*hi-fives DX*

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t gloat I have my HP6. On chapter 2 for the moment, but lori tells me I've got to clean the garage.

harumph.

I love the polka dot skirt, perkins.

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it was odd - we went to the cafe today and people seemed to think we were crazy for going last night to get HP. although at least one person was reaching out with cluching hands. Sadly, I also reliezed that one of my friends is just too cynical. He just seems baffled by anoyone's enthusiasim for anything. I love when people are enthusiatic about something, even if I think they are crazy.

eta: DH read me the first chapter last night. He gets to read it first, because he does read it faster. I am just going to tell kids at the library that they can't tell me the end.

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I have my HP6. On chapter 2 for the moment, but lori tells me I've got to clean the garage.

Oh, see now, I always wanted a wife, but I have to say, in almost 11 years of marriage, dh has never once told me to clean anything.

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well it's either clean the garage or clean the closet.

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DH and I have come to a tentative agreement- i won't tell him to clean - and he won't tell me. I do most of it - because I am home more. It doesn't mean I don't have a list of things to get done- which we both work off of, or that he doesn't try and convince me to help him with the dishes - but the right to refuse is there. I think if we had kids things would have to be more formal. Ihave friends with a daughter - she is twelAt this point in her life she can't do any type of domestic chore. I think it is bad to make a kid sort of helpless in the basic things like cleaning and cooking. they could end up like Sean and eat moldy rice out of a tube.

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well it's either clean the garage or clean the closet.

Those aren't happy choices. Unless you were being funny about closet, in which case, I laugh, but with you, not at you, because you should get to read your book. I never laugh when people don't get to read their books, unless it's my kids, because they've had a huge, negative impact on my reading life.

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I have friends with a daughter - she is twelAt this point in her life she can't do any type of domestic chore. I think it is bad to make a kid sort of helpless in the basic things like cleaning and cooking. they could end up like Sean and eat moldy rice out of a tube.

My kids all make their beds (I am not fussy about it, though, but it has to look like they tried their best); put their breakfast and lunch dishes in the sink, clean up their toys, and sometimes, help me put laundry away (I fold, and call each one as their clothes piles build up). They are 5, 6 and 9.

Oh, they also set the table.

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Kat, did you get yours from UPS? Because I am waiting for mine and they usually deliver stuff in the afternoon, so if they have delivered yours it gives me hope. It's gonna be 96 out today and BF has a writing gig and I want to stay in and read, gosh darn it. BRING MY BOOK!

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Fuck fuck fuck. My A/C unit is off, and I can't figure out the problem. I don't think it's a fuse - I tried other things in the same outlet with no problem.

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