Aw, Jilli. I'm sorry. I feel your pain though.

Awww! Leif singing the ABC song? SO CUTE! Also v. smart.

I am very very confused by the yam/sweet potato distinction. Huh.

Welcome back, EpicTangent!

I feel all of your pain on the fridge thieves. I mean, it's one thing if you steal a little of my milk, or something, if I have a carton there, but...someone took my thing of rice and beans, sometime between 2pm (when I put it in) and 6pm (when I tried to eat it for dinner) the other week. Really pissed me off. I left a nasty note on the fridge, and everyone laughed at it. Hmph.

Iocaine powder. It's the only way to be sure.

Brownies with Choco-lax. Works every tiime. Muah-hah-hah.

I'm in a nonfunctional state due to stressing over closing on the sale of my backyard tomorrow. Any spare no~last~moment~complications~ma would be appreciated.

I think the best plan is to guzzle wine and finish my scary book. Yet making the kids dinner and doing laundry seems to be on the schedule.

{{Laura}}

Do what I did: scrambled eggs. Everyone was happy and it only took a couple of minutes. I don't know what to do about the laundry, though.

Has today just been an extra sucky day? {{everyone}} it seems like it's been a ~ma, hugs, hairpats kind of day.

I can't believe someone snacked on your lunch, Jilli. My word, my kids know better than that. That would have made me throw it out two, because ewww.

Eventually Pete will learn that if I'm having an emotionally-fragile day, playing Twenty Questions about why I'm not being very talkative on the phone at work will lead to me being more upset, won't he? The whole reason I didn't want to talk about being upset is because it makes me MORE upset, and I'd really like to not start crying again.

If and when he does, do you think he could tell me, so I could tell Scott, or better yet, could he translate the lesson to Boy?

I'm sorry you're feeling fragile. I hope you find some peace.

Nora, do you feel better now that you're home?

sj, have fun, tonight.

Laura, good luck to you!

Teppy, I hope your jumpies ease the heck off, too. I'm starting to feel like someone put a whammy on the Bitches.

I took a Lush bubble bar bath, and it was yummy.

Speaking of Lush, I just got the Lush Times catalogue, and a whole bunch of new stuff is coming out this summer, including a chocolate shower gel called (High Fidelity fans, get ready) SONIC DEATH MONKEY!!!!

I'd buy it for the name alone, but then add in that it's *chocolate* -- purrrrrr-fect. Meow.

Tons of other new stuff, too, but the death monkey jumped out at me.

but the death monkey jumped out at me

Isn't this always the way? The head krav instructor gave extra points on our written test if you mentioned a monkey when explaining a particular technique.

I had no idea the movement had gotten that far.

The good news: It appears Utah is no longer suffering drought conditions. The reservoirs should nearly refill this year, which is phenomenal.

The bad news: It's been raining all month and instead of the snowpack starting to melt, it's getting bigger. It's near 300% of normal in the southern end of the state. The rivers are already at flood stage and the ground's saturated. We're looking at another week of rain at least, then the temperature's probably going to richochet back to normal and the snowpack's going to come down fast.

When come back, bring raft.