For the record, if you friend your 16 year old mentee on fb, you get: painful chatspeak, boyfriends, girlfriends, all in painful chatspeak, more than you wanted to know. OMG, so need to have a talk with that girl. OTOH, a fair number of her posts are school/work internship related, so I am pleased she geeks out over visiting city court as a part of her gov't class and goes alll caps over her research job getting some cool new findings.

In painful chatspeak, but still.

My dad never tells me shit. My cousin is the one who has to keep me up to date. At one point she was the on to tell me both grandparents an 2 uncles died each within 3 months of each other. She now opens phone conversations with "Nobody died."

Yeeesh, I've only ever had a person point a gun at me once and that was plenty. Though I did also once pull into a gas station in the middle of a robbery. That was part of My Very Freaky Christmas in LA.

brenda, your roasted veggies sounds num. I need to do that for JZ and me.

Gah, ita. Gah for the robbery and gah for the family keeping it from you. I'm glad your dad came out of it okay (except the possessions and probably a bit of stress).

Congrats on getting that much closer to done, sara.

I spent most of today at Annie's Annuals fall sale. [link] Did *not* win the raffle so I spent two gift certificates on the most plants I've ever bought there. I'm normally an edibles gardeners so it was weird for me to buy mostly flowers. I hope to show my mom that my gardens are *not* ugly. Haul today included a load of Scabiosas, Eschscholzias, Fragaria vesca, peas, and others.

I'm sunburned (in the Bay Area, go figure) and tired from hours of standing and walking on bum knees. Ran 2 more errands then drove back to my cousin's in The Richmond. Too tired to walk around the Haight or anything. Tomorrow is HSB.

AhahahaHAH! Got a message from my girl's boyfriend, apologizing for being something (?) on fb. Pretty much sure he's aghast at an old person seeing him teasing his girl. Anyway, I just see it as my reach on these youths extending. And getting them to censor themselves a bit online. Heheh.

Still cracks me up something awful!

I'm evil. I'm schooling my T's friend in online behavior. Specifically, her boy. Heheheh.

Aw, it was a Beatles ,Dear Prudence reference. Love that boy!

And now we've got a broken bedroom window.

For future reference: teenager, plus toddler plus Dad who concedes to requests for "Just one more!" game of chase equals broken window.

Oh, it's so important to stop before that "just one more." You can feel the chaos energy reaching its maximum expression before it happens.

Oooh, I've been there, and they weren't my kids. Sorry.

Can I just reiterate how HILARIOUS it is to be texting (via fb) with my girl's boy who I've never met and being all mommy/big sister? Cracks me up. Like really LOL.

My god, Tivo found me 1987 A Different World. While Marisa Tomei and Lisa Bonet were still on it, before Dwayne Wayne became cool. Whither Dawnn Lewis?