be nearby in case she could use me as aide in any way.] Preview Colin Firth. The railway man. Allison will want to see it.

Watched Spike Jonez’s Her. Not bad… touched on a lot of things that I tend to agree would happen in that situation, or any relationship at all.

Went to Court of Shanghai with in-laws. The General Tso tofu was good, but the Rangoon puffs were amazing. I have enough left over for tomorrow’s lunch.

Random closing thoughts. Spotted three eastern blackbirds flying together, about a dozen and a half turkey vultures, about a third that many ravens, a female merlin, four seagulls and a small assortment of pigeons.

Current Music is: Turret Wife Serenade – Ellen mclain

Night vision army man. This might be the first army guy I’ve ever seen without a helmet. Something about that doesn’t sit right with me.

Rear view

What is with the Heisenberg stuff now? Saw a bumper sticker with this logo this am toon Does someome want to be like a guy who pretty much shuts himself down?

California Tortilla bought me a birthday lunch. I paid a quarter and got change back.

Current Music: it’s not my birthday – they might be giants

From my lap.

This morning there was no hot water in master bathroom. The pipe froze somewhere between the kitchen and bathroom. Larry worked out the solution of drilling a hole in the floor and running a tube down and blowing the hair dryer where the freeze was thought to be. Thankfully, the pipe didn’t burst and we have hot water flowing again.

Dinner at Laughing Buddha with in-laws was tasty and lovely as always.

Lizzie Borden on lifetime kinda sucked. Flowers in the Attic was surprisingly on the mark.

First of all, the bird known as the potoo is awesome. Possibly the derpyest bird in the world.

Next, Bro has high bilirubin – his liver is involved. Having hep C and past drug use doesn’t help. I hope he is ok, and mends up.

Finally, pictures of snow and ice.

Shot of the solar powered stake light in my in-laws garden. It usually sticks out of the ground about 6 inches or so.

My footprint and the hulk truck tire print melted from snow into ice.

A replay of a love note from 7 years ago