Also, the promise of "big girl underwear" is pretty tempting, I think

Not to me, unless I'm being promised I can take it off.

She wants to "paint pictures and have snack and run around and paint pictures and..."

Time for me to go eat lunch. I totally read that as "have smack," which wrong.

Yes Cindy, he does have sinus and allergy issues. When he was a toddler he had fluid in his ears, but never had an ear infection. Just fluid messing with his hearing. He grew out of it, but now he is not hearing again. It could be the sinus, or it could be that now he is getting puberty ear wax issues. Brendon has a bunch for a while. It either improved, or his grooming habits improved.

See, you didn't wake up for Julia because a) sick and b) couldn't hear!

She wants to "paint pictures and have snack and run around and paint pictures and..."

Shoot, me too! And I wear big girl underwear, so why am I stuck at work being bored to tears?

Cindy, sick people get a pass on waking up.

This morning, when I went out to dig out the car, it had already been mostly dug out, and had a little something drawn in the snow on the hood: [link] (closeup). The Boy stayed over last night, and he always gets up and leaves before I even get up, and apparently he dug my car out for me this morning.

AWWW! That's seriously adorable. Bless.

Laura, may it just be wax build-up.

ChiKat, get better.

Nerd alert!

Chatty!co-worker brought in this music box set today. We've been cracking jokes about teeny tiny soldiers hidden inside, who lull you into a false sense of safety with the promise of good music, and then at night, they LEAP out of the box and conquer all your lesser CDs.

Tep, you are totally dooooooomed. So cute.

And the music box set? I wouldn't necessarily have thought of tiny soldiers, ifyouknowwhatImean....

Color me doomed.

I'm not sure I have that color in my Crayola box.

Huh. And the Trojan label is so closely allied to Jamaican music to me that it doesn't really have Trojan horse or condom associations. Like how you don't actually think of bugs when you hear "The Beatles."

(Which, growing up, I was not cool enough to appreciate that they were punning on the Beats, and beat music and simultaneously making an homage to Buddy Holly's band The Crickets.)

And the music box set? I wouldn't necessarily have thought of tiny soldiers, ifyouknowwhatImean....

Yeah. I thought of the thing that prevents the invasion of same.

Sits in the corner with juliana and Cindy.

Sits in the corner with juliana and Cindy.

Juliana I'd like to point out that you are now sitting next to two of the most infectious people at b.org.