But I do want a LEGO vampire to sit on my desk!

I think I need the swamp creature.

What are people doing this weekend? I need to burn some vacation time, so I am taking a 5 day weekend. Saturday is haircut and errands, Sun-Tuesday is a spa and casino in Reno, and Wednesday is staying home in my inside pants.

DH is away on his motorcycle trip until Sunday night, so I am skating, working, cleaning the house, doing laundry and gardening. Really hard to imagine a more tedious list.

Father's Day (bacon and french toast; going to WF in a couple of minutes to procure bacon), farmer's market, maybe the Natural History museum.

Casper painted a painting for mr. flea for Father's Day, in acrylic on an actual canvas, with a title taken from the last chapter of Trumpet of the Swan. Dillo painted a wooden birdhouse. Yes, we visited Michael's this week.

Errands, maybe Avengers tomorrow, preparing to spend Sunday and Monday nights at the folks', since my mother is traveling for work.

If you visit New Orleans be warned - when one light turns red, the other direction turns green immediately. I mean, IMMEDIATELY. So don't be running those red lights.

Yellow lights in Chicago last three seconds. Until that fully registered, I accidentally ran a fair number of reds.

DC used to have periodic crackdowns on jaywalking; now all traffic is pretty much free-form (I do with they'd get the pedicabs off the sidewalks). Years ago they'd announced an enforcement campaign, with ticketing, and I was walking somewhere with my boss. We got to the corner, the don't walk sign came on and I stopped. He charged across the street and, yes, got a ticket. I waited for the light to change, crossed, then waited for him to get his ticket. Schadenfreude, anyone?

There's a puppy on his back!

This weekend I will be sewing the women's clothes for the show I am working on. I hope. I also have a rash, so if it is too itchy I may not be able to.

Atlanta tickets for jaywalking, mostly downtown. There have been various campaigns to try to make Atlanta a more walkable place. Most point out at some point that Atlanta's most famous author died after being hit in a crosswalk.

Man, I would love to have you out here for the big cosplay con. It's ridiculous fun. Plus, you as Fun-Ghoul would be amazing.

When is it? My brother's in Seattle and has been pestering me to visit.

At Chez Zmayhem we're watching Justice League Unlimited (Batman just sang "Am I Blue"), while Matilda also explores an exciting Dinosaur game on the Sesame Street site. (She's really getting into it and it's got real scientific background. It goes on for quite a bit with many different fossils as she digs up the bones and they are assembled and she learns about them.)

Just made smoothies and now cornbread. Cheap food for the win!

It's gorgeous outside but I'm having a hard time getting Emmett into direct sunlight.