The truth is, I can worry forever and it won't change the result. I need to just realize as much as I'd like to control the universe, I simply don't.

Exactly. Sometimes still hard to go to bed at a reasonable hour, though...

I try to be all zen about those sort of things. But I'm not beyond wishing hard.

I donwanna be a tinfoilhat! But I'm already eyeore, so...

::Pbbbbblllllllllttttttttttt::

Also: I am watching the commercial for the new Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon movie, Four Christmases and it looks like one of the unfunniest movies ever. Thanks be to the movie making fates that I have Australia and Revolutionary Road to look forward to.

How sad is it that I can only find ONE single snapshot of all four of us for Owen's family project next week for school?

We haven't had family photos taken since...well...ever.

Heard a Dar William's song whose opening had a bit too much resonance:

I know change is a bad thing,
it breaks me down into a sorry sad thing,
not some iridescent grateful butterfly.

I resist with defiance,
not the power of a mystic silence.
I will fight the dizzy spiral of goodbye.

And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright.
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright.
later:

It's a sad and a strange thing, but it's time and I am changing
into something good or bad, well that's your guess.
I'm my own sovereign nation, dedicated to a transformation,
marching on with this target on my chest.

It becomes relationshippy, though if you subtract that out, I still Get It Too Well. [link]

I finally got around to picking out and posting a few of my pictures from this summer's trip to Yellowstone: [link]

Loki & Dev sniffed noses without incident again.

Please?

We haven't had family photos taken since...well...ever.

Christmas gifts for the family!

Bon bon, those are GORGEOUS pictures!! And you look so pretty, too!! Awww. Yay!

bonBob, those photos are beeeyootiful. Y'all look so happy and lovely and everything is so purty.

We are in high election angst here at Chez Burrell. But at least I now know we're in good company.

Sometimes performance reports are amusing:

Yakov Smirnoff was in the House.