Today I'm slowly doing chores with a heavy dash of watching TV. Second load of laundry is in the dryer. First has actually been hung or folded, and put away! Cooked some kielbasa on the grill for a late lunch. (I'm using that thing a lot more than I thought I would! Love it!). Getting ready to pull out the Total Gym again. I stored it away for the party, and haven't had time/energy to set it back up. And I hope to install the new toilet seat. And a Yankee game should start in 20 minutes. Then, I really need to go through the pile of mail and pay bills.

Yeah, I know. What a party animal.

I have spent 12 hours wrangling a cranky toddler, and am now about to eat some leftovers and watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which I have never actually seen all the way through. There are many other things that should get done tonight, but holy shit, I need a break.

I have never actually seen all the way through

WHAT???

???

Whoa. You are in for a treat. I love that movie even though (especially because?) Bueller is a giant asshole.

You need to watch to the end of the credits, too.

Kate, how is it you already have a toddler?

I made lunch for the next week, did some grocery shopping and laundry, and took my cat sitters out for dinner. There are three people in my apartment complex (including amyth), who step in and take car of my cat when I have to go out of town. It's great to know he's all comfy at home, with people I know and trust looking in on him.

Calli, it is wonderful you have people you can rely on like that.

I am home. G was a complete angel tonight, went to bed when I told him to and didn't complain. That kid keeps me on my toes. I'm never sure what version of him I'm going to get.

I just woke up from a dream in which I was helping a couple of con artists prepare their scam by chewing up old fancy silverware so it could be made into a different kind of old fancy silverware that they would use to establish their identities.

Pretty sure the silverware I was chewing up had a high lead content because my brain sure feels stupider now.

OK, a friend of mine on FB (who is a local friend, but who I don't see a lot in person lately) apparently attended a "cholo" party where they all dressed up and took pictures and so on.

Ugh. That is such a fucking problem. I can still recall vividly an ex of mine complaining bitterly about a mutual friend (white, of course) who used to dress like a cholo because he thought it looked cool. For hispanics in LA, cholos are an issue.

Kate, how is it you already have a toddler?

Isn't it funny? Even seeing her grow up in photos, it seems impossible. Kids just grow. It's amazing.

I have never actually seen all the way through

What, I don't even. My friends and I miss most of the last week of high school seeing it over and over.

I love that movie even though (especially because?) Bueller is a giant asshole.

I feel like realizing that (um, some years later) was kind of a marker of adulthood.