Dear Mr. Spider,

I want to apologize for screaming at you in my bathroom. You see, you startled me when you scurried across the mirror while I was an inch from the glass removing my contacts.
I apologize if I seemed a bit scary screaming and flailing about with my one contact-less eye closed. You see, if you had just stayed put on the top or side of the mirror (or wherever you were hiding prior) until I had also removed my left contact, well, I'm really quite blind and would not have noticed you.
But, alas, I did. And I apologize for squishing you with toilet paper and flushing you immediately down the toilet. I plead temporary insanity brought on by fear and my half-blindness that made you look really creepy and scary. I'm sure you understand.

Sincerely,
Bellacantare

So far January has been a bit craptastic.  But with only a week left, it's looking up.  I've been off on a work adventure known as the annual Tahoe Ski Trip.  Four days of being "on" for clients.  Four days of parties, dinners, and little to no sleep.  Don't get me wrong, it's a ton of fun, but I work my tookas off. 

Part of this weekend's festivites included a costume party. A 70's/80's costume party to be exact.  I had a lot of fun with this.



The hair was a great conversation starter.



This pose looked much better in my head.  At least people cheered.



The weekend also brought lots of this.



And this



And eventually, we saw lots of this.

Now I need a weekend from my weekend.

Soooooo much to do. This weekend is the equivilant to what I used to refer to as "hell week" in college. Not that anything was horrible, but just that there would be a lot to do, typically including, midterms (or finals), a theatre show, and other random things like producing the weekly paper, doing Resident programs and working my two student jobs. Basically everything would converge on the same week and I would look at the start of it and just take a deep breath and try to picture myself on the other side of the week, done, and done successfully.
That is this weekend. Monday might actually be a blessing for once.