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There's a fly buzzing between the window and the screen. Birds are chirping outside. Birds outside shout CHIRP! CHIRRRPP! My cat is alternately licking herself and napping. The tops of my toes are freezing because the window is open and I'm trying to let my toenails dry. (Cajun Shrimp)  I want to start writing. So I'm trying to be descriptive.

I've been reading What the Dog Saw but parts of it are difficult (not too difficult, just a little) to get through. That stuff about Enron and short selling and the stock market, I always get to those parts right before bed though and it's great just before you put your head down to read about the option to pay on a something sometimes in the future versus some other thingy.

Ya. Instant snooze.

I got two digital books from the digital library. It occurred to me with all this Kindle Nook and Cranny whatever fanfare that if a little bitty do-hickey can let us read a book, so could my laptop. So Adobe has a download called Editions, and the public library has the option to download-checkout virtual books. Yay. Never another overdue book, because when their time is up they just disappear. So I got The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier, which is pretty good, and also The Ape House by the same girl who wrote Water for Elephants. I have 10 days left of that one and I think five left on the first. 

My boys are all playing outside. Ostensibly together but I know the truth of the matter. The oldest, having found himself banned from going anywhere like over to his girlfriend's, and having failed in his attempt to invite them over here, did his chores, took out the trash, came back in and proclaimed the weather outdoors "too nice to stay inside" and they all three ran out together. The little two have come in once and said, "he's playing with us!" and also that one of the girls was back, which of course thrills the little two. But it probably worked to the oldest's advantage since I can't really say, "no you can't take your little brothers out for a walk" even if they do end up a couple blocks away at the girls house. That's okay, I'll say no next time he wants to go somewhere too.

After subjecting them to the Iowa Winter I can never say no when the Beautiful Spring finally makes an appearance. Nobody should be deprived of playing outside, shouldn't it be a right and not just a privilege?

The kids who live downstairs with the noisy car are playing their music rather loud but thankfully it seems just kinda groovy music and nothing too thumpy or angry.  Too bad they are overdosing on lighter fluid down there. Ugh. People can't fart in the yard without it coming right in my upstairs windows. Great, screwed up my fingernail closing the window so I wouldn't have to listen to their inane prattle or smell their stinky grill.

How long does nail polish take to dry anyway????

I put my hair up in rollers last night. It didn't turn out quite the way I expected. It was okay but way fluffier than I'm used to. I felt like a Housewife of Somewhere. So then I put on eyelash stuff and lipstick and blush and truly felt like a hussy. Seriously I don't think my hair has ever been this long. Then J. came over to see us and commented on how I put on lipstick and so I said, "Oh I was trying to look pretty for you!" Hah hah.

Poor J. this weekend he had to work AND go to these classes where the military explains to the formerly deployed servicemembers how to reintroduce themselves into society and how to get their career started or how to deal with their adolescent offspring or any number of other options I guess. I asked him if he would get to take the ASFAB test. Ha ha... then later I asked him if he had found himself and discovered his true calling and he said yes, he is going to join the circus.