I thought I’d be able to blog a little something when I got home from stress yesterday evening, but really I was a little too worn out and a lot too much filled up with bratwurst, French fries and beer. I had just enough energy left to brush my teeth, change into my jammies and hit the hay.

My Darling B was lucky enough to get the day off yesterday, so she spent the day with Sean. They wandered around town a bit and did a little shopping after they spent a couple hours at a local grocery store ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. B handed out candy canes and Hershey kisses to guilt passers-by into tossing their spare change into the bucket, and said it worked pretty well. One guy stuffed a couple of five-dollar bills into the kettle. I hope she gave him two candy canes.

Then after I finished up at the office I met her and Sean and Jim and Sue at The Old Fashioned for dinner and a few laughs. We hung out there for a couple hours before finally heading home.

The Word of the Day is “consistory:” it’s the formal meeting of the College of Cardinals. We learned this one last night because it’s written on the wall of the men’s room at The Old Fashioned. Why it’s written on the wall is a question for another day.

My Darling B and I switch places tomorrow as she heads back to the office and I get to stay home and putter. I can’t wait to putter. She can very definitely wait to go back to the office. Every so often she lifts her head from the article she’s reading and mewls “I don’t want to go to work,” pouts just a bit until I stroke her hair and murmur, “There, there,” then returns to her reading. It’s very sad.

I must have done enough things right around the department the past few weeks to convince my supervisor that I could stay home from the office. Things have been a little crazy but I got most of the paperwork off my desk and a pre-Christmas lull has set in.

Tomorrow I’m going to get up early enough to make coffee for My Darling B and drive her to work, and then I’m not gonna do nothin I don’t want to do, not even feed the cats. They can catch some mice and bugs for lunch if they get hungry enough.