Though, due to the grey hair and similar glasses, she was INSISTING that Certain People were SO her Daddy.

What an honor! I wish I was as pretty as Paul.

That picture is just perfect. I mean, REALLY. Like, enlarge and frame and hang in a prominent place PERFECT.

They both looked insanely gleeful every time they came down. Except the time she decided she was ready to do it herself, which was not going to happen. (Very steep slide.)

Emmett was not keen on going and was making all the proto-teen "I'm bored" noises until he started taking her on the slide. Then he had a lot of fun with her.

I don't think she'd say so now, but when Annabel was just beginning to be communicative, she was known to claim pictures of Katie Holmes were her mommy (what with AB looking like Suri Cruise and all) and to point to Stephen Colbert on TV and say "Daddy." Which, given my Colbert crush, led DH to ask if there was something I wasn't telling him...

I've seen the msbelle'n'mac off. What she didn't mention was that up past one was with lisah at an Orioles game in which they won by an exciting one home run in the 10th (bottom of the 10th? Top? Left? Right? Beats the hell out of me.) It was kinda boring in the middle (I missed the first few innings) but the end was fun. And the seats were awesome.

There was brunching today and a lot of angstyby me driving around neighborhoods and a whopping one open house.

It was a lot of fun.

And it is really really hot here.

Bottom of the tenth. Sounds fun! I love Camden Yards.

Kat alerted me to this cool group performing yesterday in downtown LA.

They're Australian, called Strange Fruit. Watch the videos! And the rest of my pictures.

I've discovered the difference between really hot in NYC vs. really hot in Florida is that in Florida, we don't walk anywhere. It's very much a driving culture and we go from air-conditioning to air-conditioning, whereas in NYC, most places are nice and air conditioned, but you're walking everywhere or descending down into the bowels of the subway (which I've decided are somewhere in the vicinity of the Third Circle of Hell).

It's very sweat inducing. I haven't taken this many showers per day since I was in drum corps.

Camden Yards is a lovely stadium. (Light rail is slooooow, though.) Those seats spoiled me for any other though. Maybe 16th row from the field between 3rd and home? (UU) But it's the only game I've ever been to, so.

JZ, one of the reasons I hate my stepmonster is that she crossed a picket line during a grocery strike. But, you know, there are SO many.(And she's not that young anymore.) If I crossed a picket line, my grandfather would haunt me. Wishing I could have hung out with Lisah yesterday. Even though I don't know baseball so I'd be all about the dumb questions.

Whee, I have accomplished office chair assembly, crap old chair removal, floor sweeping, haircut, and lunch. Also drove by the cinema, but the parking lot was so full I can guess that everyone who went to see The Dark Knight and couldn't get tickets opted for staying and watching other movies instead. Mamma Mia can wait 'til a weekday.

so I'd be all about the dumb questions.

It took me at least an inning to figure out which team was the Orioles. Seriously. Both had orange and black!

I suppose that I ought to put on some pants and go to the House of Blues.