Me:
It has now been 26 months since I had more than 3 hrs sleep in a row.  I've been feeding stray cats in the neighborhood, ever since I saw the teenies - two incredibly tiny cats , eating chicken bones from a neighbor's garbage.  A while back the friendliest one was hanging out on our porch when we left to take Elder Son to school; when I came ( Read more... )

Today is The Daughter's 16th birthday.  We actually had a pretty nice (if brief) chat on the phone ( Read more... )

I make a lot of my decisions in life based on a kind of weight-based value judgement ( Read more... )

from the 18th to the 25th.  If your worship derives from the Egyptian pantheon, you should definitely move there.  The dry air has left me a cracked and dessicated mummy.  We visited with my stepdaughter, her family, and my husband's step-grandparents.

Apparently, the grandpa was an international man of muckety-muckness in the 50's through the 70' ( Read more... )

cuz whenever he falls asleep in my arms, he sleeps with one eye open.

Even when I close it, it just sorta slowly drifts back open.  Icky.

'Course, this distrust could be because just as he was working out what those long things at the end opposite his head are for, we torture him by strapping him into his carseat for a 7+ hour drive to Eureka for the ( Read more... )

But I'm not really in the mood to do an extensive post, right now ( Read more... )