I like parades. In particular when they have super pretty floats and great marching bands. IOW, guess what I have been watching this morning.

Jesse, it was a good thing we had the conversation. We are kind of each other's primary relationship, even though it is platonic, and we have been pretty annoyed at each other and not saying anything. Who knew you had to act like an adult even if you weren't in a marriage/long term relationship. I guess it is really a long term relationship! How we ended up in this friendship when where we both bring out the worst in our relationships with our mothers is sort of humorous. I am always defending her mom and kids, and she is always defending my mom, so we really need to find other people to complain to. I have a line on someone at work, my coworker Joe's wife, who is an adjunct. I think we have the same mother.

I love parades, but they make me cry! There is just something about them.

Last night as I was falling asleep I was overwhelmed with the smell of someone baking brownies. I was awake enough to know it wasn't real, but it smelled so good, I didn't care.

Timelies all!

Happy New Year's Day, all!

Mmm, spectral brownies

Spent about 5 hours over with the parents today. I took all my tools over for dad to look at and we upgraded stuff and filled in holes since he will need virtually no tools in the retirement community. I had and overflow of screwdrivers and drill bits, so now I have fewer and better, also socket wrenches, and vice grips, and a vice to mount on my workbench. cleaned up a bunch of stuff and left the duplicates and not great stuff to go in their garage sale.

Ugh. Brushing my teeth just made me gag and throw up. That's new. I guess it's probably unfortunate timing and a stomach bug?

Not how I mean to go on, new year.

That's a really good idea, going through you and your father's tools, msbelle.

That's a great idea you had, msbelle.

I didn't realize your parents are moving, too, msbelle! Are they going to SoCal??

Ugh, -t.