Degrees I can really get behind.

It has been so cold lately. So very cold, nevermind the wind. And remember that I work in a drive-through most weekdays? Yeah. Luckily I can get nice and warm again as soon as I get home. If something ever happens to our heat, though... well, I wanted to be buried in my favorite blankets. ;-)

But the forecast for the weekend and Monday seems to be looking up. It's supposed to be 30° tomorrow. Serious biz, I might just dance a jig! And 38° for Saturday, 43° for Sunday. On Monday - glorious, golden Monday - it is supposed to be 50°.

I'll be so happy I think I just might cry.

And the end of the music.

Well, it's been a few days now, and there are still a few stragglers that no one was able to correctly guess. They are the following:

12. We said our promises by candlelight. You held my hands, I was dressed in white - we were young. "How Can We See That Far?" - Amy Grant

13. Gotta find something to ease my mind, gotta get it off of you. You're tearing up my heartstrings one more time with what you're putting me through. "Gonna Get A Life" - Mark Chesnutt

20. Play us a song we can slow-dance on, we wanna hold each other. "Touch Me When We're Dancing" - Alabama

24. I saw your mama, and she said don't call you. Talked to your best friend, and she said no need to. "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" - Ricochet

25. I used to try to be a fix-it man. She had a problem, I had a plan. "All I Do Is Love Her" - James Bonamy

38. The new day dawns, and I am practicing my purpose once again. It is fresh and it is fruitful if I win, but if I lose -- oooooh, I don't know. "All Will Be Well" - The Gabe Dixon Band

44. Uh, oh. There you go again, talkin' cinematic. Yeah, you - you're charming, got everybody starstruck. "If We Were a Movie" - Hannah Montana

Thanks for playing along! :-)

Cute cat story.

I saw this article yesterday, and I thought it was such a cute story (but only because of the happy ending!). You can read it through the link, but I'm also posting it here for myself:

Stowaway Cat Makes It Back Home

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (Jan. 23) - Some kitty math: How many lives did little tabby Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner's suitcase, went through an airport X-ray machine, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far from home?


Gracie Mae, a 10-month-old tabby, stowed away in her owner's suitcase for a plane trip from Florida to Texas. Once there, a stranger mistakenly picked up the suitcase and brought it home to find the cat inside.

"She's got to be at four or five now," Seth Levy said after his 10-month-old pet was returned Sunday night by a kind stranger who went home to Fort Worth, Texas, with the wrong bag and Gracie inside to boot.

The last time Levy's wife, Kelly, saw Gracie was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old went back to her house in Palm Beach Gardens late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie would usually be waiting, empty.

She tore the house apart looking for the cat, who had been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the neighborhood with "lost cat" signs.

Then she got a phone call.

"Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Kelly Levy quoted the caller saying.

Rob Carter said he made it home with the suitcase before realizing it wasn't his — and there was a big surprise inside.

"I went to unpack and saw some of the clothes and saw it wasn't my suitcase," he said. "I was going to close it, and a kitten jumped out and ran under the bed. I screamed like a little girl."

Carter said that he eventually was able to get the cat to come out from under the bed.

"In the morning, I got close enough to see its collar and the phone number on it," he said. "So I called the number and got a hold of the crying wife of the traveler."

The tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket. Carter said he considered keeping the cat before he knew she had a home.

"We were going to name it Suitcase," he said.

( Cats Survive Wayward Travels. (More pics, and another case.) )

She's a star!

I totally just saw takarakanashi on TV. She's in the crowd on tonight's TNA wrestling. Here's the comment I left to her in her own journal:

"I just saw you! Dude, it looked like you were turning your head and laughing with your friends the entire time SharkBoy was doing his speech. AND THEN THEY CLOSE-UP'D ON YOU (well, Adam didn't make it into shot) AND YOUR FRIENDS!!!

I was sitting about a foot from the TV screen, and I pointed you out to Philip. Then, when they did the close-up, I hit the screen and yelped, 'THERE SHE IS!'"

...

Yeah, I was a little bit excited for her. ;-D