Lilty, I'm sorry to hear that. That's awful.

Stephanie, I'm glad you don't have to deal with a naked baby.

Thanks. I was irrationally upset about the idea of losing her clothes.

Families are so weird. normally i get along well with mine but this trip is grating so far.

Families are so weird. normally i get along well with mine but this trip is grating so far.

Makes sense, though. You have a new-ish baby, just got done with taking the bar, and are probably closer to needing to just hermit up and decompress than to make with the family visiting stuff.

very true. i had just gotten comfortable in my own house and now i've been uprooted. I'm looking at this as a chance to get to do lots of stuff alone with Ellie.

I talked through the whole with joe this morning. he tells me i'm not crazy or selfish, so that makes me feel a bit better.

Stephanie, you've got to be exhausted. Everything grates on me when I'm exhausted.

Lilty, I am so sorry for your cousin's SIL and family. How awful. I hope her parents get home in time to say goodbye.

I was on the phone with my best friend the day of that accident. She was waiting to hear from her daughter who'd headed to Bar Harbor that morning, and hadn't yet. L is going away to college in a few weeks. She and her friends were taking a little trip together before they go their separate ways. L beeped in while were were on the phone, finally. It had taken them 11 hours to get there (I think it's like a 6 hour trip from here). They knew there was a terrible accident, because they were parked on the turnpike for hours.

Cindy, your new tagline made me laugh. Very funny in a twisted way.

Thanks. It is sick, but I need to laugh right now, even if it is a dark laugh.

DISCLAIMER: No baby seals were harmed in the making of this tag.

The Wally report: I had a date today, met a woman for lunch. I doubt it'll go anywhere (she didn't seem very excited when I told her about the mimic octopus! Go figure!) but she was pleasant company and all. Oh, and she said she was impressed I was so up-front when she asked about how things stood between me and Bec, and that it sounded like I had things together.

So, like I said, I doubt it's going anywhere, but there are surely worse ways to spend an afternoon. Oh, and I've put up a new pic of myself, dressed in a suit. That's a side of me that doesn't really appear within my profile; and besides, I reckon I look good in a suit.

As a general rule, men look lovely in suits and tuxes. More casual styles seem to depend more on the particular man and his particular looks, but I can't think of a man I've seen, who has looked bad in a well fitted suit or tuxedo.

I was just drawing a picture of a hedgehog (in Photoshop), and was zoomed way in to detail the quills, when my DH took a break from the paper he's writing, came around, looked at my monitor, and said "DINSDALE?!?!?"