Em looks beautiful with her little wee-girl bob. She of course looks beautiful anyway, but it just makes her painfully over-the-top adorable.
Also, I have decided that the Miracleborns are not in fact leaving California. It's true that on Tuesday they will be making a long drive to a vaguely Michigan-shaped location, but they will in fact be remaining right exactly here in California, just in an inconvenient, vaguely Michigan-shaped suburb of LA.
THEY WILL SO. DO NOT CONTRADICT ME.
I drove past the melty freeway this morning and again this afternoon -- as it happened, it was all very easy driving today as everyone was avoiding all the freeways like the plague. But it looks like it might possibly be a hair short of totally disastrous; the worst effect that I saw was that the first two exits on the detour route, usually pretty sedate roads (for localistas: Emeryville and Ashby), were choked with miserable cranky Oakland people looking to double back toward home. Also, there was
something
open on the connector from 80 West to 580/880/980 headed toward downtown Oakland and the airport, but everyone was squeezing through in single file and it was a parking lot.
The melted freeway section is clearly visible from the still-open parts of the interchange, and it's very surreal. Large and high and completely black, tons of concrete and steel folded and crumpled like so much construction paper. Your eyes see it and your brain registers it, but it's still fairly incomprehensible.
Also, Fay is stunningly beautiful and a peacock-feather tattoo, while it will undoubtedly be lovely, can never be more than one of her very lesser beauties.
THEY WILL SO. DO NOT CONTRADICT ME.
No contradiction here.
She was ADORABLE at DLand. She loved the rides and I thought that seeing the characters would go the way Santa did this year (not well. lots of screaming tears.) But she just ran up to Mickey and threw her arms around him and she crawled up next to Prince Philip just as sly as you please, flashing those big blues and smiling coyly. We could barely get her away from Jasmine and only did once she saw "Si-rella! Si-rella!" I was gonna buy her a princess dress, but at $60 a pop, I can make one.
We left fairly early as neither Em nor Baby A had had a meltdown yet and it was decided better to end the day on a positive note.
We might not actually leave until Wednesday now - some mishaps in shipping - and it turns out that for whatever reason, my uncle who is the executor of my grandparent's will who had previously said that it was ok with him if we moved in Gram's house as long as it was fine with the rest of the kids has since changed his mind. There might be a solution which entails my parents taking the house as their 25% of the estate and renting to us for a brief time, but we don't know yet. Still up in the air.
All very crazy making.
He clearly wants you to stay in LA.
Switch the kitty. [link]
The back door got left open somehow last night. I went out to have a cigarette and noticed Switch running off the back porch and Elliot laying in the drive. We herded Elliot in, found Ollie in the front yard and got him inside and then spent the next hour and a half chasing Switch all over the backyard. We almost had him a couple of times and he let his displeasure and reluctance to be caught by biting, scratching, and hissing. He's been gone for almost 24 hours and no one has seen him.
I'm trying very hard not to lose my shit.
Wow. That sucks. But remain calm. He may be hiding out someplace really close by -- cats are sneaky that way.
Does he have a favorite treat?
Perhaps if you just hang out on the back stoop and have that treat with you, you can lure him to you.
Does he have a favorite treat?
Human flesh, it seems. Other than that, no.
Perhaps if you just hang out on the back stoop and have that treat with you, you can lure him to you.
I've been doing that, too. Every time I reach for him, he bolts.
Then, do that - when he approaches, you retreat. Can you secure the other animals so that they won't run out the back door if you leave it open?
Then you can do the lure, approach, retreat thing until you get him into the house.
Good call, Sumi. I'll try that.
