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[cell23 is trying to explain to Kidzilla why she and Lil'Beast shouldn't play with doors.]

cell23: So my cousin B and his sister K... you remember K, right?

Kidzilla: No?

Me: Yeah you do, she tried to dunk you into an ice bucket at that one party.

Kidzilla: Oh. [makes face] Yeah.

cell23: Yeah she's kind of a pain. Anyway they were about you guys' age and one day they were playing, and B swung a door shut real fast, and K's thumb was still in the way. It didn't come off exactly, but it did pop the joint out and they thought she might have to lose the thumb. Luckily she didn't have to. And THAT is why I don't want you two playing with doors.

Me: Of course, if she didn't have a thumb, she wouldn't be dunking anyone into ice buckets...

Kidzilla: Yeah!

cell23: YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

ANDEE: [looks at TO-DO LIST]

TO-DO LIST: [looks back]

["Battle without Honor or Humanity" begins playing and the impending showdown goes into step-printed slow motion]

ANDEE: I WILL DESTROY YOU.

TO-DO LIST: [is silent and intimidating, much like Dolph Lundgren. Or Rutger Hauer. Or a young Ah-nuld.]

[music swells then stops as RIDICULOUS FELINE jumps into ANDEE's lap and chirrups for pettins]

ANDEE: oh goddamn it, cat.

RIDICULOUS FELINE: [purrs]

....and /scene.

Me: *bopping along, working, being productive, doop de doop de doo*

Digestive tract: THIS CANNOT BE! TO THE BATHROOM WITH YOU, WENCH!

Me: OW, oog, okay okay okay! *flees into bathroom*

Digestive tract: I SHALL NOW HOLD YOU PRISONER UNTIL BOTH YOUR LEGS GO NUMB THEREBY DERAILING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY UTTERLY! MUUUUUUHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Me: Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal!

Digestive tract: FEAR MY AWESOME POWERS

Me: *wobbles out of the bathroom and tries to get back to work*

Digestive tract: WHAT IS THIS, WORK? BACK IN THERE WITH YOU.

Me: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo



Man, much as I am not looking forward to restarting Humira this week (mostly because I have to give myself four injections in under 30 minutes), I'm so done with this Crohnsy bullshit. I'm looking forward to when I can eat something without having it hurt like a motherfucker on the way out.

[Scene: 7:15am at The Great Race War, our bedroom. Enter LOVEBUG]

LOVEBUG [to cell23]: Can I play Thomas on your computer?

cell23 [groggy]: Kidzilla's still asleep, maybe when she wakes up, okay, buddy?

[LOVEBUG thinks about this for a minute, then smiles and exits. Thirty seconds later...]

LOVEBUG [offstage, at maximum volume]: WAKE UP 'ZILLA!!!

ME: ... *snrrrrrrrrrk*



So this is what I'd been missing in the morning.

I'm still a bit sore in a few places and my ankles are still a wee bit pffy, but I seem to be recovered from week of OMG PUT AWAY ALL THE THINGS. It is also cold and delicious this morning and was last night too - I needed a comforter and a snuggly cell23, which is about how I like it. Fall, she comes.

I promised Kidzilla if she was super good yesterday we'd watch James and the Giant Peach before her bedtime, and she was. (Lovebug, conversely, was a bit of a tantrum bear yesterday, but like I said to aersi last night it's tough being three. It's pretty much your worst day at work every day, where you're just trying to do your thing and your bosses are on you every other minute telling you you're doing something bad or wrong and that you're not allowed to do X or Y when X or Y looks like the most fun thing ever.) I'd always meant to see that movie and never got around to it, and Kidzilla hadn't seen it either, and it actually turned out to be pretty good. Kidzilla liked it so much that she got up and did this insane jumping around the room dance to the end credit music. Someone needs to introduce this kid to House of Pain, lol. Though there was a squee moment when cell23, caught up in her infectious delight got up and danced with her... d'awww.

This heartwarming moment brought to you by Netflix for Wii.

Oh hey, does anyone have a copy of Super Divorce Bros I can borrow? I keep meaning to play that and I've never gotten around to getting my hands on a copy. Also watching cell23 play LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is apparently high entertainment for Andees and for short stacks, lol.

Today: have to sneak down to Hadley for a little birthday shopping for the fuzzy blonde in my icon, throw some gas in Hanzo-san, and then later apparently all of us are headed off to a picnic type thing... And maybe since i feel better I'll finally get the T-shirts off the floor? Maybe? lol.

I don't know why, but for some reason all hurricanes talk like CATS from Zero Wing.

Eastern US: What happen?
NOAA: Somebody set us up the storm. We get satellite imagery. Main screen turn on.
Eastern US: O_O WTF.
Earl: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!! ALL YOUR COASTLINE ARE BELONG TO US.


Yeah old meme, but it certainly makes hurricane tracking amusing. At least post Earl the weather will be far more reasonable, eh?

Speaking of which, off to spend the day hiding from the blazing day star at work now. Ahhh central air.

Lovebug: RUN RUN RUN RUN FLOP DOWN ON FLOOR IN FRONT OF TV

Me: There's nothing on, kiddo. And you don't want to watch golf.

Lovebug: But I like golf!

Me: ...okay?



[10 minutes later]


Lovebug: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Me: ...D'AWWWWWW *squee*


Seriously, it was like one second he was all hyper, then he just... keeled over and went to sleep. There was a really cute moment when cell23 got down on the floor with him and Lovebug just snuggled up with Daddy and it was adorable as hell but they didn't hold still long enough for me to grab a picture of them.

A little later I scooped him off the floor and onto the couch and snuggled up with him... and fell asleep myself.



Only bad part about it was we both woke up when he had a bad dream and started crying. Still, it was cute... and I apparently needed the nap!

[yelling at dumb characters in Doctor Who]

bottledgoose: Oh come on, it's just good sense, you don't use your finger to poke the column of darkness!

cell23: [SHIT EATING GRIN]

bottledgoose: ...oh shut up, you.

Act I.

[LOVEBUG and GOOSE are sitting on the couch. LOVEBUG is playing (what else?) Thomas on GOOSE's iPod.]

GOOSE: [giggles and gently tickles LOVEBUG]

LOVEBUG: [squirming and cute 2.5 year old giggling]

GOOSE: [makes gentle pinching motion on LOVEBUG's cheek] I gotcher dimple!

LOVEBUG: [giggling] No you don't! Gimme it back, it's mine! [grabs the "dimple" out of GOOSE's hand and "sticks it back on"]

GOOSE: Tee hee. Tickle tickle!


Act II.

[cell23 has joined LOVEBUG and GOOSE on the couch]

GOOSE: hey Lovebug, I bet this works on Daddy too. [starts tickling cell23]

cell23: WTH? This is weird! Stop it! [smiles a little in spite of himself]

GOOSE: [swipes a "dimple"] AHA! Got it!

LOVEBUG: Nooooooooo Give it back! [grabs the "dimple" from GOOSE and puts it back on cell23]

cell23: Quick! gimme a kiss to stick it on!

LOVEBUG: [giggles and does]

GOOSE: [dies of cute]

FINIS.


I think out of a day spent at cell23's parents', the playground across town from them and watching the parachutists from the ice cream stand (with the gargantuan servings of ice cream - I shudder to think about ordering a large there!), these two little moments were my absolute favorites.

Scene:

Westfield Subway, around lunchtime.

Dramatis Personae:
LOL = slightly senile and very nearsighted little old lady.
SYC = Strapping Young Police Officer.

[Enter SYC.]

SYC: Mrs. ___! Mrs. ____!

LOL: [turns and squints up at SYC] ... do I know you?

SYC: It's me, ____! Remember me?

LOL: [squints some more] You a copper?

SYC: [proudly] Yes, ma'am, I am.

LOL: I don't like coppers. [turns back to considering her sandwich order]

SYC: *sadface*


Does it make me a bad person that I am rather looking forward to being a little old lady precisely so I can pull shit like this without consequence?

ME: [chilling in sunny beautiful weather in Northampton] Hmm. I should check the weather. Cara said something about rain all weekend, and she seems to be lying right now. Internets, TO ME.

LAPPY: WHIRR CLICK CLICK CLICK BLINKENLIGHTS

SUNSHINE: [is a lie]

LAPPY: U KAN HAS WEATHER FORCAST.

ME: [scrolls down to radar map]

HURRICANE BILL: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!! ALL YOUR EAST COAST ARE BELONG TO US!

ME: O_O!!!

SUNSHINE: I still lie. Do not trust me. I am pretty!



...yeah, I think coming back west when I did instead of staying out near Boston was a very good move. It was bad enough driving in downpours yesterday, I do not want to take on a hurricane.

In other news, going to see Ponyo later with aersi! Yay Miyazaki fishies!!!