Four, Fira, Quatre, Vier, uno dos tres Cuatro Go

Gotta love a good meme; this one is from the Texpat Karla:
Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
1. Exercising race-horses/training barrel horses.
2. Stage Manager
3. Scenery and Costume Designer
4. Manager of a dance studio on Sixth St. (anyone remember Torturcize?)
Four movies you could watch over and over:
1. Arthur
2. Better [...]

No, Carrie, NO! No prom pics!

Actually, the truth is that I can’t find my prom pictures. There is a chance that I burned them in a ritual ceremony, but I can’t think why… besides the fact that I was with my first boyfriend, and he was a major asshole.
But since Karla asked, I did go grab some pics. [...]

It’s all about the Fred

This is Fred. Napolean for short. (We often pronounce his name as ‘Frayyyyyyed’, long and soft). He and the Boy are huge buds.
We love our Fred. He just turned 10 on MLK day. We chose that date to celebrate his birth because, well, he’s Fred.
Fred came to us via the [...]

Holy haberdashery, Batman!

Six and a half hours, hard labor, cleaning/going through/organizing the Boy’s closet, room, shelves, etc.
Yes, girls accumulate a bunch of junk, but boys (at least in this family) can happily exist in filth. At least we girls keep our bunches of crap clean.

To give him a break, the Boy has plenty of help from [...]

the many perks of the blogging world

Bookhart wrote about “R.Kelly: Trapped in the Closet” in a way that had me hoppin’ over to Netflix. Despite the “available within the next 12 weeks” notice, it arrived pretty quickly. Tonight the boys are gone, and baby girl has four other seventh graders spending the night, so after feeding the masses, I [...]