And in fact, the Scary Godmother stationary you used to send him those cool ghoulish pop up books when he was a wee kidling is still up on the fridge.

Awww! I still have a stash of that stationary tucked away. Has Emmett seen the animated Scary Godmother specials? I've only seen the first one.

Kat, do you have My Friends? Same author as Everybody Poops.

Nope! It's so cute though. It will have to be wishlisted until I have $ again. maybe post tax return and house move.

My bud was the publisher for Everybody Poops.

Oh, and the test said I could take 18 5-year-olds, but I could totally take more.

The week of 60 below? When they didn't cancel public school until three days in or so, because the diesel engines finally stopped running? Not that I remember?

January 1989, when for two weeks it never got above -50. And I think it got down to -70something. It was 45 degrees inside my apartment (SAC, designed for California, with two entrances but only one arctic entry, and no weatherstripping). Brr. Then the next year, we had record snowfall. Nope, not memorable at all, juliana.

Twisted balloon dresses. People are so delightfully odd and cool.

I just had a freaking brilliant idea, and Mr. Jane thinks it's good too, and I need to talk to Allyson. Right. Now.

However, that's the excitement talking, so I will email later.

Actually, it's fairly stupid that I didn't think of it days ago.

I use cilantro in guacamole, and chili, and black bean soup, and sometimes on top of noodles with peanut sauce, and a zillion other places that I can't think of right now. One thing to remember wiith things like soups and chili is that it works best to put it in at the end -- it gets weird if you cook it for a long time.

I never cook with cilantro, I just gratefully eat whatever I buy that it's in -- I really should look into adding it into my shamefully slim cooking repertoire, in order to better make delicious things at home....

18 five-year-olds. Largely because my moral center becomes flexible if somebody attacks me first.