OMG otters! So cute.

Hmm, I've spent the day reading Offbeat Mama, getting my new stepmom muscles in shape for when the boy comes in two weeks!

DH attacked the front hedges of planty death today, and also whacked away at the crumbling masonry on our front porch. There are, apparently, concrete steps under there. Huh.

I have been very lazy, but I plan on being more worky tomorrow. Will clean the office, and the foyer, and this week, I will attack the boy's bedroom. I would like to weed out some of the toys in there before he gets here, and just clean it up nicely and organize.

I know it will be a disaster within a day, but it's best to start off neatly.

I also vote Farscape. In part because I got the box for xmas and want to get into it.

I vote anything other than Hannah (Fucking) Montana. If I hear the theme song one more time today, I will cry.

I vote anything other than Hannah (Fucking) Montana.

For those of you who care about such critical distinctions, Hannah Montana is unendurable crap to watch and iCarly is mildly diverting. (It's no Ned's Declassified, though.)

Our heat combating plan today was to go to the ice rink. Which worked. It's deliciously cool in there. I need lessons for ice skating though because I want to be better than I am.

We had a wild thunderstorm here that resulted in my poor father having to drive through water up to the bumper, and everything including their living room rug getting soaked while we were out. And now it's cool and nice out! Of course it's still hot in my apartment.

Had the best sleep today, the kind where you wake up feeling delicious and just stretching. With the added bonus of kitty toes and nose and belly fur around my feet.

Except somewhere in the middle of it I had a fit of sleep paralysis. Anyone ever had that? Where your brain wakes up and your body's still asleep and you hallucinate that something is on the bed with you? It's happened at least three times in the past decade. One time I even hallucinated that someone was in the house downstairs. But usually it's a ghost cat running laps around the bed, making it shake and vibrate. Freaks me right the fuck out.

I will back David on that one. iCarly is much more tolerable.

Gosh, Julie bird, that sounds scary. the weirdest thing I ever had happen during sleep was the period of about 2 years where I used to sleep-eat, and wake up cvered in crackers or oreos.

I have watched precisely one Hannah Mntana, although somehow I have seen it several times. It is the one where her young male friend finds out that Hannah is Miley (after having a crush on Hannah.

I kinda liked the girl who played the female friend, but everyone else was god-awful.

Is iCarly the one with the girl from School of Rock. She was pretty good in that, so I can see that would be more engaging.