I must be going completely puppy crazy, it's hard not to when the puppy looks like this! Here are a couple of photos my neighbor took the other day when I was playing with Stryder out in the driveway.
I felt so decent yesterday that I was actually able to eat some regular food, so I made myself a German Pancake for dinner. Alright...not your usual dinner fare, but when you're sick, I think it's totally acceptable. For those of you who haven't had one, they are really good. You can serve them with fruit, but I like to drizzle mine with lemon juice and powdered sugar and top with syrup.

I have a small pile of presents sitting on my kitchen table from some relatives back home in the Northwest. Since I'm single this year, I'm not really doing Christmas, per se. No tree, no lights, etc. At any rate, I got these presents in the mail about a week ago and they're just sitting here, begging to be opened. If I was in my early 20s, I would have opened them when I got them in the mail and not said anything about it until Christmas day. It's not like anyone would KNOW, right? Unfortunately, now I have a bit more of a conscience. Plus, Wally would give me the guilty stare and make me feel it.

The song for today is "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2. It comes off their 1983 release War. I loved everything about U2 when I first saw them on MTV in the early 80s. They were cool looking, they were full of angst, they were Irish...what's not to like? Who did't wish they could be Bono marching out on stage waving a flag as he sang this song? One thing I will tell you - I never would have foreseen U2 to have the staying power they've had, or that Bono would still be so politically involved in everything (I love the guy, but I wish sometimes he'd just shut it and be a rock star). In fact, for his efforts, he is this week reciving the honor of the British Knighthood.

Like I said, I always loved U2 - until they got to about Atchung Baby, and started playing dance music. I kind of tuned them out for several years while they did that, along with the subliminam messaging of the Zooropa videos. I only came back to appriciate them after 2000 when they reinvented themselves with All That You Can't Leave Behind - reinvented meaning they sounded like the OLD U2! I had a friend staying at a place on an island in Thailand for several weeks where they turned the power off every night and turned it back on in the morning. The way everyone knew the power was back on would be to hear "Beautiful Day" blaring up the beach. It seems like the perfect song to hear in paradise to signal that you can go get your smoothie now.