Why do they feel it is necessary to interrupt my shows to tell us it is raining?  Like I couldn't open a window and see that for myself?

Whoever said "many hand make light work" never went food shopping with pre-teens.

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

This is probably old news to most of my flist, but just in case anyone is as behind as I am

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I bought donuts for dessert tonight.  My daughter said "no thanks" and that she wasn't hungry and my son said he'd rather have ice cream.

*sobs quietly in corner*  they said NO to DONUTS!!!!  I am so confused! 
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So I spent all week trying to finesse this drabble for
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I love America...

"David Csaky,  known as "Squirrelman" to his Seattle neighbors, has been living in a homemade tree house with million-dollar views of a lake and Seattle's Queen Anne Hill for the past three years, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "I was happy as hell," Csaky, 52, told the paper. But his joy has come to an end as ( Read more... )

I worked 11 hours straight today.  Usually my work day is only 7.  *ugh* is about all I can manage about now.

Remember the bomb threat at where I work?  Apparently a 11 and 10 year old were left alone (it's spring break here) and spent the day calling places to report bomb threats and whatnot.  We were the 7th place they called.  The police had ( Read more... )

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles (to quote "Fiddler") my 
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I opened up my bigbang to start working on it for the day and decided to check the word count.

12345 words.  :)

Almost makes me not want to write more because that is just SUCH a cool word count.  Nah....

My bigbang is nearing the 11,000 word mark and I was about to begin to drop hints to what the alien menace was, except now I have a problem.  I just read the Torchwood book  Another Life, and while it's not exactly the alien storyline I was going for there are plenty of similarities.  I don't know what to do.  Should I:

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