just watch the one with Chrissie Hynde a few times.

I'd forgotten about that!!!

eta that is so funny for so many reasons

Bev and David - how are/were your teens with afternoon naps?

Emmett is vocally anti-nap - because it makes him very groggy. HOWEVER, he does take naps in the car when I drive him back from tournaments and they are restorative to him. But only car naps.

Seriously, though, he needs like 10+ hours of sleep a night to function. He often goes to bed by 9 or 9:30.

I suspect Mac's body is going to grow a lot and you're going to have to shovel food down his maw at an alarming rate.

Emmett's already up to a size 13 shoe.

Size 13??? Good grief.

I am so mad at myself. I'm on a three day trip to Iowa....and managed to be an idiot early this morning and leave my computer sitting at home. Not sure how much I'm going to be able to accomplish! Ugh.

Jesse, that is an awesome dress.

So I've been vaguely jangly all day because last night we heard a bad wreck on our street.

We live in the foothills, which means we live on a sloping hill. Last night at 9:30, I heard a motorcycle engine rev, going down our little community/suburban street. Then I heard a pause, where there was no engine noise. Then two thuds. Ten minutes later, dozens of our neighbors were out looking for the body. The cops and the fire department were out in front of N&G's school and there wasn't a lot of urgency.

This morning, there was the stuff they put down to soak up gas and oil in a streak from where the dip near our house is (you often hear cars bottom out, especially those who ignore the big DIP signs), two blocks down, all the way to the school. Someone had a very bad night.

Oh, no, meara. That must be so frustrating!

ETA: man, Kat, that sounds pretty bad.

Yeah, and I just saw a bug in my hotel room and am wide awake trying to convince myself it's not a bedbug. What temperature would I have to heat my suitcase to, to kill them, if it were one?

StE didn't take naps. He got taken by a few, but on the whole, like Emmett, they made him groggy and didn't help with the sleep total for the night.

Wishing meara no bedbugs.

Kat, that does sound bad.

I had my Grandmother's 1930's gold tank watch with leaves engraved along the frame, on a leather strap. And a plastic Timex for walking and biking.

In principle, I am not sure people are against voter ID, but the implementation is really biased: has to be a state issued id or driver's license, school id won't work. library card won't work. gun license WILL work.

To be fair, I would hope that the identification process is more closely monitored for gun licenses than for library cards.

People never realize how truly dangerous books can be...

GNARGHHHH I don't want to be awake right now. Or for the last three hours.