Makes it easier to bond with it.

I am...working this weekend. At 12:30AM Sunday morning.

oh dear. That's horrid.

I am so tired I want to go pass out, but I need to grade one student's paper. She turned in the wrong essay (turned in paper 4 for paper 3) and I was nice enough to tell her instead of just giving her an F. And she has the gall to complain when I didn't return it within 24 hours!! Grrr!! Anyway, grading it before bed so I won't be taunted by her paper all weekend.

Advent calendars! Now I remember. Both kids have chocolate calendars, and Isaac has the Star Wars Lego one and he's over the moon about it. Cute calendar.

goddamn but Parenthood tv show can make me cry a million different ways.

Advent calendar

we can't do one. we have a cool one my mom made, but the first time mac gets mad he eats all the candy. We've tried it twice, no more.

oh mac! Getting in your own way again.

I so don't want to grade this dang paper.

I bought the each of the kids a chocolate advent calendar, not one of the cheep ones, but not too expensive. They have said it is decent chocolate.

We also have a felt one that has pockets for each of the days and little felt ornaments to cover each date. This year I fill the pockets with various flavors of Kisses.

Yay, done with that GD paper.

bed time, ho!

hivemind - I am kinda obsessed with finding images of this platinum blond model from the 80s, short hair pixie-like she did Valentino print ads I am almost sure. I remember having full-page ones from Interview magazines that were only her. I have googled 1980's valentino, valentino ads, valentino print ads (with various years from the 80s in the search, platinum pixie supermodels, 80s supermodels short hair, 80s androgyny, 80s androgynous models, and other variations of the same - nothing just in case anyone has bad insomnia anytime soon and needs a project.

now a big glass of water and bed.

Hey Steph, do you still have sawhorses or some sort of other substantial standing frames or equipment out in your yard? It occurred to me that if you wanted to maybe make the place more worrisome to people who might be casing the neighborhood, asking someone from the police force or a gun range for some used paper targets to pin up might do the trick.

Man, I am so continually dehydrated. I dunno what's up with that. I cannot get enough to drink. And I'm at the ER, so they're about to make that worse. But I do really like the little bottles of apple juice.

I can overhear a cop talk about double tap training. Shoot till they're down. Don't shoot unless you want them not to get up.

No xmas parade this year. We will miss it but Vacation!