Dear Loki, fuck you and the outdoor cry.

Went to water the plants, so very careful. He slipped.

Frantic wandering down and up the street, Loki at least responds to name, the shithead. Three doors down, waltzing like nothing. So need to chip him. Now SHUT UP, you've had an adventure!

OMG, Emmett is giving me whiplash and stomach-churn.

Let's play plus-minus with Emmett.

Plus: We're in the playoffs in baseball. Last night we played ten innings (three extra) fought hard, had a tremendous game and were suddenly down four when the game was called for darkness. We had to go back today to finish the bottom of our inning, and we had to score four runs to tie, five to win or we were out of the playoffs. Emmett won it with a walkoff-double.

Minus: You may remember the ordeal of the iSearch which (after much familial typing) he turned in and received an A+ on in his English class for his term. It's a huge chunk of his grade this term. He then proceeded to blow off four assignments and plummet his grade to a C+ when it should have been an easy A after the iSearch. I'm on him every day for four weeks to catch up on the missing assignments. He gets NONE of them done. Today I check School Loop tonight and he's missed ANOTHER assignment. Five missed in English alone. Then he booted a quiz getting 5 out of 14. AND I can see that he also failed to pick up the opportunity for two extra credits. Now he's getting a C- in English.

He's in deep fucking shit. But when I talked to him tonight I didn't say anything. Let him enjoy his walkoff. Because tomorrow he's turning his DS over to me for a lengthy computer game lockdown.

Fuck, I'm pissed. I've talked to him literally every day for the last month about this stuff, and instead of catching up he slacks off worse.

People really like the stairs when they see them. They're a real crowd-pleaser.

They are so gorgeous. I notice (and love) them all over again every time I see them.

Fuck, I'm pissed. I've talked to him literally every day for the last month about this stuff, and instead of catching up he slacks off worse.

It sounds like a pretty standard rebellion pattern (as seen in our nephew at times) control thing. I know you've got the co-parenting complication, but are you able to tell him something along the lines of, "Look, I'm going to talk with you about this once, but it's your career here not mine, and you need to be the one to decide what to do. Here's what you've got coming for your workload. You can choose to do it or not do it, but if you choose the latter, then these are the consequences [list of consequences, including loss of DS]." and then see what happens? It's worked for my sis-in-law.

Ugh. Jonah Hex doesn't look like the comics. I know Jezebel is all Megan Fox rah rah rah, but I don't get her inherent value onscreen, and she really doesn't look like she's doing much for this movie.

I think the thing to do with the Scrabble flooring would be to make sure none of it spells anything in any direction, except for in one spot. Where there should be a string of obscenities.

Some people I knew had a coffee table that was a Scrabble game under glass that spelled out the names of pretty much the whole neighborhood social circle. Was pretty cool, and I could totally picture a Buffista version.

Hey, if anyone has an interest in tiebreaking a Supernatural S4 quote deathmatch, we're stalled in round 2 here: ita "Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?" Jun 7, 2010 3:14:25 pm PDT. An odd number of voters would be highly appreciated, especially if you have the correct refined sense of humour.

Replies to things you all were talking about hours ago! (yay wacky timezones)

Scary underwater creatures? No thank you. I like swimming in completely ignorant bliss. My favorite place to swim is definitely the ocean; I love the waves.

I also don't particularly love baths, but I would love to take one one of these days just because I can't. Our shower is... well, it's basically a showerhead on the bathroom wall with a drain in the floor. I'd kill for a bathtub - at the very least just to keep the water from getting EVERYWHERE.

I also fully support sci-fi names for children, but I guess there's a fine line between awesome and just ridiculous when it comes to names, I think. But in all honesty, most of the names I really like for potential future children are names I heard on TV, and I always wonder that if I were to name a kid one of these things, would I own up to having gotten it from a TV show?

ALSO, The Glee finale is downloading slower than molasses and I am not alright with this. I like to pretend I'm at least decently in the loop, and this will not be possible if it in fact takes 23 hours to download!

especially if you have the correct refined sense of humour.

By which we mean garrison. (Huh, Firefox Britpicks. I didn't notice the extra u until it did.)

I think the thing to do with the Scrabble flooring would be to make sure none of it spells anything in any direction, except for in one spot. Where there should be a string of obscenities.

Strega can be my wingman design my Scrabble floor anytime.