Thanks, brenda.

We've skipped Alice so far, but S. took Sara to see How to Train Your Dragon today and said it was fantastic.

A very happy birthday to the adorable twins Noah and Grace! I will meet them before they turn 4, dammit!

And I will see K-Bug on Tuesday when I give her a ride to the airport, so can wish her a happy birthday week in person.

It was gorgeous today, and I finally had the energy to get outside and enjoy it. Dogs are the best excuse to get out, they really are.

Tomorrow is brunch with -t and Perkins out in Suisun City!

ETA: I have got to laugh: you know when you've been friends with someone on Facebook for over a year and they just now make a comment on a picture of your dogs (and you guys know me, The Wigglebutts are *always* all over Facebook) asking "Are those your dogs? They're gorgeous"? That's a very good hint that until now you've been hidden in their feed. :) I take no offense, I just find it funny.

Amy! Tomorrow is going to be a reading day! Today was spent fighting with Scrivener some more and then family time. Just didn't want you freaking out or anything.

Scrivener? And no problem, babe. Whenever!

Scrivener is a Mac-specific drafting program that a lot of authors swear by. Word has been pissing me off monumentally, doing this Great Shrinking Document thing when I switch between having the laptop hooked up to my monitor and using it as just a laptop. The Word Doc will literally shrink to one-eighth the original size and the only way for me to expand it back to regular size is to quit Word and open it up again.

So, hence, the Great Scrivener Experiment. It has some remarkable features, but it also has its own quirks that I'm trying to decide whether I can live with or not.

Sounds interesting, Barb! I'm still a PC girl, though. Jennifer Crusie mentioned a program I would love to try, although I can't remember the name of it now, but I think it might be a Mac thing, too.

Happy birthdays to Noah and Grace! I canna believe it.

I saw Alice tonight, too! It was my first modern 3-D, and I was impressed that I could actually see it. Historically, I only look out of one eye at a time, so have always had trouble with that kind of thing....

I was just reading this post on Jezebel about teen musical idols and realizing that I was in a spot that was too young for New Edition and too old for Joey Lawrence and NKOTB. The music of my 5th - 8th(1983-1987 )(is that the time when you like boybands?) was Michael Jackson/Madonna/Cydi Lauper dominated IIRC. Am I crazy?

You're not crazy, but we were definitely into New Edition, and we're the same age. But then, I was in Boston.

I have a horribe feeing that we were not into New Edition because they were black. And we did not know any black people

What about Duran Duran?

Ooh, racist!

I'm trying to think who was on mix tapes I made in 8th grade off the radio, and all I can come up with with "At This Moment" or whatever and "Boom Boom Boom Let's Go Back To My Room." Classy!

Edit: I did loooooove Duran Duran. I feel like that was 85. Edit again! Seven and the Ragged Tiger was 83, and that was defintely the record my cousin and I were obsessed with. [link]