Happy Birthday Epic! Hope it is the bestest.

Also my nephew is 29 today. Smart kid. I'll have to see if his dad has a number for him.

Congrats to Daniel and Andi. Isn't it grand to have so many special dates already?

June, we shall not speak of it again. Except the Heat won! Whee! Miami parades are fun. (but a bit warm)

Happy Birthday, Epic!

Well, it hasn't actively sucked. Stephen finally has a job, after all. Why is yours so sucky, babe?

It's not sucktastic like amych's, although money/house/car stuff is going on here too, it pre-dates June. It's more of a low-level constant grinding suckage—fingernails running down a blackboard. Mostly, we're just too busy, and my life is no longer my own (now with even less my own).

Having one car, and three kids in Little League, at the end of the school year, in prime birthday time isn't helping the blisters on my feet from these damned diamond shoes. The first grade teacher has been scheduling a parents-please-attend type activity, at least once a week (and often twice) for the past month or month and a half. Meanwhile, the fourth graders leave our school at the end of this year, so there are a lot of events for them.

Off the top of my head, I can name seven kids in Julia's class who have older siblings in Ben's class (there may be more), so it's not like I'm the only parent who is being run ragged. We just look at each other and sigh. I bless the kindergarten teacher, each day.

Also, when it hasn't been raining, it's been ninety something degrees. I just don't trust that June. She comes on all sweetness and light, but don't trust her.

Happy birthday Epic!

Just like yo' mama!

She has gotten demonstrably more pregnant.

Ninja Possum Infilatration - sounds like it should have been the fourth Butthole Surfers album.

It's more of a low-level constant grinding suckage—fingernails running down a blackboard.

I hear you. We only have two cars if you count my father-in-law's kind of unreliable boat, and this week the boys have conflicting games/practices all week. Like, on the same night, at the same time, in two different places. The dog has fleas for the first time ever, and while I am ecstatic that Stephen's working (and it's going really well so far) it means I'm home with Sara alone all day and trying to a) do freelance work, b) write the book that's due August 15, c) keep up with the laundry/dishes (no dishwasher)/dog hair, and d) not lose my mind. I feel lucky there haven't been many school events as the year winds down.

::runs away to bake Emergency Cake for Cindy::

Is the Ninja Possum Infiltration led by the one from CT that spooked Trudy?

Vinegar will also kill weeds without leaving a toxic mess in your yard

Really? Plain white vinegar? You just pour it on the weeds or is there a special procedure? (Is there anything vinegar can't do?!)

so it's not like I'm the only parent who is being run ragged

I don't know whether I celebrate the kids getting out or school or going back to school more. Both situations involve being run ragged. I think in school is worse but that could be because we don't do much in summer.

ram jack

And the Heat finished off the series by winning 4 straight after losing 2 to Dallas! Whee! I know I am the only one excited by this. So, inconclusion, let's make out.

Is the Ninja Possum Infiltration led by the one from CT that spooked Trudy?

I was thinking that it was a descendant of the great OMGWTF Possum In My Bed incident (ca. 2000) and the earlier What's That Rotting Carcass Smell Coming From The Crawl Space dead possum incident of 1995, but if you're right, it's a wider conspiracy than I ever suspected.

People, don't trust the marsupials. I know they're quirky and fascinating in evolutionary terms, but they're organized, and they're coming for you.