My brother and family have gone home. It wasn’t as exhausting as last time, in part because the kids are older now and because I walked away from everything else this week and just used my limited energy on family stuff. Also, I routinely slipped away during bathtimes and lunchtimes to read my book.

( Talk of Adorable Babies and Vacation!Spock under the cut. )

Happy Birthday to the lovely shirebound!!! Hope it was a wonderful day full of wonderful things, darling!


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My sister is sick with the sinus/cough/fever thing. She is the last in the house to have it. First The BFF had it really nasty and then I had it less so and now my sister has it somewhere in between our levels of severity. Still, she insists she will go to work in the morning. I'm betting she won't. This did mean that we caught up on all the ( Read more... )

This weekend we did a rewatch of the extended editions of Lord of the Rings, one movie every night, so we literally just turned off the TV from watching Return of the King. I thought I would have so many thoughts for you all, but nothing inside me is coherent right now. I am afraid you will never get anything coherent and full from me when it ( Read more... )

...Detroit Motherfuckas Till We Die ( Read more... )

So, some people on my flist have had birthdays in the past week and a half. I am slightly late here, but I thought I'd say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to lathan_lover, jacks_boonie and menel!!!! Hope they were all awesome days ( Read more... )