Had a lovely, if exhausting, extended Thanksgiving holiday. I hope your week was grand whether it involved holidays or not!

The In-laws made a spontaneous decision to come to Austin for a week. We had already committed to being in Houston for the holiday and SIL had already made plans to go to San Antonio to be with them. Oh well, it worked out.I ( Read more... )

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Today did not have an auspicious start but it is getting better so I will trust that things are going in the right direction and hope that they continue ( Read more... )

The Boy had a friend over this evening and they got to riffing on those Dos Equis 'Most Interesting Man in the World" ads (which, granted, tend to be very funny except when they miss entirely). Mostly, the were keeping themselves in stiches with a lot of in jokes but then they came up with this ( Read more... )

Me: ~ makes mildly unpopular parental ruling on a computer gaming question ~

The Boy: "You have a valid point."

Me: "OMG, WHAT? Are you sure you're allowed to agree with me?"

The Boy: "I'm only fourteen; my instructions say this is the time to lull you into a false sense of security."

The Boy: "I miss Janet"

Me: "And Mafanwy"

Me: "I bet they're together; running a B&B in the Beacons!

The Boy: "Yeah, Bed and THEIR Breakfast"

Years and years and years ago when The Boy was tiny and I was on the road several times a week in my caregiver guise we found a CD set of D'aulaires Book of Greek Myths read by Sydney Poitier, Paul Newman, Kathleen Turner, and Matthew Broderick. It is an unabridged narration of that collection (which is entertaining and relatively complete if not ( Read more... )

aka I've got a really busy day ahead and some time-sensitive tasks so it made perfect sense to spend the last hour adding commentary and embedding videos in the Lyrics Meme post from yesterday. Umm, right. Now, you should VALIDATE all the time I just, uh, wasted, by clicking over to see what you knew without knowing you knew and check out the ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a lovely evening, whether you were celebrating Chanukah or not. The Boy was still squeeing over his Salvador Dalek T-Shirt when he donned it this morning. Heh, the hand that rocks the cradle, INDEED ( Read more... )