Jimmy made the kids cheese-and-bacon omelets and refrigerator biscuits for breakfast, and gave them chocolate milk. They must have been stoked, because when I make breakfast it's cereal and fruit or boiled eggs and toast and fruit, something simple like that. He also made their lunches. I gave them their milk money, made sure they had their ( Read more... )

I have been wanting to update more recently, but our Internet access has once again been unpredictable due to the rain. Rain, rain, rain. I enjoy it. Last night it was a bit ironic, though, that when we lay down to fall asleep, it suddenly stopped. I mean, what's the use of having it rain all day, only to stop when you're about to get all ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed we were taking one of Jimmy's girls to her afterschool detention. It had gotten dark and she was complaining that there were scary things out there. I told her that her dad and me were at least as scary as anything that was out there. Just a moment after I made that pronouncement, a 12-foot tall drooling vampire spirit demon ( Read more... )

I don't know why I'm still awake. Perhaps it's because once I go to bed, I seriously don't want to get up. Ever. Not because I feel so very gross. I'm feeling better, actually. It's because (thank you, codeine!) my dreams have been incredibly detailed, sequential, vivid and cinematic recently. It's so much better than real life. Last night I ( Read more... )

I plucked my sister's eyebrows for her this afternoon while she was over visiting at my house. She complained about the pain the whole time, but the end result was very nice if I do say so myself. Most eyebrows have a definite underlying shape, that when you clean up the extraneous hairs, looks polished but still natural. I can usually see the ( Read more... )