My feet are cold

So there I am, basking in the afterglow of a proper Disney movie (Evangeline!) and we're sitting down to eat at a very un-crowded Ruby Tuesday which I haven't been to in years... we order. I get my Sprite. I'm sipping and waiting for Ari and Derrick to decide what to order when the girls at the bar start flying around a bit, in an obvious tizzy. I can't hear worth a damn, so I mention there's a thing going on at the bar. Derrick listens for a second and says, "Apparently Brittany Murphy died." So we both turn to Ari and she's got no idea, so she searches for her phone, which she left in her car, and then uses Derrick's to look it up.

That was at five this afternoon and I still haven't had it fully sink in. :( Well, I suppose it's now yesterday afternoon. Whatever. I do think Ari summed it up best though. Y'know, not really surprised by it. And yet still shocked all the same. Go figure.

I'd forgotten this until a few minutes ago because I'm only awake this early because I had a horrible, horrible nightmare. It started out okay. In the dream, the boy had acquired two AG dolls from someone (like they were giving them away and he saw a way to earn massive bonus points, I guess) and was considering giving them to me. And I spent the whole damn dream trying to figure out what the best way to say, "GIMME" was. Then, towards the end, I was pissed at some friend of a friend of his who was at the house and being rude to Lady (the dog) and I told him he had two choices. Apologize to the dog and treat her right or get the fuck out. He got thrown out, though the garage was still open. The boy hears the garage door open and he goes to tell whomever to leave or actually stop being an ass and I go check on Widget who just went outside for something.

Yeah. You know nothing good is coming next because I told you it's a nightmare.

Sure enough, Widge starts screaming. And I run out back to see if he's back there with Angel and she's tripped him or something and I see him in the garage (...right) and he's got these hedgeclippers and he's screaming again and freaking out, so I run back to the door but can't get through and he comes close enough that I can see him and Sean's there, heading towards him, and Widge starts shrieking, "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!" and before either one of us can finish assuring him that whatever it is, he'll be okay, he starts turning purple. It sounds ridiculous, but in dream world and the half an hour after I woke up, it freaked me out royally.

However, blathering on about it helped allieviate my mental state. Woo!

So. Princess and the Frog. You should totally see it if it's your kind of thing. Why? Evangeline! ( Whazza? )

To round out my day, I watched the Party with the Penguins DVD and was massively disappointed (...you're fired, Nick.) and admired some of the pretty light displays around the neighborhood and city. Wheeeeeee.

Now. I have presents to wrap and a tree to admire.