Thursday there was an employee screening of Charlie St. Cloud. I brought Casey to work with me so she could spend the day in the park and then I could meet her at the theater instead of having to go all the way home and get her and then come back. She brought her friend Francisco. We could only bring one guest, so Debbie used her pass to get him ( Read more... )

Saturday - My mom picked Casey up and took her shopping for a bathing suit (and of course she also came home with more clothes), and I did laundry, paid bills, put away dishes, cleaned out the fridge and freezer and then later dropped Casey off at a birthday party (15 whole minutes late, and she was frantic in that dramatic teen girl way. I had ( Read more... )

Prison Break came back last night, but I only got to see about half of it because my DVR is an asshole. For the past month or so, it's been freezing up at random times. When it does that, I have to unplug it and then plug it back in. It boots up and then works again. It's been doing it more and more frequently, so I guess I need to call Comcast ( Read more... )

I kept forgetting yesterday was Memorial Day. I guess not getting the day off had something to do with it. Although they did have a parade and a lunch for veterans here. But yeah, Casey and I tried to go to the library last night and it took me a while to figure out why the heck it was closed. Then later I went to get the mail and I was all ( Read more... )

Willow has this new thing where she'll stare at the fridge and whine. For hours. It's killing me. I guess she smells something she likes in there. Over the weekend I cleaned it out, and after I threw out all the old stuff, there wasn't a heck of a lot left. Maybe she wants more of the cheese I use to give her pills twice a day. I originally ( Read more... )

Good news! Casey has been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Her sister delivered the letter last night (their owl must have been ill). There may have been a birthday party invitation in there too. Hee. Wow, Creentmerveille, you go all out when it comes to these parties! That invite was so creative and full of awesome ( Read more... )

I was texting with Casey from work yesterday afternoon, making sure she got home okay and everything, and then I told her to get ready for Girl Scouts. Interesting that I came home later and found that she'd done nothing to get ready. Granted, she was doing homework. But she should have waited on that, because at that point she had 20 minutes to ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I try to cook something as simple as spagghetti. I have this new steel pot that I was boiling water in for the noodles. I don't know what the deal was (are you not supposed to use that kind of pot or something?), but it was taking forever for the water to boil, and there was a ton of smoke coming out of the pot. I ( Read more... )

It's been a good Friday afternoon. I did go to the finance event. Only about 5 of us from the department made it (out of around 20), which is lame. But there were lots of other folks there. The weather was a bit on the chilly side, but if you sat in the sun it was really nice. I painted a ceramic thingy.

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This morning I decided to be creative about getting Casey to wake up (no easy task). I put a tiny bit of peanut butter on her arm and showed it to the dog. LOL. It worked, but when she figured out what I had done, she goes "MOM. She licks her butt ( Read more... )