My dad is your typical 60-something, white, conservative male. He is a veteran of the Vietnam war. My mom bought a special New Moon issue of People magazine for my daughters and my dad went off about how all the actors in New Moon should be fighting in Afghanistan instead of acting. He was dead serious and pissed as hell ( Read more... )

I snooped in my 10 year old daughter's diary. Her current crush? Paul McCartney. Oh, Beatles Rock Band.

I wonder if she knows he's old now and not the cartoon Paul singing "I Want To Hold Your Hand".

It's cute though. Paul replaced Nick Jonas. I believe she has a "type".

I'm off shortly, to my mother's house for casseroles! Yes, casseroles! She thought it would be nice to have lots of casseroles for Father's Day. When I think of what fathers like to eat, casseroles are at the top of the list (except not). She specifically asked that I bring a traditional Mormon potato casserole fondly referred to as Funeral ( Read more... )

My sporty, no-nonsense, 12-year-old daughter asked me if she could wear makeup today. O.O Four months ago, I tried to put a little blush on her for school pictures and she had the biggest fit and flat out denied me. I BLAME JR. HIGH AND HER NEW FRIEND TIARA. It's the end of an era ( Read more... )

Sylvia, my cat of 7 weeks, is gone. I took her to the shelter 5 days ago. In a fit of hormones and frustration, I came to the irrational decision that she had to go, because I couldn't deal with my allergies (legit reason) and other general neurotic responses (non-legit reasons) to her very normal cat behavior ( Read more... )

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I'm going on vacation. (Seems 98% of my f-list has been on permanent vacation, ho-hum...) Anyway, just wanted to say I'd be out for awhile, taking the kiddies to see Shamu. Yes, I have liberal guilt about it. Would Shamu prefer being wild and free, rather than putting on multiple shows for tacky tourists? Probably. Maybe Shamu is a performer and a ( Read more... )

Last summer we had an Ant Farm. This summer we are doing the Butterfly Pavilion. A few weeks ago, they sent us the caterpillars and they grew really big and fat and hung upside down and turned into chyrsalids and emerged into butterflies EXACTLY like you hear in science class. Imagine that? Seriously, they are really cool. My girls even got to see ( Read more... )

Who is this fresh-faced youth?


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I've always found "The L Word" to have its own merit, despite how much it's stolen from "Queer as Folk", but omg they really just had their own version of the season 5 bike race. Shane looked just as bad as Brian Kinney in a bike helmet. I laughed. Out loud ( Read more... )