Ship her out on the next spaceship that comes through, she's ready.

Nooo totally not ready for that.

Or the fact that she's getting a retainer in a couple weeks. Remember how ugly our retainers were? This one is insane - aqua, with sparkles. Truly we live in the future.

Or the other fact that she seems to have recorded great chunks of my dad's bday dinner last week, on my old phone that's been repurposed for games and photos. While pretending to play a game. My child is sneakeh. And we have had a talk.

Eta: sara, I was just thinking the other day how I missed hearing bannister updates from you. So, thanks!

Hehehe. I have a bunch of other projects I'd like to DIY/buy (builtins for the one bedroom*, new/replacement furniture in the LR) but I'm feeling financially pinched. But I have all the spendy stuff for the banister in hand (sanding stuff) so I'm basically left with that. And pulling wires and old phone lines. By god, I will see progress.

* I'm also faced with a problem like Jesse's here. I have damaged plaster in there and I don't even know where to start. My neighbor Erik insists it is easy, but I think his version of easy and mine differ. He used to flip houses, including a couple in this neighborhood.

Yeah, the This Old House explanation of how to fix plaster walls (when the plaster is pulling apart from the lath) says easy/intermediate, but immediately, you need a masonry bit for your drill. Not that I'm unwilling to buy stuff, but that already seems like more than I'd be willing to do.

I think I have a masonry bit. I don't know that I could lay my hands on it, but I think there's one in the shed somewhere from some previous project.

I've had a crack in the ceiling in my living room for, I don't remember how long, since we had that earthquake with the epicenter only a couple of miles form here. Five years? I kind of like how it looks, so I'm thinking I'd like to fix it using something like that technique that fills cracks in vases with gold and lacquers over. Only not with gold. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem to be growing...

See, Erik starts with 'start sanding to see what chunks fall off and you'll need to replace.' I'll have to go look at TOH, masonry bits, what? But then, our walls aren't true lath and plaster, from my understanding. There's plaster, and there's lath, but I'm told they aren't the traditional p&l.

Dang, the announcers were just saying how this game didn't have offense to watch. Oops.

Oh, I was thinking the product they mention, Big Wally's Plaster Magic, might be the thing you need, more than the whole how-to. But I don't have any plaster repair experience, just drywall.

Yeah, maybe. I'll see what the hardware store people think tomorrow.

All this ice cream talk forced me to stop on the way home and buy Americone Dream.

I believe that is the recommended treatment for Ice Cream Deficiency.