You know what I hate?

The "Check Engine" light in my car.

It never comes on when I need it. This is true for every car I have ever owned over the course of my life. My alternator dies! Does the "Check Engine" light come on before my car stops moving, on the middle of a strange highway, in a strange state, at night, in the rain? NO! My water pump ( Read more... )

B said, "My baby teeth are going to come out. And my baby arms are going to come out." Then he insisted I pretend to take his arms off and he stuffed them into his shirt until he "grew" his permanent arms.

B has just brought Lord of the Rings/ Wonder Pets crossover fic into being, with his narrative "Ming Ming Meets the Nazghul."

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Quick kid story:

Brendan held up two fingers in the shape of a "v" and asked me, "Is that an eck?"

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OMG, BRUTUS TOTALLY STABS JULIUS CAESAR!!!!!!!!

OMG, ROMEO AND JULIET KILL THEMSELVES!!!!!!!

OMG, THE ALLIES WIN WORLD WAR II !!!!!!!

OMG, TRUMAN DEFEATS DEWEY!!!!!

OMG, JFK GETS ASSASSINATED!!!!!!! AND SO DOES MLK!!!!!!!

OMG, THEY TOTALLY FIND NEMO!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, so I finished Deathly Hallows and I'm totally trying not to spoil anything ( Read more... )

In a conversation last night with whirl_twirl, I was recounting my creative process, for no particular reason other than I'm trying to finish a painting and misery loves company. It got me thinking, though-- do any other of you on my exceptionally creative friends list experiences anything similar in your own creative process ( Read more... )

My son, ever the wild man, saw an old Lawrence Welk Show rerun at his great-grandmother's house a while back, and he loved the music, the dancing, and the bubbles. So his grandmother got him a Lawrence Welk tribute DVD, which he enjoys immensely ( Read more... )

Wal-Mart is selling JESUS ACTION-FIGURES!!!

JESUS ACTION-FIGURES!!!!!!

Anybody got a Potion of Black Dragon Control?

This one is just too funny not to pass along.

http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/