Oh dear meara, fire AND flooding? Glad the house is finally behaving itself.

Yay for flirting, msbelle.

And in hair news, {warning: lice font} I made sure everyone was treated on Tues with the alcohol-based lotion, and it seems to have killed all the big guys, as promised. But it ain't over 'til all those pesky little nits are gone. Combed out everyone's hair with a GOOD nit comb this time AND a silicone product as per Plei's rec. OMG my advice if you ever deal with this crap is buy the good comb! It works so much better OMG! Also, wow that is nasty to think about having all those little nits on my head. Cree.Pee. And to make things seem hopeless, I found out yesterday that there was an outbreak in the other 3rd grade class just last week. And a friend of mine said she's been combing out her daughter's hair with the nit comb several times a week, and she says new lice appear on a regular basis. Ugh! So that means I should be checking regularly too, right?

How in the hell did I escape having lice all my childhood? It seems impossible.

Oh, good god. I wake up in the middle of the night to discover my alarm clock is frozen and won't reboot.

Now I gotta drag a tablet into bed and have that wake me up. That coulda been close. Insomnia came in useful there.

It's been a helluva year for lice, all over the country, if my anecdata is to be believed. Prior to this year I don't recall anybody I know dealing with lice (aside from my half-sister with waist-length hair some 15 years ago), and this year it's been rampaging through the kids' old school in GA and the new school here.

but tommy, his listenership has been UP this whole week.

I have to believe that people tuning in now who didn't listen to him before are just gawkers, tuning in for the fun of it, not actually becoming regular listeners. His audience probably increases briefly every time he's in the news.

I have to believe that, otherwise I'm afraid.

Slept in (for me=6:30) and had to deal with mopping the kitchen floor when somehow, Pumpkin exploded the waterdish all over it. And her. She's a damp kitty. I don't even know. It's too early for this.

So I'm camped outside security at SFO, because they don't open until 0430. I'm already convinced I over packed.

And I have a head cold, which came on between 6 & 8 pm last night. Bah.

Vonnie, I'm so glad you're okay, I was worried when I saw the headlines!

Flying through Chicago to Boston to Madrid, argh.

In other school news, they are re-opening the old school that's just a few blocks from where we live. Next year it will house a 3-6 gifted school, and a K neighborhood school, but if they get 10 kids interested, they will do 1st grade too. So if I get Casper into gifted (which requires testing but I think she qualified with her scores in GA) and they add 1st grade, both kids could go to the school that's actually in our neighborhood. And given the boundary lines and the grassroots nature of the parent movement to open it, there's a good chance the culture will be much more our style than the current school (which is good, but not very hippie.)

Have a lovely holiday Consuela!

First, I don't believe anything about RL's ratings after seeing a few articles debunking the 20 million listeners claims.

Second, according to my twitter feed, there are a few people out there listening for advertisers - to know who to write letters to.

So if there is an increase, I am not sure it would be for the reasons any advertiser would want.

Have a great trip, Consuela!