I went out to the Farmer's Market this morning and by the time I got back Mom had gotten up, gotten Dad out of bed and dressed, and fixed breakfast. I hope this means she's well on the road to recovery.

Also sacrificed most of the afternoon to a much-needed nap.

I had a stare down with an arguably very cute rat today. Unfortunately, it's one of several trying to burrow in my yard and under my garage, so it's doomed. All signed up for city rat rubout, but I may have deployed some gas warfare this afternoon. Good old household chemicals....

Impersonated neighbor with her permission and signed her up too.

First day of vacation: sick with a massive head cold and horrible cough. Man, can I self-sabotage or what? On the plus side, though, it got me out of playing miniature golf with my sister and her BF.

Happens a lot. When you finally relax, your body says "oh, I can get sick now, I have time"

Am I a background character in a comic book?

Entirely possible. Do keep us up to date if there are strange happenings--meteors, unusual animals, robots, etc...

If someone appears at your door in the middle of a thunderstorm, clutching a baby, close the door, lock it, and turn off all the lights.

Do keep us up to date if there are strange happenings--meteors, unusual animals, robots, etc...

We are using a robot for the ghost of Christmas Future this year. It's been hovering in the stage left wing for about a month now.

I've had a bad day. I've been busy all day long and accomplished almost nothing. I helped my grandmother move all morning, had lunch, did some laundry, mowed for a couple of hours (but didn't actually finish the yard), fixed a toilet (my only actual accomplishment), went to the grocery store, fixed dinner, and cleaned up the kitchen. Now I'm busy not getting enough software development done for work and rescheduling all of the things I wanted to get done today to other days. Almost a total fail.

Yes, she accidentally named her cats Nitty and Pearly.

That's adorable.

Today was a total success. Frances finished one homework assignment 2 days early, and then we went to a beach/lagoon for swimming and general hanging about. Perfect way to send off summer.

Personally, the word ally is fine with me, because you can be a fairly decent human being and sit on your dead butt. As an adult, in my mid-twenties, I had an e-mail argument with my father and wrote that he was full of crap(Man, the pearl-clutching that went on!) Still, much as they work my nerves and I like to curse, I'm somewhat pleased that I've never broken the f-omb barrier with any of them. Scola, sometimes I feel like the oldest unattached woman in the world, and, you know, kind of a human tragedy, with the chair and all. it sucks.

I'm sorry Gud, that was an unfortunate cross post