I saw a beautiful rainbow this morning!

It was only one leg of the rainbow, but it was brilliant! I could see the entire visible light spectrum vividly. My late Bunji-boo cat must have sent it. (Thanks Boo!)

It almost made up for the idiot drivers who made me 8 minutes late to work. Damn fools. Don't they know it isn't safe to dart in and out of traffic in the rain? People can't jam on their brakes in time with the roads all slippery. Then they all pile up and block the road. I'm smart enough to slow down and leave lots of space between me and the other cars. I wish they all were.

I made apple cobbler last night. It's comfort food for my hubby. It took much too long to prepare and my nerve-damaged arm is really hurting from all the peeling. I think I'll ask Santa to bring me a professional apple peeler/corer/slicer this Christmas. But it turned out even better than Thanksgiving's batch, so I'm very glad I did it. The house smells wonderful! Tonight when I get home from class, I'm going to heat some up and put Haagen Daz (sp?) vanilla ice cream on it! Mmmmm!

I'm so excited for all the people who want to exchange Christmas/holiday cards! This is going to be so fun having new US friends and an international Christmas! Yay!

Last night I wanted to get digital photos of the kitties faces straight on for modelling the card. Cats are not very cooperative. My hubby was laughing his ass off watching me try to lure them with catnip leaves and to get their attention while trying to get his camera aimed properly. The delay between the press of the button and the click of the shutter was just enough for them to turn their faces away or flip their ears back. grumble. I love my babies. They just frustrate me.

Since some of you teased me...

I thought I should clarify that my fears about telling you who I really am is not about you, it's my own internal fears.

As most of you know, I was abused in several ways by different people as a child. As an adult I've been stalked by one man and raped by another. The result? I don't trust people easily. Some of the news stories I've read about people stealing identities of others over the internet and what exactly people can dig up about a person given enough information have left me paranoid. That's where my fear comes from.

When several of you started exchanging postcards, I felt left out. I wanted to join in, but I was afraid. Then I realized I could control things here by making my offer to exchange Christmas/Holiday cards "friends only." So I worked up my courage and posted!

So please don't take my fear personally. None of you have given me any reason to fear you. In fact, you've all given me many reasons to trust you and open up more. So I have. Thank you. :)

I love you!

Weird dreams abound today! Here's mine

I was at Hogwarts and needed to get to my dorm. But there was no way to get there directly. I had to take a tram to Slytherin and infiltrate the ranks there (it was military for some reason). I had to get two promotions before I'd be able to somehow leave to go to my dorm, Hufflepuff. I'd already tried going through Ravensclaw only to end up at Gryffindor. It was as if it were some kind of puzzle to solve. I got in at Slytherin just fine but some of the officers were suspicious of me. I was having trouble with the fancy salute they all did. One officer pulled me aside and whispered not to worry, that he understood why I was there and was about to leave for Hufflepuff himself, so he'd slip me out with him.

That's when Cactus sat on my chest and woke me up. Beastlet. Now I'll never know if I got to Hufflepuff or not!

If I'm having these dreams before seeing the movie, what are my dreams going to be like afterwards?

Coffee.... I need coffee...

I was up much too late baking apple cobbler last night. I've got class tonight. I was falling asleep at my desk so I went to make more coffee. The bottled water dispenser is empty. The refills are used up. The bottled water machine downstairs isn't accepting money. ARRRGH! I NEED CAFFEINE! So I bought pepsi. THAT machine is accepting money. It will work for a while but the sugar will get me in the end. I always crash about an hour after eating/drinking sugar. It's an effect of my ADD. Grrr. I'll have to hang in until I get to school. THEY have coffee. *buuurp* Carbonated soft drinks do it every time.

Why don't I use tap water? The water in our building tastes poisonously bad. So my company provides bottled water. Most if not all companies in this building have bottled water. The water delivery guy keeps leaving one too few bottles unless we catch him in the act of delivering and demand the third bottle, so now it's all gone and we don't know when he's due back.