So Matilda started daycare this week. So far, so good. Mostly she seems to think that if she closes her eyes Mommy will be there when she opens them. Hence the three hour naps at daycare. Which means a very alert and lively child at 1am.

She's been unendurably cute in the mornings. All smiles and engaged. You know what she is? She's charming. She's a charming baby.

JZ's employer fucked up her paycheck so she didn't get paid today like she was supposed to.

As someone who worked in HR, I can only emphasize that constant contact with payroll and benefits during your medical and/or maternity leaves is just the beginning of trying to keep your money coming to you in a timely fashion. There are so many places where it can go wrong that it needs constant cat-herding.

Looks like I'm going to lose my beautiful temp office in a couple weeks. If I'm still on this job in a couple weeks. I hope so. It's about as good a temp job as you can get. They certainly have need, but there's poor coordination between the new home office that took over and the locals so I expect there to be a bottleneck which would leave me without things to do.

Happy, happy Olivia Day! Birthday kisses for the girl and birth-day hugs for her lovely mommy.

Must try to catch up in here at some point today.

Here is a very topical Two Lumps comic - [link] - as Harvey has [edited for spoilers] taken to doing something similar.

Well, I do wander around pantsless, yes.

As do I. I've been living alone for seven years, and I still feel slightly naughty every time.

I am always cold so tend to wander around fully clothed, although if changing or getting out of an evening bath, I have been known to dance naked around the living room in a balletic or vogue-ish way for the amusement of the DH.

I can say that I have, in all seriousness, vacuumed naked.

Ok - someone fact check me on this: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't actually do anything to end actual slavery, right?

shakes head at classmates

How dare you say that Aimee! He ran the Underground Railroad, invented the peanut and wrote the Emancipation Proclaimation!

Again with the time travel. It seems to be a lot more widespread than I thought.

Well, I do wander around pantsless, yes.

I'm having a hell of a time keeping clothes on Owen at the moment. He loves to strip down and take his diaper off. I've tried convincing him that it's too cold but he just runs around yelling, "NAKED!" and laughing hysterically.