yay for good phone screening

and keeping the job ma going out for Jilli and Amy

-t, that haircut looks AMAZING on you.

Burrell, keeping L in my thoughts.

Noah starts Boy Scouts tomorrow, which we are only agreeing to because of his unflagging enthusiasm and interest. The upside? Neither Katie nor I can be strong-armed into volunteering! I'm practicing saying, "Sorry. I'd love to, but I'm gay."

He does look adorbs in his little militaristic uniform.

K put Grace in a skort, but because she was mad at her, she didn't realize that it was a skort. Grace mermaided and had problems all morning, even on the walk to school. So bad.

Noah had an accident yesterday at school. When we came to pick him up, he knew he was in trouble so he went to the bathroom and attempted to change. But failed. So he came out of the bathroom with one shoe on and NO PANTS OR UNDERWEAR. Keep in mind, it's a california campus and there are bungalows, so he is standing on the playground half naked.

Noah's gonna be bullied. I think he needs Krav.

Looking good, -t!

Continued best thoughts to your sister, Burrell.

All of that, while boring, should be filed under, "Why I Won't Win Mom of the Year."

Also, I dyed my hair (and my ears, my neck, my shoulder, a bit of my forehead and my right hand). Blargh.

oh Kat! Poor Noah.

None of that was boring, Kat! What's "mermaided" mean?

Continuing job~ma for Jilli and Amy.

Someone send me some health~ma to get me over this cold. It's dragged on for a week now. Enough already; I've got shit to do that doesn't involve dripping and sneezing!

That's a great cut on you, -t!

All the words are spelled correctly, yet it fails to make sense.....

And yet I am pretty sure there are people who still have grudges against me for not being a note-sender. I should send thank you cards in the mail, but I just don't operate that way in my brain. I try to be mindful that other people aren't spacetoasters and like being thanked, so my thank yous usually happen in person, via email, or sometimes a random gift.

When I get thank you notes, I almost find them perplexing. I'm a fixer. Once I've completed a thing, I'm on to the next thing, and thinking about the thing after that.

Oh Burrell, best thoughts for your sister and for you.

I had other stuff to respond to, but I have forgotten.

Zenkitty, we call it mermaiding (or mermanning) when a kid puts both legs in one pantleg. This happens with surprisingly more frequency than one might assume.

I am a thank you card sender and a half. We send them to family for Christmas presents as well as birthday presents. I also send them to my students when they send a gift (on the rare occasion that they do).

Thank you notes are a big deal on one side of my family. I've recently transitioned from handwritten thank you notes to emails.

-t, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your haircut! So awesome!

Burrell, thinking of you and your sister. Fingers crossed that this treatment does more good than harm. Much more.