Still Kickin'

What happened? I was updating so regularly and then things just kind of fell apart. It's been a busy week, though, and I guess that's the explanation.

Last week on my birthday I received so many wonderful, thoughtful gifts (and some arrived this week too), but I have to say that this Mr. Potato Head massager is the weirdest gift I got. Maybe the weirdest gift I ever got. How does it work? Well, you push down on his little black hat and he starts, um, vibrating all over the place. And he's got little treads on the bottom of his feet for giving backrubs. On the box it says, "Let him walk all over you! Use anywhere tension strikes -- home, office, or gym."

I think maybe I should take it to work...

Oh, work. I came home early from work today, sick with a bad stomach ache and just worn out. For some reason, I woke up at 3:45 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I can deal with it if I wake up at 5:00, you know? Usually, anyway. But before 4:00? Oh man. I was almost falling asleep in my meetings this morning. So then when this stomach thing started up I knew I wasn't going to get anything else done over there. I do think it helped to come home and rest.

I just played a new CD mix that Sonal sent me, Sea of Neon, and it is astoundingly good. It was inspired by Rufus Wainwright's song "California." Very, very cool. I think this is my second mix by Sonal. The first one (Girls, Girls, Girls) is great, too. It's very cool how people's personalities come through in things like CD mixes. Creativity is a wonderful thing.

Speaking of creativity, there's a lot of action going on at Kiss the Rain and Painted Turtle just lately. Maria and Amanda are both working on their sites a lot, building them up and adding to them almost every day. Check 'em out.