... somewhere a clock is ticking.
It's not as hot today, which is nice. California is on fire - old news - seriously though, I don't remember the last time I saw a clear sky. I think all of the smoke in the air is beginning to affect my breathing. At least today there was a breeze.

Work this week was "ich" - for no particular reason - it just was, and I was happy today was Friday. I went out last night with a co-worker and we drank and gossiped, sitting along University Ave. in Palo Alto at this sidewalk cafe/bar called Pasta! It was a lovely evening and very much needed. That piece in this job has been missing. Not the gossiping so much as the camaraderie (I've discovered that I am a group oriented person. I like having people around me. I'm not nearly as solitary a creature as I pretend to be) This sounds crazy but it's taken a year for me to have a drink with someone from work. People at the office are difficult to befriend beyond the hours of 8-5pm. Not because they aren't likable. Most of them are great; and while at work we chat, go for walks during lunch, step inside each other's offices to gripe about a client, we don't do anything else. Many of them can't be bothered and that says a lot.

Last weekend we went up north to Willits. We adopted a kitten named Simon.



He's very small and very cute. Bailey is tolerating him; more so today than she did when we first brought him home, when she could have killed us both for bringing home a tiny ball of fluff. Leigh is such an over-protective, doting father. It's really very cute.

I've been to two concerts in the past two weeks. Both were great fun in different ways.

I ordered an Obama '08 bumper sticker : )

I am starting my Detox program tomorrow :|

I am addicted to Supernanny. I wish I could hire her to raise our children ... when we have them ; )