I think now I know why Yankees hate snow. It gets darned icky when it stays around for a week! The same snow that fell last Thursday is still here, only now it's mostly plowed up and grimy. Not so pretty. Just annoying to walk through when you're on your way somewhere and not properly booted up, like you might be if you were, say, playing in it. Today was relatively warm, though (after some icy badness yesterday), and the snow is finally giving up the fight, I think.

Bad stuff in Iraq. I am so conflicted about all this, as I guess just about everyone else is (W excepted -- seems to have no qualms a 'tall). I'm so not for war, and I don't see how our people killing their people is going to help a bad leader (or succession of leaders) get less bad. But then again, nerve gas is, itself, quite bad. And diplomacy apparently isn't helping, since, according to the article linked above, Iraq just gave said nerve gas to al-Qaida in October. So something does need to be done. But it's bad precedents all over the place, and I'm just hoping visions of our country being at war with 12 others (North Korea comes to mind ...) for the rest of my life don't come true. Guess we'll see what happens. And probably soon. Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean.

Ahem.

Geoffrey and I got the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" game for XBox today. That game is the primary reason we got an XBox, so it's very exciting. Buffy will live on in our living room, even if Sarah Michelle Gellar does decide to leave the show and bring that weekly pleasure to an end.

We did some Christmas shopping today. Stores are getting crowded and nutso, but not too bad yet. We did pretty well, I think. I hope everyone will enjoy their fruitcakes. Tee hee. The front of the Target store was all jammed up by a double-line of dozens of carts filled with bags of toys. I thought maybe they were returns or stuff people had put on layaway, but my cashier told me "some lady" came in and was buying all that stuff for charity. The cashier told me the lady had been there when the store opened early this morning and so far had racked up about $2000 of stuff. And she was still going. So cool that there are people like that. I give that nice lady a shout-out.

Finally, the great toilet brush debate. It seems that Geoffrey is a lone weirdo from whom you should hide your toilet brushes. Time and toilet paper (see Carlton for a great recipe) are indeed the best tools for skid mark removal. My boyfriend is gross.