Morning all.

Joe is spending the day after his birthday at home with sick Emeline. I was holding her and singing to her last night and he felt her head and she was a bit warm. A poke in the ear and 4 beeps later, it was confirmed. 100.3 degree fever. We gave her some Tylenol Nighttime and she zoned out in the middle of dinner. Oddly, she had enough energy for cake. So, this morning, poke and beeps and sure enough, more fever. I feel horrid cause today was supposed to be her first day of preschool. But, she's also happier at home in her fleece jammies and having juice and watching "Wow Wow Wubzy" with Daddy than she would be at school. It's days like this when I wish I were a SAHM.

Poor Bubba.

But, in true dictatorial fashion, I left a fairly long list of chores for Joe to accomplish. Birthday's over, baby! Chores!

nudge nudge nudge

nudge

t looks around

::grabs pillows, down comforter, and remote::

::snuggles up in big comfy chair and waits for friends while watching trashy daytime court shows::

I am SAHM today, but no jammies and fun. It is forcing Bobby to do his damn work properly time. He had 4 projects to do over break. A diorama and handout for language, a research paper for science, redoing his logbook for engineering because he lost it. He did the handout because it was read a passage and bubble in the answer. His diorama is pathetic. He still hasn't done the log book. When I went to bed last night he was completing his paper on fuels and his dad proofread it. Somehow he missed 2 of my favorite sentences.

Hydrogen: may be used as gas someday.

Biodiesel can be made from weed.

I wrote a comment in red after every paragraph on what needed to be fixed. 2 paragraphs are marked as good. Ugh!

Biodiesel can be made from weed.

Hmmm, this might solve the whole dependency on foreign oil issue.

He didn't mention any of the other things it could be made from, noooooooo, it mentioned hemp as a source and that was all it took. Mom may end up a stoner before we get both boys through high school.

Fay, Ms. Havisham reviewed it on our manga review blog a while back. Review can be found here.

Short version, too pedestrian...

Hey CaBil, how are you and Ms. H doing?

Yeah, Ms H nails it. Well, you know, other than how I found the slashiness of Jareth one of the better things about the book. (Dude. He's played by David Bowie. Of course one would expect him to flirt with boys as well as girls.)

What was particularly odd, though, was the little snippet of The Dark Crystal manga included at the end of the volume, as a sneak peak type affair. Complete with cracktastic Business!Skeksis giving a presentation to the board.

nudge nudge nudge

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
Say no more!

Hey Frank! Did you know that Scott (head brewer dude) was fired from Salem BW on Xmas Eve?