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I've been remiss, I know. Bad scribe. No biscuit. All I can say is, depression sucks. And having said, "All I can say is..." I'll leave it at that.

My Siamese, Niccolo, died a year ago in December. He's the first cat I've ever really missed for a long time after he died. In about October I got to thinking about him, and I've thought about him frequently since. It hasn't made the "holidays" any easier. (So much for the "leave it at that" part. Oops. I'll try harder. )

Christmas itself wasn't bad. In fact, seeing Amy and Raymond was wonderful. ( Read more... )

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Thanks to a little help from Miranda, I lost about half of the entry while I was working on it this morning. I thought I had remembered everything, but realized I missed two important points.

The more important of the two is: Woo hoo! A & R gave me a laptop for Christmas! I love my Mac, but I swear I think if I had it to do again, I would have gone for the laptop. This way, I get both! If I were all young and girly, I'd be going "Squee!!" all over the place, but I guess you'll have to figure out what an age/dignity (ha!) appropriate response is. Have fun.

The other thing I was going to throw in is that I got hooked on Su Doku over the holiday. Mother's paper carries it, and I'd never seen it anywhere else. I thought it looked like fun but could never figure out how to do it. Have I mentioned that I'm not so good with the logic thing? I've always felt like I wanted to be better but couldn't figure it out myself. Amy got me started with the Su Doku and I am horrified to admit that I actually bought one of those (shudder) "Dummies" books. Hey, in addition to helpful tips, it also has a few hundred puzzles in it. Amy also told me about websudoku.com. Oh, my. So tonight, to spread the joy around, I showed the site to Livia. Heh. Evil laurel. She'll have her revenge, though-- she's only played one board with me, and I think she's a natural at it.