1. What are you wearing right now? Black dress pants, tan sweater, my fave argyle socks (at work). What have you eaten today or plan on eating? Plan on salad for lunch and cauliflower pasta for dinner. 3. What is your weather like today? Ugg! (Boston) Kinda overcast - AGAIN. It's *slightly* better today, but still no where near what June 25th SHOULD be! 4. Do you have anything special or important planned for this week, and if so, what? Trying to get some office work done before I'm off next week for my husband's shoulder surgery. 5. If you could sit and gossip with one famous person, either from past or present, who would it be? I'm not talking about Big Brains, I'm talking about someone you think would be chatty, gossipy and fun. :) Well, it would have to be someone from the past, I think, as I don't much care about today's gossip. I'd love to have met Isabella Stewart Gardner. She had a real reputation for eccentricity. Plus, I'd ask her what she thought about the theft. :) Where do you prefer to get your news from? Internet and talk radio. 7. For you women, do you wear a bra when you're home, knowing no one is coming over? hee Sheesharee - ditto! I am almost ALWAYS wearing one. Don't know why, it's just what I've always done. 8. What plant in your garden is thriving this summer? My son's green beans he planted in school and brought home. Seriously, he doesn't get his green thumb from his Mama, that's for sure. 9. Where did you get the best hamburger you've ever eaten from a restaurant or a fast food place? Do not include homemade burgers. From a little restaurant in NH that I cannot remember the name of, when we were on vacation. 10. What do you see out the window closest to where you're sitting? The Mystic River (from my office).

Napping weather! LOL. Kids went back to school today, so the house was peaceful. We've had 2 inches of rain the last 24 hours, a very even rain, not too hard, but constant. So, with the quiet empty house, dark skies, the sound of the rain on the roof/windows, and in the background my dryer running... I've had a hard time keeping my eyes open today! For a while I just gave in and let myself recover from the last two weeks of chaos. ;o)

So. CA---in the 60's, coolest day we have had in many months. Trying hard to rain, but I don't think it will happen. The coolness is welcome though. Some of you may be hearing about the predicted El Nino conditions for So. CA this winter including very heavy rain, flooding, mudslides, potential disastrous conditions. It's getting heavy media coverage, reminds me of all the hype over Y2K. Remember that? Not saying that this winter could be challenging.

North of Chicago along Lake Michigan. We may have already *had* our winter -- lots of snow. (Kidding.) Today's high may break a record of 55F, but then we go back to the twenties tonight. Happy to see our driveway again (dark gravel, but north-facing). Blue skies here, decorated with FAST-moving clouds out of the west. DIL's sister and family were delayed coming in from SLC yesterday. Hard to get TO the airport in a storm, then two hours on a plane that cancelled, then more time waiting in the airport for an eventual flight to ORD. (Well, I *think* they got here; saw flights moving later in the day. To those living in the Dakotas: Didn't the native Americans *go south* in winter? Something to think about? LOL