I was going to write all about how my son came home with these papers in his backpack that say that a first grader, thus far into the school year, should be reading 30 words in 60 seconds and that when tested, he reads 27 words in 14 seconds. Now I know that I'm math challenged, I'll be the first to step up and say so, but if I'm right... that means he reads four times faster than he should. Further, by the end of the school year, they should be able to read 60 words in 60 seconds, which he, again if my math is correct, is reading twice that many right now.

Can't do that however... because I remembered hearing somewhere that you get your intelligence from your mother, and so I went and Googled that, to double check and randomly came across this other thing which I found SO humorous and utterly necessary, that I had to link it here. It's a LOT of reading, I'll admit, but it's the opposite side of the coin for most of you, and someone needs to tell these people this information! I believe, most, if not all of the time, that the best way to deal with an uncomfortable and potentially argumentative situation, is to understand the other person's side and then you'll know better how to combat it and what motivates their opinions and thoughts.

That said, this might be useful for some of you... The Straight Person's Guide To Gay Ettiquette

So the anthology is up, YAY! Steve is missing *POUT* but you know... priorities, right? I'm proud of him for doing what he's doing, so I suppose *sigh* I can deal with his name being absent from the list.

I thought I was gonna have to be without my Davey for a few days, but as it turns out, he got stormed in and had to miss the ridiculously unnecessary training meeting he was scheduled to be at. Come on people! The man is The Captain after all! Sheesh!

My daughter and I decided that Justin Timberlake looks a LOT like my brother, the older one, especially when he smiles. Silly really.

GASP! In weirder news... Randomly the other day while I was bored, I searched my name on Yahoo, and there was a link to Wikipedia so I was like WTF?! I clicked the link, and there my name is on a list of famous people in California as an Author!! Imagine my shock and surprise right?! So you know, one of my friends was like, "Viv, that's badass!" and another was like, "That's cool." I told him it would be cooler if it were, oh, I don't know, true perhaps... and he said, " It's on wiki, that makes it so!" I love him and I guess I am an author, even if not in the sense that I get paid to write and publish my books for people to buy in bookstores and hold in their pretty little hands. Anyway, so there my name is under lots of famous others, and when I clicked it, there was no information listed about me. So, once I got over freaking out about how someone added my name to this list and wondering who the hell would do that, I wondered if I should add some info about myself there... what do you guys think?

Anyway, I whined to Dave and he went all detective on my ass and told me it was someone in Baltimore that added me, which coincidentally is where my Justin Timberlake, look-a-like brother lives, but I don't know if it was him, or some weird random coincidence that his neighbor did it.

Laptop = STILL broken

When I got home this afternoon from work, Zoey woke up when I walked in the door and stood up and stretched and jumped off the couch and trotted, as only a kitten can, across the living room and jumped up on the other couch before climbing up the back of it to get to the shelf I was standing by so I could cuddle her and then proceeded to purr for the next twenty minutes through me changing clothes and checking email and messaging my Sweetie, and she was all snuggling and lovey, and We love Zoey!

I'm glad my angel is going to San Francisco with us... maybe his fancy new camera can make me look good and you know.. .not pregnant like this young 17 year old girl I work with, who I'm trying very hard to convince myself doesn't know any better, asked me if I was, and when I looked appalled and said, "NO!" she had the class to say, "Are you sure?"

Tomorrow is hump day so take full advantage, kay?

Hugs,

Viv