I don't think she'd go for the Penile Puppetry type entertainment that Marn loved so well, but who knows how their mother really acts when she's away from home?

I've been car shopping these last couple days. No. I should say car obsessing. My coworker, TLH (who, I discovered today, is even cuter in a white button-down and jeans than she is in her kicky, fashionable work clothes), told me about the new MINI Cooper that they're selling in the states, and my interest has been growing ever since. We're talking, if the Cooper S was a woman, she'd have a restraining order out on me by now. It even comes in Badsnake Green (the non-bleeding background color of this website).

I've been driving the same, sensible, no frills, gray Honda Civic 4-door sedan for almost 15 years now, and I vowed that I would splurge a little on my next car, and that it would not have to be as sensible as a pair of beige nursing shoes. I want my next car to be fun. But not so fun that it would somehow, mysteriously, become Deb's car when I wasn't looking and I wouldn't ever get to drive it. For instance, any kind of convertible I might get would become Deb's car in a matter of minutes. Suddenly, I would be driving the Saturn, and my cute little car would be gone. Along with my wife. And regular meals.

Speaking of restraining orders, I had a sex dream about a certain curvy, round sex goddess last night. Yum. Thanks, Curvy Sex Goddess.

BEWARE: MINOR BUFFY SPOILERS

Buffy theme last night: The fallout of testosterone poisoning. Spike, Warren, Xander. Jonathan is the only male who did anything admirable last night. I loved Andrew's misguided rocket pack exit attempt. And we were rolling over the Ben Wa Balls of Braglesnrf (or whatever) granting invincibility.

A long time ago, Dorothy Allison told us that the way to make your audience cry (or at least very upset), was to make them laugh or go "awwww," and then make something truly horrible happen. That's what Joss did. Bastard. Good television, though.

Plus, the episode inspired some interesting attitude in Julian for a lovely morning visit with Eleanor this a.m.