JenP, I am here to validate your perception of chipmunk cuteness! They are so stonkin' adorable it hurts.

Lol I’m so glad I misread that about Naomi Novik, I was worried it wAs another JK Rowling situation and I would have to be sad. Much relief.

Thank you, JZ! I don't think I'd ever seen one in person before. Delightful!

We are celebrating Independence Day with friends at a Brazilian steakhouse later.. Meat all around! Seems fitting.

Send the house sale ~ma my way. I just showed the house to a couple who are looking to move to my neighborhood to be near his parents as they have a toddler and want a bigger place. He actually found my website, perhaps the only person who ever has found it. The house isn't listed but he reached out to me to see if I was interested in selling. They seemed to like everything and really no other house has quite the location mine does for little kids since I am on a park with a great playground. Anyway, it would be really ideal to sell it without having to list it and have showing and all that.

Now that they are gone I am packing packing packing so I can get out of here in the morning.

Timelies all!

Happy 4th to the US Buffistas! No plans here, other than watching A Capitol Fourth on tv.

Had my friends from Reston over for brunch. So nice to be able to have people over. They are headed back now and I’m doing laundry and some more outside stuff that is in the shade.

happy 4th. I woke up to yet more dog vomit and spent 5 hours at the emergency vet, where they charged me a month's mortgage to attempt to figure out why J cannot keep anything down.

I don't think there's much chance they'll keep her through the night, so I will have a doped-up sick nauseated dog to get through the BOOM times tonight.

Oh Suela that sucks hard. I’m so sorry. Poor puppy.

Oh no, 'suela! I'm sorry.

I went grocery shopping and I think that's about all I'm going to accomplish today. I have been confused about what day it is all weekend - the observed holiday on Monday going my head and made me think yesterday was the 2nd and I've just been off balance about when I can do anything ever since. But now that I have it straight n my head I feel good about trying to do some stuff tomorrow. Hopefully it will feel like the bonus day it is.

I think there are fireworks at the waterfront tonight but staying up past sunset to see them and then come home sounds like something that would throw off my sleeping patterns for the next week. I am a delicate flower when it comes to regular sleep. Just listening to the fireworks and going to sleep once they are over shouldn't be too disruptive, judging by past years.

Oh no, consuela. Good luck!

House luck, Laura!

But so weird tat 20 years later, my podcasts are authored by the old TWOP crew…. Including NPR and Slate.

Yeah, that is a trip, honestly.