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The Mo is having surgery tomorrow morning. Poor mom has to drive him the 3 hours to the dog surgeon at the buttcrack of dawn.

Send prayers and doggie thoughts!

Here's a picture of him riding in our ski boat to make sure you are doing so, because who could resist that FAAACE? Note us holding onto his collar so he doesn't fly out of the boat.

In 7 weeks I'm going to have one of these. Along with, I assume, the pee stain.

Had an awesome time at the Rifftrax: House on Haunted Hill last night with mah peeps and goddamnbatman  's parents. Although holy balls that movie makes no sense. The original. I mean, I realize that's kind of par for the course with their riffs but...there weren't even any ghosts. And what about those 9 other people killed? And what was the leprechaun guy talking about if there weren't any ghosts? And why was that old blind lady on roller skates and.......yeah.


ANYWAY, thx as always to Sarah! You rock! and seeing her on the bigscreen was SO CUTE. You were adorable and didn't look awkward at all. We all just automatically started screaming when she came up. And when her name rolled at the credits. Your mom was so proud!!!

Day 23: Favorite duet

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Here's a lovely and touching duet.

well THAT was exciting.

Was laying in bead in my underwear with Sam and Hattie watching a Lifetime Original move with Peter Outerbridge when the tornado siren went off. We didn't even know it was cloudy. Wandered out onto the porch and looked over to see green and purple clouds swirling with fingers coming down already. RAN back in and yelled to Sam to get dressed. We threw on some clothes, grabbed the dog and started running for the neighborhood storm shelter along with several other families. There were cops careening around the streets telling people to take shelter as apparently it was touching down like, RIGHT downtown in our part of the city.

AND in the middle of this, I was rupturing a cyst on my ovary. Actually I had JUST taken a Valium when all this started.

That is the only time I really, really thought we were in trouble. Probably because I SAW the fingers of the tornado started to descend.

Damn.  No one was even expecting bad weather at all.

Day 21: A song that makes you want to break stuff

I'm not sure this song makes me angry as much as it makes me want to drive really fast in a car that shoots lasers and ramps over houses or something.

Day 20: Your favorite breakup song

This song is hilarious and I would like to dedicate it to a few ex-boyfriends.

"And if I always seem distracted, like my mind's somewhere else, that's because it's true. And that stupid pride that makes me feel that I have to follow through on even half-assed claims of loving you"

Day 18: An instrumental song you like

Another early morning run completed. Felt like death the entire time but I did it and I must admit I feel....refreshed and awake and I haven't even had coffee. Plus this time I immediately made myself a piece of toast with a small over-medium egg and ate it BEFORE taking a shower. This led to far less nearly passing out.

Running in the Race for the Cure 5K on theotherpotter  's team this weekend. And when I say running I mean I told her to pair me up with the slowest person in the group. Will probably spend all of Sunday doing nothing and seeing no one in order to make up for all that productivity and socialization.

Tutoring tonight, as always. Trying to help my kid do a speech on Harriet Tubman...when she CAN"T READ. Ugh, I need more TIME with this girl but they can't afford it, which I understand. But it's so hard to get her through her homework AND try to teach her HOW TO FUCKING READ at the same time. I mean, she can read 1 syllable words and sight read a few longer ones but she has to sound out everything else. And gets understandably frustrated. And she knows what she wants to talk about in her speech, but she can barely do any research and doesn't know how to type. Think I'm going to get some 3rd grade level (she's 15) flashcards for her to work on in between our sessions. They have this seriously disturbed kid in a behavioral hospital they want me to take. It would be a LOT of hours and very hard AND in a different town but I'm thinking about it. I'm one of the only ones who has experience with older kids and 'difficult' kids. The money would be sweet.