I had Gran and Obaachan and Ojiichan.

However, Gran was the only one I had any interactions with - my mother's parents were in Japan and I didn't actually meet my Obaachan 'til I was in high school.

I never met either of my grandfathers. So I think of my father's father as Grandfather. (Plus, they are that sort of family, you know?)

Thanks for all the birthday well wishes.

Also my performance review went really well. Just some minor things that I thought. One is I need to be more confident and act more confident about my abilities. I think this review really boosted them. Plus I stated that I would love to have an other long term project to work on so my boss is going to see what he can do to get me involved in a big project coming up. Plus he said he could see me growing with the company.

My grandparents were Grandma Edith and Grandpa Edgar (first names) and Grandpa Jess and Grandma Alma Lee , I don't know why we started calling her with both names. My great grandmother was Grandma Maude and my step great grandma was Miss Mabel.

OMG, this has to be one of the most depressing photos ever: [link]

I had a Grandma on the one side. On the other, Gammer and Gaffer. The Great-Grands I knew were Grandma Susan (whose real name was Recha; Susan was her idea of a glamorous American movie-star name), and SA (real name: Phyllis. No idea why. And, yes, our SA makes me go "huh".)

To the nephew, my parents are Baba (he was hoping for Papa, but the early pronunciation error stuck) and $firstname (because she declined to be any grandma-nickname).

So, on one side, your grandparents were hobbits?

Do you think he could shoot the wings off, too? [link]

Just slightly taller.

I am so over Megan Fox. Ew.

Oh, god, me too. Why is she everywhere?

I read about some really brain dead interviews she gave about sleeping only with women who hadn't slept with men because men were icky.

But she sleeps with men too, notably Brian Austin Green which I try very hard not to hold against him.

And she has that nasty tattoo which she's going to expand into an entire sleeve. I'm not against tattoos, but I think she's doing it wrong, and she's going to piss off the makeup crew on every movie she does from there on in.

I'm over her, but I know too much.