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On growing up
We'll start with little miss. Tonight she will be attending the second annual (though first for her) Father and Daughter dance at school. Hubby said he saw some of the dads and daughters last year, and it was pretty fancy. SO. She has a lovely organza tiered ruffled dress in white, with a black sash (which she loves and probably would have worn ( Read more... ) -
Ok, so it's not all bad, but it's been a bad year
I won't be overly expository here, but...( weighing it out ) -
One should know better...
Everytime I think that 2011 can't get any worse, it goes and proves me wrong. Fuck you, 2011. -
The Universe wants me to have a fender bender?
Warning, Ranting ( ahead! ) -
In Theory, of course
It was offically Monday morning, but for her purposes, she was going with Sunday night. She watched the snow flurries drift across the patch of light illuminated by the headlights. The traffic light was red even though there were no cars in sight. It was 1:30 am and she'd just discovered that the previously 24 hour Kroger wasn't anymore. They ( Read more... ) -
Well...
You know you aren't too far in the wild when not only can you update your lj, but you actually have better 3g than you do at work. -
How did I get roped into this?
It sounded like a good idea. Fall camping trip, close to home, well traveled park with (relatively speaking) lush camping facilities to help camping newbs like me be more sanguine about being so close to the great outdoors ( Read more... ) -
A little update
First off, I picked up the Kidz Bop - Halloween Party CD figuring the kids might like it. I was SO WRONG. They don't like it, they LIVE IT, BREATHE IT, DEMAND IT, *LOVE* IT! So...I think it was a good buy. I've forgotton what the real versions of a lot of songs sound like...Werewolves of London, Time Warp, I Want Candy, Someone's Watching Me, ( Read more... ) -
You can tell the season has changed....
We went from "Is summer ever going to end?" last week to "Yeah, it ended" this week. It moved right on through "Ooh nice open windows and air everything out" weather right on to lows in the 40s. While I am given to understand that we'll be back in the 80's for the weekend, fall arrived with a vengeance ( Read more... ) -
I figured it out!
The problem is that Rachel, who is going on six, is actually a teenager already.