BionicTigs - Great “Operation” style OP, BT. Although it hurts like like a David Hasselhoff concert right now, consider the future applications of your new Bionic appendage: If someone pisses you off, you can use your rebuilt knee to kick to propel your foot with mechanical precision and lightning speed that looks cleverly like slow motion right where they’d rather you not, all accompanied by a staccato chattering noise. I mean, how cool is that?
Olives - HappyBelatedBirthday! I expect that at least one of those gifts was as much a gift for your hubby as it was for you. 
Ugh. The phones are ringing off the hook here. Really busy day, but not because of any environmental conditions; it appears to be just coincidental that everyone seems to be picking today as a good day to call. First call I got this morning however was on my hell phone. (snerk I meant to type “cell phone” but this came out instead – I think I’ll leave it.) It was an unknown number. I pick it up.
Me: “Hello?”
Woman on other end: “Are you going to kill me, now?”
Me: :: blink :: Um …
Woman on other end: “Oh, is this so-and-so?”
Me: “Uh, no, sorry…”
Woman on other end: “Oh, I must have the wrong number, I’m terribly sorry, dear.”
Good thing. I don’t remember making an appointment to kill someone this week.
In other news, we just had a huge snow squall that blew snow all over the damn place for all of five minutes in between bright sunny periods. Wacky weather, it is – I’d laugh but it’s really cold and is supposed to get down to -30C or so with the wind chill tomorrow. UGH!
In still other news, ever eat something you haven’t eaten in years because you used to love it but now try it and discover it’s really not at all what you remember? Yeah, I’m having one of those revelations. When I was a kid I used to love Moritz Icy Squares. They were milk chocolate but somehow had this weird 'n wonderful cooling sensation without actually being mentholated or minty in any way. It was really soft chocolate too so it melted really quickly and had this lovely sweet, almost flavoured taste that accompanied the chocolate nicely. Well, on a whim while shopping last night I saw they had some in a bulk bin at one of my home-local supermarkets so I picked up just a small handful. I just tried one.
Yecch!! These are not the Moritz Icy Squares I remember. Those were smooth-textured and icy chocolaty, even if they weren’t great chocolate. These were that wretched coacoa-powdery Allan-style artificial imitation crapola. It didn’t even taste that “cool” and it definitely didn’t taste like anything resembling proper chocolate, even if they were soft – but definitely not creamy. Good thing I only picked up a few, because the trash is going to be eating them now. Yecch!! At least I bought some Lindt truffles as backup. At least they can take this horrid taste out of my mouth. Damn you, Moritz! Damn you to hell!
) Now I am going back to sleep for a while.
So I took the immobilizer off, took more drugs, and collapsed in a fit of weeping and self-pity. Hey, I earned it!