He has free rein to mock me for a month now.

Hah! I still (lovingly) mock my mom for forgetting to pick me up after school once back when I was in high school. You are so screwed! Of course, you have the perfect mock back seeing that he has to have his mom wake him up for school.

My aunt and uncle are trying to figure out how my 17-year old cousin is going to survive once he's in college. It takes both of them using, like, a bulldozer and a giant gong to get him out of bed now.

Not to worry Sean, I was laughing so hard driving to school I had tears running down my cheeks. It was just such an outragious lapse. My mother never would have forgotten to wake me up and take me to school. Although Mom will no doubt laugh that I did.

trying very hard not to laugh at Laura

Wait, were we supposed to not?

In that case - Laura, that sounds like a chucklerough snortmorning.

So it's you, ruining my wardrobe choices.

pbbbt.

Pinks and purples and burgundies make me look horribly sallow, so I gotta take my strong colors where I can get 'em.

Teens really do sleep like the dead.

Mmmm. Burgundy. That would account for my shirt, lipstick and earrings today, as well as a bit in my watch.

I look freaking awesome in that coral color around right now

I guess I haven't been to mall in a while, because I don't know what anyone's talking about. But I did see a Famous Footwear commercial in which every pair of sandals looked a young, frilly cousin of a Lilly Pulitzer.

He has free rein to mock me for a month now.

My 13-year-old would be so psyched if I did that. Which I probably will, one day. I can hardly get myself out of bed.

Laura, that is hysterical!

I'm wearing pastel pink right now AIFG!

Well, it's pretty good.

That's a beautiful story, Laura, I will cherish it for ages. That's the sort of thing that made my mom and I promise each otehr that we will always be available to testify that the other does not, in fact, have ALzheimer's, that's how she's always been.

I'm wearing my pink Hon shirt from the Balmeristas.