"What?! There are no wildebeests in my room!"

-Tyro

I'm posting from Eric's parents house, where rj_swashbuckler and I are staying tonight. Apparently there is wireless (yay ( Read more... )

Last night, driving back from the movies...

Tyro, in a woebegone voice: Ty? I think I've figured out what the three most difficult questions to answer are.

Ty: Yeah? What are they?

Tyro: They are ( Read more... )

Tyro: I just realized my friend Jared has a very radioactive family.

Ty: Radioactive?

Tyro: Yeah. There's Jared, and an older sister and a younger brother and a mom and a dad and a dog and a cat.

Ty: You mean "nuclear"?

Tyro: Yeah. Radioactive.

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Paraphrased, from this morning

rj-swashbuckler, describing my " ( Read more... )

Buttercupism from the other day:

Eating Kashi with soymilk for breakfast does not make you a Buddhist.

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Tyroism from last night:

What do you call it when something sleeps during the day and is awake at night? Is it "nihilistic" or "necrophiliac"?

6:20 a.m.
Tyro emerges from his bedroom, sleepy-eyed, and comes to say good-morning---and also this:

"In my dream, I had to explain the law of gravity to some really stupid people in space. ::pause:: My brain hurts."

This is out of context, because that is how Tyro expressed it and what Buttercup heard, which made it hilarious.

Scene: Tyro, Buttercup and me in the kitchen last night, discussing my planned appearance to talk about Ramadan in Tyro's social studies class and whether it was actually going to occur*.

Tyro: You have to tell me if anyone asks for ( Read more... )

1. Starring Buttercup
Buttercup calls me at work.
Him: Why can't I watch TV??? My room is clean.
Me: There are piles of clothes all over the place!
Him: That's dirty laundry!
Me: Then get started doing the laundry.
Him: But other than that my room is CLEAN.

2. Starring TyroTyro: Do you know that Bill sometimes brings fried chicken to school for ( Read more... )

(whew)... this being an extraordinarily lean year, I'm not doing a whole lot of shopping, but I am almost done with the little I am doing. Thankfully the kids aren't back for two weeks, so I have a little bit of time before I have to get their stuff (and by then my Jan. child support will be here---woohoo ( Read more... )

We got back in from California Saturday night and spent all of yesterday trying to recover but no dice ( Read more... )