Yesterday, Mom and I went to church, where we got to sing Joy to the World and We Three Kings, to my great excitement, before ending up with dreary old Hark the Herald Angels Sing. As we left, we saw Father Gallagher, who said, "I guess you're about ready to go home now," and I answered, "I'm here for two more weeks, which means that yeah, I'm about ready to go home now!"

Afterwards, we went by Not the Donut Inn. I used to lurve the Donut Inn by the Vons in Burbank, it made the most wonderful whipped cream eclairs in the world, but it was sold to new owners a few years ago. The new owners used all of the old owners' recipes, but they didn't make my whipped cream eclairs.

So when Mom suggested that we go to Not the Donut Inn, I sneered and dragged my obnoxious teenager feet, until I walked through the door and saw whipped cream eclairs! That looked exactly like the old ones, with the unusual piping! I started howling with glee, startling the high school-aged counter girl.

Now, you're thinking that I took a bite out of the donut and it wasn't the same, but it was. Really soft and cakey, with sweet real whipped cream. I cannot believe that I have wasted two weeks here not eating twelve of them a day!

After the donut-a-ganza, I went to visit with my old friends Rita and Simon, and, far more importantly, baby Vivien, who is not so much a baby anymore. She is a great big girl! I mean, she's not yet two so one could put forward the argument that she is a baby, but the fact that she speaks in complete sentences trumps that idea immediately.

Seriously! I was showing her pictures of herself on my camera, then showed her a picture of her and Rita, "Look, here's a picture of you and Mommy!" and she answered, "Picture of Daddy?" so I showed her a picture of her and Simon. So it wasn't just that she could articulate clearly that she wanted to see a picture of Daddy, but that she understood the concept of digital pictures and remembered my shooting him a couple of hours before.

She's so smart, she really is. Rita and Simon are going to have their hands full with this one.

Still going until the Epiphany!

Today's horoscope:
Eagerness isn't always welcome among jaded associates. Catch yourself before making a serious gaffe. Coffee drinkers should switch to tea for steady hands and a clear head in the trouble zone.

One year ago today:
I told him that as long as there were offensive Italian stereotypes, he'd never stop working. "And there always will be!" he answered, with a big grin.

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