did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?

My sister has switched from her West Wing marathon, to Babylon 5. Which is good (I was sick of the WW theme and haven't watched B5 in yonks), but it turns out I can't find half of season 1. Does anyone have my tapes? It's the middle of S1 (War Prayer to TKO), and you would have had them for a while, as I can't remember loaning them in ages. I'm fairly sure they were all bought tapes, so there'd be four tapes.

Fuck I'm getting annoyed with myself. Just as I find some stuff, I realise I've lost track of other stuff. While I'm asking, who has my tape with the Homicide:LOTS ep "Closet Cases" on it? And does anyone have my Sentinel Wonder Tape (bloopers, songvids, interviews)? It might just be misplaced, but I don't think so.

So tired. How we deal with grief in this family - spend a lot of time and energy cleaning the house and preparing lots of food for after the service.

It was a small and simple service, and the celebrant spoke very well. Rels came from all over the place - various parts of Sydney, northwestern NSW (about a 5 hour drive, oneway, for them), Canberra, even Launceston. Found out that one of dad's cousins was badly affected by the recent bushfires. While the house was ok, they lost several containers worth of posessions (they haven't fully finished building the place and moving in). And her husband wasn't with her today, was at another funeral. Crappy time for them.

Nice to catch up with some of the family, many of whom I wouldn't have known if I'd tripped over them in the street.]

Really should go to bed now. Guess the funeral was good for something - I cried for the first time since I was told she died. And did I have a tissue on me? Course not.

Next Sunday is looking likely for a Sydney luncheon, so of course my family starts pondering moving my uncle's birthday thing from Saturday to Sunday. I expect a recap if I end up missing this :)

Cleaned some of the pool fence and have set up and decorated the Christmas tree. Guess I should go get high off silver cleaner now.

Wonder if hnix and sinbrat would care if I invaded them? Cause family time is getting a bit much now with me unemployed, dad retired and mum on holiday :) Sin might, since it'll mean pulling out the new vids that Hannah and I haven't watched yet...*g*

Don't get me wrong, I love my family and get along well with them. It's just the 24/7 thing.

I'm back! And in pain.

Last run of the week, returning to the hotel yesterday afternoon, I took my first real stack of the week. On a flat run, coming to a stop, one ski got caught in the thick, sludgy snow (there was a lot of snow this year, but *way* too warm), I came out of it, and face planted into the snow, getting the wind knocked out of me by a stock to the stomach. As I curled around myself in pain, my sister assumed I'd broken an arm, but the injury count is a rather sore neck and shoulders, and a painful spot on my abdomen.

Other than that, it was a nice week. Snow could have been better, but we had some good skiing, I read a couple of books, and Sam and I saw an echidna wander across a track and bask in sunshine among some rocks yesterday afternoon.

Think I've caught up with lj, but haven't with email yet. How dare things keep happening while I wasn't around ;p

Mum and I took the cat to the vet for a checkup this morning. Tortie is not a good car passenger, and spent the entire 15 minute drive expressing her displeasure with heartbreaking yowls. However, she was very well-behaved when the vet examined her, and she was given a (mostly) clean bill of health. We left her there for the day, as she needs to get her teeth cleaned, which they do under general anaesthetic. I'm trying not to be worried about the anaesthetic, as she was fine when she had this done last year, but she's not a young cat. She's lived with us since I was in 5th grade or so, and don't want to contemplate losing her.

Hope they don't have to remove any more teeth, she'll be toothless soon.