This is the picture for the day, my sister Faith's Christmas gifts to us: 2 paintings of our cats, Marty and Ellie. We got the paintings hung today, which is pretty impressive for us; often, stuff like this keeps getting put off. We were really, really touched by the present. Also, it's nice to have art and such on the walls - it makes it feel a little more like we live here, and a little less like we're just occupying the space.