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I apologize if this is incoherent, I'm running on about 4 1/2 hours of sleep right now. Couldn't drop off until after midnight and Pye woke me at 5 a.m. trying to treat my bedroom screen as a scratching post. The boy has lost bedroom screen access for the remainder of the weekend. He is, of course, desolate.

Kage then threw up rather noisily, but in the kitchen so I was thankful for small favors. Though, of course, it did mean getting up extra early this morning to clean up her mess. While I was in the kitchen I swept up all the litter and cleaned out their litterboxes before going to get dressed. By the time I came out of the bathroom Pye had already tracked litter all across the floor again. I pondered whether to scream or cry and ended up just sighing and cleaning it all up.

On the plus side I created a new yummy breakfast treat using my tomato/pesto/quorn recipe and some egg replacer (extremely low calorie and almost no fat!), yum. I've been eating the combination on pasta, pitas, and last night on a bed of spinach. It is divine, and low enough in calories/points that I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it. Thanks to that and exercising a lot I'm down two pounds so far and it's been gradual enough to make me think it's not just water weight this time.

Speaking of exercise, Alyne nearly killed us in class last night doing Choukraine, drills and then the entire 15 minute Soiree Odalisque set twice. I could barely walk by the end of it, but I felt like we were making progress for the show. I think I can pretty much do Tammerhenna on my head at this point, I like no brainers, I really do. And Hinko has been modified once more in a way that will make Aelf very happy. Alyne's decided to put two double veil dancers in the center and have four surrounding them. The two in the middle will do the full 32 count airplanes while the rest of us do the airplane/travel combos. It's a win-win situation, and Alyne was bouncy 'cause her double veil dancers are willing to try almost any scheme she can come up with. :)

Just checked the standard features on the car I'm buying tonight, it has everything I wanted and needed already so I don't think I should need to add a thing. I am so very pleased I can't even tell you. I'm just counting the hours until I can make it my own.

And now I return to my Diet Dr. Pepper, already in progress.

It was probably #46.

This so kicked my ass this morning:
From the venturebrothers community-


A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE MONARCH

Each year around this time, in accordance with the "spirit of giving" attributed to the Christmas holiday, Dr. Girlfriend and I like to give a little something back to our "family" of loyal henchmen. We gather them in the throne room just before midnight, ladle them each a 9 oz. SiloTM brand plastic cup of mulled wine, and perform a classic Christmas song, skit or play for them. We even invite #46, who, before renouncing his faith and pledging allegiance to The Monarch, was partially Jewish.

Over the years we've done scenes from such timeless yuletide chestnuts as Scrooge, It's a Wonderful Life, March of the Wooden Soldiers (I was the boogeyman in plaid, Dr. Girlfriend played Little Bo Peep), and Citizen Kane.

This year, no such festivities will take place.

"Why?" you ask? Because Dr. Girlfriend left me. And I'm incarcerated. And Phantom Limb is an ass. My Christmas wish would be for the henchmen to get together this year without us, raise a cup in our honor, and admirably perform their own rendition of, perhaps, "White Christmas" or maybe a scene from The Santa Clause. However, as per my explicit instructions upon being sentenced to this cinder-blocked hell, the henchmen demolished our cocoon headquarters and fled underground. At least they should have. They better have – those were my explicit instructions.

What follows is an illegal and unethical recording of our Christmas 1999 performance, in which we reenacted David Bowie and "Bing" Crosby's stunning and melodic duet of "The Little Drummer Boy." Attempts have been made to locate and terminate the misguided henchman responsible for leaking this recording to the informational superhighway, but it's been a difficult task. Did I mention I'm in PRISON?!?

#46. It was probably #46.

- The Monarch

Fraking awesome

Via BoingBoing:

New Battlestar Galactica podcasts from SciFi Network
SciFi network just posted a new Battlestar Galactica podcast feature. Each week, the show's executive producer Ron Moore gives audio commentary on new episodes (warning: spoilers possible):

Copy-and-paste this link into your Podcast application. When you synch your MP3 device, you'll automatically receive any new commentary that's been posted. Start playing each episode's file when the words "The Cylons Were Created By Man" appear on your TV screen. Beeps will indicate when to pause for commercial breaks.

Very, very cool.