5 was my son's least favorite.

Crazy kid

So will your mother help them clean instead, msbelle?

This weekend I have a sleepover, running my family down to Carson, teaching, another birthday party, running my family back from Carson, teaching, going down to Carson myself to watch tennis.

I don't want to do any of it.

Wait til you get, em, Jilli.

flails some more

Did I mention how cool AND unnerving it is to get an email with the phrase "I'll work up some story proposals and get back to you" from a producer-type? It is. Very much so.

I'm going to be horribly jealous. And then write to GCS to ask what to do about it.

Bah. You'll be too busy with your fabulous conquering of the media world to be jealous. Besides, my advice would probably be "We should talk about this in person. Come visit me!"

Ah, I see the tag and everything makes more sense.

Exactly

good review!

ok friday fun

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that the link to my library's summer reading blog. The first program listed www videos on the internet links to the playlist I used. Question: which video did the kids find dull, but I said - too bad, I find it soothing.

I can give hints if you don't want to go through 45/50 minutes of video.

Will you wear cherry pjs to the sleepover, ita?

I hope mac doesn't freak too much at the new cast.

paperdol, what a great review!

This weekend? I will be cleaning the house again after we have undone everything for the exterminator (everything from the kitchen is now in the breakfast nook or the laundry room). Noah has a sleepover at Lori's place. I need to visit Grace.

I'm so tired I can't focus. I should spend this weekend asleep, but I doubt I will.

Scary tea shop and sweet tea and literary cocktails - Readerville has been linksalicious this afternoon.

Love that second link (and the third), but this

It's a refreshing combination of sweet and cold, sure, but how does something that's simply tasty become the unofficial beverage for an entire region? Well, there's this: The South reveres its traditions, and sweet tea is one of them. Dixie has had some embarrassments in its time: There's that whole Civil War thing, the whole Judge Roy Moore thing, that whole Naples, Fla., Swamp Buggy Queen thing, to name a few. Getting your nose rubbed in your own traditions too many times makes you cling to those that aren't, well, illegal. And you revere them as much because they have proven resistant to change as you do for their particular qualities.

I want to marry and have lots of traditional, embarassed children with it.

Timelies all!

My folks are here, so that's what's happening this weekend.

Oh, as soon as I saw the sweet tea article I KNEW that I had to post it here -- didn't we just have a sweet tea conversation?