Visions of sugarplums...

It's Christmas in New York, which means one thing to a lot of people: shopping. I've been tripping over people everywhere I go. And if I hear the damn Gap commercial with the Love Train song one more time I'm going to the nearest Gap and shove that damn stripey scarf up someone's ass. Fa la la la...

It's also been cold up here. New York has horribly depressing winter weather. We had a blizzard a couple of weeks ago. Except here it is called a noreaster, not a blizzard. In Syracuse I think they call it a flurry. In northern Virginia, it is a snow emergency that requires the federal government to shut down and everyone to go home (never mind that the roads are impassable). Of course, during the noreaster, the heat in our building goes out. Completely. No heat for two days during a snowstorm. That was fun. Last week it warmed up just enough to rain. 34 degrees and raining pretty much sucks. During that time, our ceiling started dripping. I was convinced the roof was leaking until Sean pointed out that there is another apartment upstairs. Oh yeah. How could I have forgotten when the upstairs tenants stomp around in boots all day (don't they work?!)and rearrange their furniture every couple of hours? Tidings of comfort and joy...

In other news, I had LASIK vision correction last Friday. No more glasses or contacts, hooray! If you don't know, in LASIK they actually cut a flap in your cornea, fold back the flap, use a laser to burn away very small bits of the inner layer of your cornea, then put the flap back down and tah-dah! It was a little scary. They give you numbing drops in your eyes so you cannot feel anything, but you can see things happening. I think the grossest thing was that you can actually smell it when the laser starts burning off (they call it "excising", how tidy) your cornea. Nasty. But it was worth it, I can see!!