And, after all, who gets down on the kitchen floor besides the cats? and their aesthetic appreciation is probably more practical - they're cranky because they can't bat their toys under the stove any more ... mom's a killjoy!

Actually, Leo the Cat was the reason I did it. He would bat his new toys under the stove, fish for it a minute, then look up at me piteously until I swatted it out with a broom. This was annoying. It also occurred to me that there might be important stove parts I shouldn't be whacking with a broom.

I dropped out of high school, I hated it so damn much. However, I am friends with the people I liked from back then (out of 3,200, there were a few). It is nice to learn where they ended up and to see that the best of them still have the snark going. In that way, FB is like passing notes. My ex-BF Walter, who who wrote hysterically funny notes while we were dating sophomore year, now writes hysterically funny FB updates.

That's an awesome response, Scrappy!

Deena, I've never quite figured out why kids' glasses don't just come in twos. Owen bent the shit out of his flex frames last week. Fortunately, the girls were able to bend them back. I should dig up his last pair (since his Rx didn't change) and make sure they're repaired for a back up.

That's a lovely response Scrappy.

In the meantime, I'm good with evil.

I'm still not sitting in the back of a car with you on a road trip. We can flip for who rides in front and who gets to turn green. (And who gets to sing out loud while listening to her walkman.) Besides, you had 2 coaches.

I'm surprised how many of my high school friends have Facebook, considering they're British.

It's all my friends and colleagues ever seem to do. I quite often look around the office to see about twenty PhD students all playing Facebook Scrabble with the people opposite them.

Thank you so much, Steph. I will definitely look for those PearlsIC. My poor MiL has been completely miserable with this infection. And since her immune system is compromised, I want to do everything in our power to help her get better.

I know this must be an incredibly hard process for you, Burrell. It sounds as if you are doing all you can to be supportive of your MiL and your DH.

my british (adult) friends are the ones who forced me onto facebook with the lure of shared photos. it worked.

I'm on a probiotic right now to counteract the effects of the antibiotic I got put on to cure a suspected long-term sinus infection. My doctor got kind of a little scary on the topic, to be honest.