K-Bug's boyfriend just texted me a picture of the outline already on her back!!! Play by play tattooing.

Meanwhile, CJ has grown 2 inches in the last 4 months!!! My little boy!!

the Godsmack logo

I knew the band but not the logo. How pretty! Not at all what I expected.

My pets are on crack. I think the cat is high and it's rubbing off on the dog. It looks and smells like it might rain. Do your cats go crazy when it rains?

Sparky- the hang gliding videos are amazing. I think I would be too scared to try towing. It looks like you often get dragged for a few feet.

In other news... years ago, after all my siblings had moved to California but I was still in Chicago, I made them each a tape off our favorite radio station for Christmas. The tapes were very well received and indeed circulated and copied. Now I'm out in Cali and missing ChiTown and listening to our favorite radio station On The Internet! Truly we are living in the diamond age. If only I had some Old Style and thin-crust extra-sauce pizza cut into squares. Ahh well, back to my machinations of lasagna.

Why did they have to straighten her hair? You can be a princess with curly hair.

I dunno, but I am assuming that it's for the same reason that I walk into a salon with curly hair, get a cut, and the stylist always styles my hair straight without asking if that's what I want. And also why people with straight hair end up with theirs curled.

Hairstyles are like cats: whichever side of the door they are, it's the wrong one.

Also, when her hair got wet later in the movie, it stayed straight.

I'm not having a good day, math-wise. Maybe I should have listened to my mother and gone into biomedical engineering instead. Or maybe I should have ignored everybody and gone into architecture.

omg I just figured out how to use the food processor my sister gave me to grate cheese. The power! I wouldn't even have tried it if the recipe I'm using for lasagna didn't assume I would be using a food processor to make the filling. And then I realized I can make Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish for thanksgiving! (when I tried it with a blender it was a delicious disaster. I had to throw out the half that included shredded wooden spoon.) Maybe the food processor is her way of saying sorry. Maybe I've had too much wine to be using appliances.

Hil is having a bad math day!

This should not crack me up.

Hil (and this applies to all movies) if you analyze it, it will fall apart.

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this is a link to a blog about exploring LA with a three year old -- though a few people might be interested

I'm looking for a face.

Which sounds weird, but I'm developing a character who's refusing to gel physically in my mind's eye, so I figure if I can just find an image to build her around, maybe she'll stop being so amorphous.

What I'm looking for is a woman in her early 30's who looks sort of delicate and feminine yet simultaneously tough and resilient. She doesn't have to be wildly gorgeous, but she needs to be reasonably pretty, and the kind of pretty that ages well. I'm picturing dark hair and light eyes, though I haven't settled on an exact shade for either. She needs to look intelligent and practical--the kind of person who'll keep her head when all about her are losing theirs--but she's also got a strong romantic streak.

Any ideas for an image that might fit the bill--actress, athlete, face in an old painting, etc.?

here is the first person I thought of

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