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J's class is going to the berry farm for the pumpkin patch on the fifteenth. The Dude's class is going on the sixteenth. I get to go two days in a row. There may be a downside to this two-different-schools thing...

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The table is working out great. The buttmunch at work has ceased to bother me as much. One of the people that he's mouthed off in front of confirmed that he's making himself look bad, not me, which helps ( Read more... )

Work is sort of crappy, because I've come to the realization that someone I used to like a lot has now turned out to be a bully - a misogynistic, bullying jackass, to be more precise. I've got more time on the job than he does, but he seems to feel the need to tell me how to do mine. A mindset I've run into a lot in the last ten years is that ( Read more... )

We need a coffee table, so I looked on craigslist. Someone responded to my "wanted" ad with her listing, which looked like what we wanted (cheap and sturdy) in the photo. I went to pick it up, and she said, "It's a little longer than I thought it was when I posted the ad..." I though it looked a wee bit big, but I figured it wasn't that much ( Read more... )

We went to dinner in the 'hood tonight - they have two boys, the elder of whom is six months older than the Dude, and, coincidentally, also named Jude. Not only do they have the same unusual name, we live a block apart. He's actually the reason we call him "Dude," because he went to the same sitter and got there first. It started out as "Big Jude ( Read more... )

This week, I finally purchased a full twelve-piece setting of matched flatware. We've always had plenty to eat with, but now we can serve more than three people using matching forks ( Read more... )

Last week, my parents invited us over for dinner. My mom made barbecue, coleslaw and green beans, and had fresh strawberries for dessert. The Dude did his usual good job on his dinner, but J balked at the coleslaw. The rule is you try it before you declare you don't like it, but he elected to have a hissyfit instead and didn't get dessert ( Read more... )

( I guess I'd fit right into the barony today... )