[Residents of the Kirkland household will likely hear someone noisily running down the stairs. Others will not receive such a kind warning before the suffering their ears will now undergo.]

[Screached in the highest pitch imaginable on a small child:] THAT WASN'T FAIR! I didn't do anything and that was horrible! Way too horrible! I had to wear those ( Read more... )

[So, the past seven days have been somewhat like an emotional rollercoaster, going from confusion to boredom to the panic to confusion to boredom to brief panic to joy and then back to brief panic to contentment to boredom and now frustration ( Read more... )