5 happy things for Monday
I need to kick-start my morning to get past the Monday blahs ...

1. I found my ring! This is the ring that ratzeo gave me a couple of years ago for Christmas, which I wear every day ... and somehow lost last weekend. Not only was it irritating because I hate misplacing things, I was actually pretty sad about the thought of losing it. (I found it, rather anti-climactically, in one of my jeans pockets.)

2. lunapome came over on Saturday, and, among other things, we watched the Mamma Mia! movie. I probably shouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did, but it just has an irresistable charm (thanks, in no small part, to the fact that the cast seemed to have agreed to dedicate themselves to un-selfconscious and goodnatured stupidity). Pierce Brosnan's singing was compared by reviewers to a water buffalo and a wounded raccoon, and I can't argue with that ... but it was still a blast.

3. I watched ratzeo play some online versus Left 4 Dead, and it was actually entertaining to watch. It helped that I finally got to see him play single-player mode earlier, so I knew what was going on. Once you get to versus mode, everything happens at once and it's hard to tell what the appeal of the game is, besides, "Things are exploding! Isn't that exciting!"

4. Speaking of ratzeo, he is the bestest thing that ever bested.

5. I woke up in the middle of the night to Kershach grooming my eyebrow. I nudged him away (it stings!) and he stopped for a second, then started again. I nudged him again and he quit for good. This is a better rate of success than we've had stopping him from grooming ratzeo's head, which he will go to town on for minutes.