Bonny, I wish you lived locally so I could hire you to work with Kaylee. She's gotten so toy possessive and is very territorial. I'm working with her on it, but I know you would make it so much easier.

Erica: appeal-ma

Shir, stay safe.

Shir, calm~ma and safety~ma for you.

Anne, calm~ma to you. I hope it isn't as bad as you're anticipating it to be.

erika, tons of appeal~ma.

I just bought tickets to see Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, as well as a local author I am unfamiliar with tomorrow night! Neil Gaiman is going to be reading from his new book that isn't coming out until June! I may just be a little bit excited.

I just bought tickets to see Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, as well as a local author I am unfamiliar with tomorrow night! Neil Gaiman is going to be reading from his new book that isn't coming out until June! I may just be a little bit excited.

Cool! You'll have to tell us all about it!

Teppy, I will. Victor and thessaly are going as well, and I wouldn't be very surprised if Victor ended up writing something about it. Time to figure out if my Theatre is Evil t-shirt is clean.

Tea: I found the t-shirt and it is now in the washing machine. That is one way to get me to do the ton of laundry that I've been ignoring. Tonight we're going out for dinner because we have a Living Social deal that is going to expire soon. I'm really liking how this day is turning out so far.

I am cracking up at my mom. She texted me because she saw me post on FB that it's Tim's birthday. She said "I just saw your post about Tim's birthday -- I forgot but will put a card in the mail today. Remind me next year!"

And I texted back and said "Put it on your calendar, slacker!"

Her reply -- hand to god -- was "What's the date?"

O_o

~ma to erika and Anne (and frankly, to all of you who needed ~ma and brackets in the past few days, while I skipped to update).

Shir,

good grief. hang in there. You have buffistas with you across land and sea.

Shir, how are you?

{Shir} While I've only had to run to shelters for tornadoes, I do know the frustration of having my government be lethally stupid. May saner heads prevail.

I hope your appeal is successful, Erika. I am personally weary of discussing my finances with all and sundry.

Remind me to clean more than once a year, okay? I've been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. There's an appraiser coming this afternoon as part of the hugely annoying and time-consuming process of not having my house repossessed for a relatively small 10-year second mortgage that came due at the worst possible time. I'm trying to get a settlement, but times are so strange that a person like me, with a fair amount of equity, can't get a loan renegotiated, but someone upside down by $100,000 can. I think I actually want my house to appraise for less than it's actual value, so maybe its being infested with creatures made of dog fur is a plus. I'm living in looking-glass land.