But, soon it will be my birthday, so all will be ok.

I keep waiting for mine to be declared a national holiday, but so far no luck.

June will likely kill me.

Taming June~ma to Nora.

What's going to kill me is Sara -- in the past month, she's decided that if she wakes up in the middle of the night, it's imperative that she scream and scream until we give in and bring her into bed with us. She always slept so well, I don't know what's going on. And she goes to bed awake at bedtime, so it's not a matter of her not being able to fall asleep on her own. At 2:30 a.m. (or 3:30 or 4:30), I just don't have the energy to go in and soothe her fifteen times until she gets the message that she has to go back to sleep in her crib. But a squirmy toddler in the bed does not make for a restful night.

Congratulations, Kristin! I'm eager to hear more whenever you're ready.

Yikes, Lilty. A family self-defense course sounds like an excellent idea to me. Anything that will help your great-aunt, etc., feel capable of holding him off until the police get there, should he try to force his way into the house or something. Deadbolts would probably help with that, as well.

Yay, house of your own, askye! Yay! When I've had doors that could only open with a key, I've left a copy stuck in the inside of the lock all the time. There may be a reason not to do that, but I don't know it if there is.

{{Nora}} At least you have achievable goals. Are you going to keep working where you are when you start school?

Amy, could it be night terrors? I understand their pretty common for toddlers.

Not that that will help get her to sleep, because I don't know any way to get rid of night terrors, but it might be an explanation, at least.

Amy, could it be night terrors?

I don't know. Neither of the boys had them, so I guess I should look it up.

I don't think I said congrats on the successful move, by the way. So congrats! All unpacked yet?

June! June! I love June! And not just because my birthday is in 23 days!!! June is summer, yo, and it fucking ROOOOLZ!!!1!

while I was making dinner I managed to flip a piece of chicken behind the stove.

You seem to cook very acrobatically.

Erin - that's a horrible surprise and I hope you hear from your prof soonest.

I had heard that Tom had enthused about Katie on Oprah. . . I hadn't known about the bizarro jumping up and down and stuff 'til I followed that link to the screen caps. What a weirdo!

One of my mother's childhood friends jumped out of a window (and killed herself) thanks to ppd. Tom is a creep and an idiot.

Are you going to keep working where you are when you start school?

Well, the job stress should ease off some after June, damned June. So I will still be here for a while at least. My work is paying for school, so I'll be at the general university for a while at least.

I'm going to see if next spring/summer will be like this one and consider my options then. My boss is of the opinion that we shouldn't want to die and kill ourselves, so her scheduling in the future may be a bit more realistic. To be fair, we have some monsterous situations that have occurred this spring/summer that should never align again.

I don't like hating June, but it is really hating on me, so I have no choice. All the work stress and 50-60 hour weeks over the last few months have been a warm up to June.

t melts

Sorry for whining.

All unpacked yet?

Ha! I have gotten all the boxes that were physically in the kitchen unpacked, and the den is pretty livable, but there are still alot of boxes. I"m trying to stick to unpacking at least one box every day, but I didn't even do that yesterday. Oh well.

My boss is of the opinion that we shouldn't want to die and kill ourselves, so her scheduling in the future may be a bit more realistic.

That's good. Not every boss holds that opinion. I hope you June is not as bad as you expect, Nora, and if it is, that you get through it and things get easier.

I need some advice.

I realized the other night that the majority of the outlets in the house are two prong and not three prong. I've had to run extension cords in order to get my tv/dvd/vcr and computer plugged in. I'm sure this isn't the safest thing to do.

But I'm not sure how to approach my landlady --- I know that there wasn't much done on the house in the 10 yrs that my grandmother lived there and for some reason she bought the stove and maybe the fridge. I feel kind of demandy because I've already mentioned the gutters need to be cleaned, the screens need to be replaced, and asked to have an exterminator come because of possible rats. They were keeping the rent really low Grandma E and only raised it by $50 for me. They could get at least $300 more for the place and I haven't signed a lease yet so I'm worried that my landlady will think I'm too much trouble.

I was thinking about waiting and sending a note about the outlets with next months rent. Should I mention it now, or just wait?

Askye, can't you just get adapters for the outlets?

t edit Something like this: [link]

Or a single adapter, like this: [link]

And this one is a thing of beauty, because of its many outlets (I use it in my apartment): [link]