Guess What Annie Likes?

Crazy Bathroom Lady

The bathroom at my workplace is very small. The women's room only has two stalls. If anybody is washing her hands and you open the door, you'll take out her butt if you're not careful. I nearly did that today. The woman moved to allow me admittance, and proceeded to put on her very complicated coat.

There are like, four women at my workplace, and I had never seen this one before. We chatted about the weather for a bit, and then she said the strangest thing:

Crazy Bathroom Lady: "I like to put my coat on and get ready to leave in the other bathroom, but men keep coming in, so I'm using this one instead."

Me: "Men keep coming in? To which bathroom?"

Crazy Bathroom Lady: "To the one right beside this one."

Me: "You mean the Men's room?"

Crazy Bathroom Lady: *crazy stare*

The Pimp of Relativistic Cosmology and Statistical Mechanics. (No, it's not Kirk. Yet.)

To further contribute to our rock star life reputation, Kirk spent the past few nights playing with five sets of double nine dominoes.
Behold the result: Einstein, our friendly father of relativity and E=mc²- immortalized in dominoes, as every scientist dreams.

Want to make your our own? Okay!

We also recommend the following documentaries:

• Einstein's Wife
• NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea
• Einstein's Equation of Life and Death

And book:

E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation By David Bodanis

The Royal Puppy At Play

Christmas Day Part I

This is the teapot that Cathy got at the White Elephant Exchange at the Morh's. Actually, techincally it's Kirk's teapot, as Cathy made him "win" it for her after she was out of turns. She loves it.

Another shot of the teapot. The thing to the left fits in and you can put loose tea leaves in for brewing. We've already tried it with the English Breakfast tea that Dustin sent to Cathy for Christmas- yum!

Vanessa wanted to meet Annie, who actually obliged without being *too* grumpy about it.
Vanessa in her Christmas dress, before we opened the presents.
Our tree, with most the presents under it. We can't put the gifts under it until just before we open it, because of curious animals.

Sarah likes her gift. She carried it around all morning. She really wanted to take it outside so she could bury it, and was kind of cranky that she was not allowed to do it.
Despite the unimpressed face, Vanessa really seemed to like the Phonics bus.
It took *forever* to get out of the package.

Linda and her favorite gift this year- the Elephant lamp.

We're off to the Mohr's for Christmas dinner- more to come later!

Snow!

It's a good thing Linda and Kelly made it in last night. This morning, we woke up to this:

So much for the ice storm

We were promised a very dramatic ice storm yesterday. It was going to be bad- power may be out, trees and power lines down, people stranded due to horrible roads. Kirk and I were all set to stay home from work today. On the radio this morning, schools were cancelled. Universities were cancelled-and it's finals week! Even non-essential personnel on the military base had a delayed start! The roads must be horrible, right?

Then we looked outside and saw...lots of rain. No ice, no downed trees, no reason to stay home from work. They must have cancelled those other things last night, when they were expecting the mini-apocalypse.

While I'm glad that we're not getting it as bad as Oklahoma, I was all set for a day off! Now I'm worried that the freezing rain will come while I'm at work, leaving me stranded and forced to subsist on questionable cafeteria food.