Okay, parents: What books did/does your three-year-old love? I am working on my Awesome Auntie status and need some suggestions. For reference: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, which I only know about from visiting
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In just a few hours, if all goes well, I and my parents will have survived a long weekend together, with only two meltdowns (both courtesy of my mother). I am exhausted and cranky, and my jaw hurts from grinding my teeth a lot, but on the upside I got to hang out with jackiekjono, see a terrific play, eat some good food, and go to two bookstores. So on the ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, truepenny lent me Nancy Springer's Larque on the Wing. I'd spent the holidays with my parents; my mom, who gets points for good intentions but perpetually low scores in execution, gave me a couple of xmas presents that prompted renenet to remark, "I think I've figured it out. Your mother lives in a parallel dimension and has never actually ( Read more... )

I'm still ISO extra shelves for my main bookcases. Of course it's just my luck that the company that made them went bankrupt - wait for it - last week. So the company has piles of shelves in their main warehouse, but can't sell them to me because the bank's taken over ( Read more... )

1. Blow music budget for next two months at local used CD shop.

CDs: Audio Bullys, The Frames, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Thea Gilmore (::waves to melymbrosia::), Sarah Harmer, Hem, Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Seam, Son Volt, Richard & Linda Thompson ( Read more... )

Today I drove nine hours to get to my parents' house ( Read more... )

I'm spamming LJ this morning because I'm sitting around the apartment waiting for my parents to show up, and so I don't want to get started on anything that I'd resent being dragged away from (vidding, reading), because that would make me even more surly than usual, and surly h.l is exactly what this visit's First Contact does not need ( Read more... )