Teppy - so excited that you get to have a house free of guest pets! I bet your homepets are happy too.

in Provo right now! Hi, connie! What a beautiful town! Surrounded by mountains. Lots of kids and very white

Hi, Stephanie! How kind are the eyes of strangers, but yes, the mountains are glorious, and they've still got snow on them--probably getting more this week. And yes, the people are as white as the snow.

Wow - I totally thought that you'd end up with Petpocalypse, Tep! Delighted to hear that it's all panned out okay after all!

Also, I'm sure it won't be dissipating before getting to the Wisconsin border

Nope we are expecting Strong Storms.... wonder how thats gonna affect my "date" tomorrow

Yikes. 4 dead as tornado hits Boy Scout camp in Iowa: [link]

Steph, you're probably asleep but I just wanted to say that since I began using the Mirena I've noticed more painful cramping at ovulation than at my "period."

There are thirty openings at the kindergarten level for the best schools. There are only going to be five or six openings at those schools at the first grade level, because the kindergarten kids move up and the only slots open are from kids who move away.

Not to stress you out, but just something to factor in.

Well the school that had 80 lottery openings and 1600 applicants for kinder? Basically told me my lottery placement is for shit, so I can keep calling and they'll just keep telling me no. Next year I'll try again and yes, Franny's chances will be worse but there's nothing I can do about that. But the plus side is that many of the interesting looking magnets are 1-5 not K-5, so we might have better luck in a different school.

The other local school lotteries are for "extra" spaces after the neighborhood students fill the district, so while they have 60 or 80 spaces available kindergarten, for permit kids like Franny, they have something between none and maybe 10. One school told me they had none last year, another told me they had two. So I'm not counting on getting in. But my MiL wants to move closer to us anyway so we may have her help getting Franny in the next year.

Hrm.

Just got an email from one of the kings I met in Vancouver in October. Sweetie from Houston, who granted I haven't talked to since then really. All "ack, last minute housing fell through for this conference in Seattle, any chance my coworker and I can crash on your floor Friday night??" and I was all set to be like "Of course!" when I noticed it wasn't for her JOB (which is for Planned Parenthood) but for...Landmark. Um, ew? (Keep in mind she's like, 23, so the last minute and crashing on floor is so not as ridic as it would be in a 30 year old)

I guess just for Friday night it's fine anyway, they'll be up and out early, right? Landmark makes them go examine themselves early, right?

I was so much more excited when I thought they'd be in my town to Do Good Works...

In completely separate news, I was at Target trying on clothes, and ended up trying on and then buying a MATERNITY top. Because it looked exactly like all the other shit they were selling (empire waist and all), except it was in a pretty color (bright green). (this,only it looks better on me, because it makes me look cleavagey, and um, not pregnant) And it's my perfect green color)

What is Landmark?

Yeah, what Burrell said.