Hubs is beginning to be afraid if I get to bed first. Teddy will be asleep by my head, and Max by my feet. Often not leaving enough room for Hubs to sleep there.

Marie likes the top of the cat tower in the living room.

Anna isn't very snuggly in the summer. Although if I'm reading in bed she'll climb on my lap. I sleep on my side and sometimes I'l wake up with her perched on my side looking down at me.

In the winter she turns into a catlump.

ION, Naturalizer online is giving 50% off the sale prices. So tempting to do damage because they carry my wee size.

I KNOW!! They carry my Fred Flintstone size (rectangular) and it is one of the few stores that I can find shoes to fit me right. But, I just paid tuition and bought a plane ticket. I can't afford it right now. But, come my next paycheck?? Momma needs some new shoes.

If I was going to put my Dutch SiL on the page, I would try to capture the flavor of the way she speaks English. She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit." Which is a combination of translating from Dutch in her head and learning English from schoolbooks. Cleaning up the grammar on her sentences would not be accurate.

Happy happy birthday, Aimée!

I wonder if I can get a nice bendy sole that doesn't die. That would rock.

Yes, you can. I had very thin, bendy soles put on my latest pair of vintage pointy-toe buckle boots, because those sorts of boots ALWAYS have thin leather soles. They extend the life of the boots, and with the added bonus of traction!

Jilli, I just found a pair of wee pumpkin tights!

Raq, I'm sorry you're feeling oogy all over, but the above might be my favorite Buffista statement in recent memories. How cool is that--that you get to mention walking up to the frigging Acropolis, the way the rest of us would mention walking to a bus stop?

Wrod.

In writing, very few things annoy me as much as poorly written dialect. When it's done very well, it's fun even though it's hard to read. When it's done poorly, I just want to throw the book across the room. It's funny, though, as I feel competent to judge poor dialect writing even when I am not completely familiar with the dialect in question. I think I've mostly seen it with Scottish, when writers throw in some dinnas, etc., even though the overall flow of the speech is clearly American. Ack. I have a romance book at home with a lovely cover (much plaid) that I just can't finish because the dialect is too annoying.

Jilli, I just found a pair of wee pumpkin tights!

Yay!

We're babysitting an 8 week old kitten for a friend. Yesterday I went to take a nap, the kitten kept trying to sniff my breath (or something) and I finally got it to stop and fell asleep. When Greg came to wake me, I was sleeping on my back and the kitten was asleep on my tummy. He said it was very cute.

I really dislike regency or historical characters that sound like modern americans too, and have no other input on the dialect subject other than to say that it also annoys me when iincluded dialect makes a character sound stupid, or the book or its characters feel racist or classist.

I am so boooorrrrrrreeeeddddd.....

I need to be motivated and figure out stuff to do in my downtime.