My marmee rocks.  I was whining about having to come back up here to do a job I hate for no pay, with ubermisunderstandinglady being my boss, and she stops what she's doing, glares me right in the eye and says, "So don't go.  Nobody's sitting here making you."  Shut me the heck up and made me think about stuff.  Very cool move on her part ( Read more... )

Point the First:  I am okay.  The car is mostly okay.

Point the Second:  Wren is awesomeness squared and is now my hero.  Sorry to those of you who were occupying that place before, but you can't beat someone who keeps their cool after you call them twice (2 a.m. and 4 a.m.)  babbling Point the First at high pitch and speed.  She was even calming ( Read more... )

I'm hiding from the pizza delivery man.  See, he thought it would be easy to find me... little does he know, our streetlamp is out and our house numbers are unreadable.  Bwah ha ha!  ...gee, I'm getting hungry all of a sudden ( Read more... )

Come, I say ( Read more... )

So, my sister's friends built a trebuchet, for the heck of it, and then fired pumpkins from it.

They also wear kilts at every party occasion.

I think they're ready to be recruited into the SCA.

Here's the youtube video of the grand First Firing.  You can see my sister and her boyfriend if you squint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icgMgldGfFY

How come ( Read more... )

Ahhhhhh.

Warm cocoa sipped,
wrapping paper wripped.

Cheese trays devoured,
Rum nog has soured (ick!).

"Good night," mumbled,
Pajama buttons fumbled.

Belly aching,
Tums taking.

Happy.
Replete.

One last cookie to eat...

Mmmm. mmmmm.  mmmmmmmm.

Christmas Eve.

So, I'm skipping family Christmas on Christmas Eve 'cause I don't wanna go.  Can't make me!

And my mom freaked out that I'd be alone on Christmas Eve.  She made it sound so pathetic and sad and hopeless...

Luckily, a friend of mine re-arranged her family stuff and is going to take me in for a couple of hours.  She's feeding me chicken noodle soup and ( Read more... )

Hi, folks!

So, some of you have expressed displeasure at holding my graduation party the weekend of 12th Night (mostly because you will not be able to make it).  I am more than willing to change the date of the party, or have two parties, but then we hit a snag.  I don't have a place to throw a party- that's why I picked 12th Night.  I have a single ( Read more... )

Bwah ha ha!

I deserve cookies.  And cheese, lots of cholesterol-laden cheese products.... bwah ha ha.

I figured it out!  I now know why I'm sucking at second grade (thanks to comments and thought-sparks provided by caring readers), and I find myself strangely uncaring, since what I really want to do is wrangle small children (thank you, Eithni, for ( Read more... )

So, I didn't actually handle yesterday as professionally as I could, because we had another chat today.

Apparently, she wants me to think more (probably a good call).  And she wanted everything all at once so that we'd have several days to look it over in-depth and make changes, because she hates the fact that she misses things almost as much as I ( Read more... )