yesterday i had to stay home with a headache. it wasn't much fun, particularly since i missed a concert - free! - that one of my favorite bands was playing in a nearby park. sigh.

tonight, mike and i went to an off-off-broadway play. it was a musical/comedy/mystery and it was quite good. one of the things that i love about this city is that the pool of theater talent is so huge and so high quality that even the off-off-broadway stuff is amazing. which is good, because mike and i don't have $110 each to go see wicked. (and if we did, i'm not sure that's how we would spend it...)

my brother turned 20 this week. in his honor (and because i wanted to post a picture), here's the most recent picture i have of him.

(um, and that's me next to him)

and now, with absolutely no transitional phrase whatsoever, i'm going to talk about my cats (like i even needed an excuse). i pulled out my step for aerobics today and charlotte prompty lay down on it in that infuriatingly cute manner of a cat who knows she's won. and that's without going into the look on kitten's face when i was actually doing step. i couldn't decide if he was curious or just terrified. at least he didn't attack me.

mike saw an ad for kittens that needed a loving home. obscenely, we were tempted. on the other hand, we might be holding out for a dog of the tiny-but-cute variety (spencer, anyone?)

and on a totally different note (again), mike's boss and mike's boss's wife had their baby. they named her laura. *smiles*