Okay, but what's the down side?

I missed the memo on serial killer chic.

That's just me though

Much ~ma to Darby and yourself, Brenda.

I don't count dismembering Barbies as an endorsement of murder. I *do* think dismembering Barbies can be funny.

I really like the boobs one. But the mouths without faces freaks me out.

Brenda, this is the first place I've seen that. How ridiculous!!

Jesus Christ. My dad just called me at work to ask me to look up a person's phone number online because he doesn't have a white pages. He didn't even know where she lives, at which point I told him there are going to be literally hundreds of people in the country with that name.

He keeps calling me more and more at work to ask me (or tell me) random unimportant bullshit (or at least things that can wait until after work). If it were any other person, I wouldn't answer my cell phone and let it go to voice mail, but every time I see his name on caller ID, I assume that he's having a heart attack, because why else would he call me at work? So I answer it in case he's dying. AND HE NEVER IS.

Apparently we need to have another come-to-Jesus talk about not calling me at work for bullshit reasons.

Get-better~ma for Darby!

I was as Matilda is, although the assignments that made me cry were math. I still suffer from the perfectionism curse, though I'm slowly getting past it. (Does anyone else, when trying not to Write Perfectly, find themselves trying to Write the Right Kind of Badly?)

Matilda said her vagina felt funny this morning. (Not "ha ha" funny.) It's hard to get a 5 y.o. to clarify that. But apparently kind of of tingly/tickly? Would that be a result of the yeast infection medicine? It wasn't before.

And now she's saying it stings when she pees. Again.

Why won't it go away??! Why must ladybits be so complicated?

It would help if she were more stoic so I knew when to take her seriously. But she cries about the tags in her shirt and every gas bubble and if her sleeves stick out of her jacket. You know?

But I do think it's bothering her. I just don't know what else to do. Don't really want to make a fourth trip back to the doctor, but we might have to.

Franny went through a crying over homework stage, and Isaac is smack dab in the middle of it. But in both of their cases, the issue isn't perfectionism, the issue is not wanting to do homework.

Lord, look at these necklaces.

::shudder:: Those hit me right in the uncanny zone in a way that is dark and scary and has nothing to do with serial murder. As a child, I used to dream over and over again about being alone in a darkened warehouse full of dolls and all the dolls coming to life.

Hmm, not sure Hec. I tend to associate tickly/tingly with a yeast infection, but since she's getting that treated that's probably not it. Maybe she's just hyper sensitized right now so she's aware of everything she's feeling? Who knows? Maybe what she's actually feeling is the tissues healing.