It's lovely weather -- so nice that I feel bad making the children go to school and occasionally take them out so we can to something theoretically educational but really fun like walk in the Rose Gardens (history) or around the lake (geology, city planning ( Read more... )

I've got (technically it's the family's but pffft to that) a new notebook and things are different! Windows XP not 95. And AOL for a bit to see if I like it, or more to the point, can make it look like my old pc ( Read more... )

No snow days for my two but someone tried to burn down their school and their unit is unusable. Today and tomorrow they're off school and then they get parcelled out to the other units. My boy was in tears at the thought of someone doing it deliberately, as, no doubt, is our principal ( Read more... )

This is me, but I'm older ::grin:: and I do so too care about love ( Read more... )

Tax returns, in the form of family tax benefits got divvied up between us proportional on weight (first time I'm happiest to be the heftiest!) so there has been a fair bit of frivolous frittering going on this weekend ( Read more... )

It's hot, so I'm flaky, the children are Pokemoning and the cats are as stretched out as I've ever seen them.

I'm also wondering ('cause my brain is twirling) whether Wesley would have watched "The Goodies"? Everybody goes on and on about Monty Python but I like The Goodies much more! The cheating at poker (played with hands of toast) in "The ( Read more... )

2005 is off to a good start ( Read more... )

Now, unfortunately for her I'm writing for eloise_bright; her fiction has entertained me enormously but I don't think we can say that the reverse is true, especially since I forgot the moonlight.
Plus it's only 200 words (about 4 times my usual size) ::sheepish shrug::

Wanted: Snow. Moonlight. Giles falling over...
Not: Buffy/Giles, Willow/Giles

( Perception )

I'm almost all ready for Saturday, only got to buy smoked salmon and the sponge biscuits you use for tiramisu -- I could bake them but there is no way my oven is going on in this heat!
The presents are wrapped, the children managed the once a year vacuuming of their rooms and the spa has finally been fixed!I like summer holidays! Or actually, I ( Read more... )

There's no reason, nor justification for this but that I had fun. :)
(it is possible my brain has overheated, Summer has hit)

( Very Silly Poem, you have been warned )