Yes. I have on clean underwear. You goof!

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The Stitch-ball is a brilliant idea. And if nothing else, you can do that in doctor's offices waiting rooms to get a little space.

I have yet to shower.

VW, I can't add much to all the wise things everyone else said, but put me down for a GO YOU cheer.

Suzi, remember that you need to email me about stuff.

The StitchBall always works.

From my lofty perspective of wisdom, things turn out okay. That doesn't mean the struggles ever really stop, but the suckage/happiness ratio increases.

I'm feeling hugely guilty. The pede recommended that I use Benadryl on Mallory if he can't sleep on the 15-plus-hour flight to the States (or gets really hyper and out of control). She also suggested we test it on him first, as some kids have a paradoxical reaction and get ramped up. So we just tested it on him.

He's so stoned.

It seems to work great, but he's so clearly sedated and I feel so bad about doing it, with no reason other than scientific curiousity.

My cat, OTOH, has the paradoxical reaction to catnip. I freshened up his "boogie mat" and he's laying on it like a beached whale, eyes dilated. He looks like an opium eater. I keep expecting him to drawl "Bring me another brick, there's a good chap...I seem to have soiled myself."

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I think Owen and I have been snubbed. I called a woman who I consider a pretty good friend to ask if she wanted to go to the park with us. Her husband answered and said they were going to another friend's house to meet and take all the kids to the zoo. He suggested I call her cell. So I called her cell. I told her that I was just calling to see if she and her son wanted to go to the park. She brushed me off with, "I'm going to K's house." No mention of the zoo. No invitation (even though she knows we're zoo members.)

I felt like I was back in high school. Only with a kid.

Raq, at least you know how it affects him. Enjoy his extra long nap or bedtime tonight.

Enjoy the movie vw and best wishes.

I feel so bad about doing it, with no reason other than scientific curiousity.

Well, if he had turned greenish-purple and his head started to spin around, a plane half-way across the Atlantic would have been a bad place to discover this. Not that there's a good one. But closer to a hospital would probably be less bad. I think test-driving medically necessary drugs whenever possible makes perfect sense.

The Create Your Own T-Shirt thingie at the online Disney Store is ADDICTIVE.

Maleficent or Evil Queen?

Maleficent or Evil Queen?

That's a tough one, but the Evil Queen has a lot more class (although Maleficent has the better name).

Well, if he had turned greenish-purple and his head started to spin around, a plane half-way across the Atlantic would have been a bad place to discover this

Yeah, but it would've been a better story.

Not that today was the wisest choice - Easter has started, so no emergency services or anything.

Speaking of, it's freaking SPOOKY outside. It's fully dark, and the church bell is tolling, just one *bong* every few minutes. It's preternaturally quiet, otherwise, except for a sound like a gunshot (firecracker?) every 15 minutes or so. The dual-purpose Christmas/Easter lights (candles with ribbons) on the streetlamps are on, but that's the only light.

Christ's death I guess. Spooky. I should LJ this.

Cash, Mal and I would go to the park with you and Owen anytime. But you probably weren't snubbed; she probably was invited by K and didn't feel she could invite you, and so didn't want to mention the zoo activity.

Mal in the pool today: [link]

one *bong* every few minutes

Sounds like college.