who is gravel?

the other day i took the quiz on glassbooth to see which candidate is closest to my beliefs (that’s what it claims to do). i was an 83% match with mike gravel and i have no idea who he is. then jeremy pointed me towards this scary video. yikes.

i also had
81% john edwards & dennis kuchinich & obama – all tied
75% hilary (who i will probably vote for)

and the last on my list was
35% duncan hunter (no clue who he is either)

lol cats

every once & a while i’ll check out the cats. tonite 3 caught my eye – i had to post.

this one is fantastic – tigger kitty! maybe it’s cause of my love of tigger & winnie but this one was too funny.

the bunnies

and in the totally weird category – u know how a cat’s tongue feels, now see how it looks

happy new year!

happy new year all! hope everyone had a good one.

today is my last day off work. we have a mandatory break each year which is nice except the 5 days comes out of our holiday time. which means i really get 3 weeks per year instead of 4. or rather i get 4 but can only do what i want with 3 of them. it’s been really nice having time off since work has been very busy of late (and it will continue to be til probably april). i don’t really want to go into the office tomorrow.

pix!

don’t ask me why but aussies dress up in costume for xmas parties. they don’t get the whole halloween thing but come xmas party time and it’s fancy dress (as they say – how confusing… fancy dress isn’t black tie but dress up as a lion sort of thing). i had 3 xmas parties to attend this year and 2 were mandatory costume. the third had a ‘white’ theme and some folks took that as an invitation to dress up as well.

first party had a magic theme. i went as a voodoo princess. second party theme was circus/carney trash/cirque de soleil. i went as the bearded tattooed lady. not many pix of me w/in those so look on facebook… several coworkers put their pix up there.

here’s pix from new years eve. it was a pretty quiet one. bbq at some friends’ new house in the burbs. was 104f during the day & cooled down to a sultry 90f at midnight! i adore having new years in summer.

at the beginning of december i was thrown a surprise bday party (def a surprise as it was weeks before my bday!). pix here