And how much gin did you go through during that time?
Heh. Is that to me? There was much stress and drinking, yes.
It was unbelievably amazing how much easier parenting got after Emmett was 4 1/2. So many of those thesholds had been crossed, most importantly - some basic grasp of causality. The ability to not only communicate but say "this equals that" was huge.
The water/sewer utility out here charges an 80% surcharge on your bill. Sometimes, the surcharge is more than the bill.
Dude, that's just like EBMUD. My last bimonthly bill was like this:
ACTUAL WATER I USED: $1.65
Water Service Charge: $17.30
Seismic Improvement Program Surcharge: $3.20
Wastewater Treatment Charge: $19.03
SF Bay Residential Pollution Prevention: $0.18
City of Oakland Sewer Service: $36.10
TOTAL: $77.46
Does that seem right to you?
Does that seem right to you?
But hey, your water has been seismicly improved.
I should totally be working but I really don't want to. I have to get a slide deck done by end-of-day Friday, do reading and an assignment for my class by next Tuesday, and visit juvie hall Thursday night and Friday morning. I have no time to procrastinate and yet...
Em is doing ok and there are extenuating circumstances to her not being potty trained
HUGELY extenuating. And, speaking COMPLETELY out of my field of expertise, it strikes me as a
good
thing that she's got something to control, you know? Her world has gone a bit topsy-turvy these last few months and rather than be a little doormat about it or get depressed she's all "Yeah? You can't make this change. It's up to me."
Lord
knows
where the child of Joe & Aimee picked up an obstainant streak...
t casual whistling
So tired of applying for jobs.
So tired of children's television.
Trying to work up energy to take Em to stupid Treehouse.
Going mad.
Such a good Daddy
Such a good Husband
Such a good good man. A very good man.
You won't go mad -- Aimee and Em love you so very very much.
That is awesome, and I think I need to give it a try. I don't suppose your mother took any pictures, did she? The resultant cute might kill us all, but I think we'd be willing to take the chance.
Ha! No. I don't think so.
In earworm news...
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth...
share my pain. Share my pain!
Cash and MM's talk of Grendel led me to look up the Wikipedia entry on the comic book, and lo! I did find the following bit of idiocy:
2007 marks the 25th anniversary of Matt Wagner's seminole creation, Grendel (emphasis mine)
You mean like the indians?
juliana, insent.
Nyargh. kicks the timing gods, for she would really like to take smonster up on that offer