mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

RR - I'm crossing my fingers on good news all around on this possible job!

Have fun watching football. I've never loved that myself, but it did used to mean we got to eat popcorn at my house. Mmmmmm popcorn.

The only reason I would have kids (and it's too late) would be for the chores aspect. Small slaves, under my thumb.

Anyone squeezing kid out for hope of chore slave is going to be SORE disappointed. Me and my brother would be laying on the floor playing video games and couldn't even beg EACH OTHER successfully for small favors such as, "Get me some waaaaaaaaaaater." "No, yooooouuuuu get meeee some water."

Let alone that our mom had to read riot act to even get us to do something like empty the dishwasher.

(Apparently, tho, my youngest bro. who is the only one who isn't off at college. insists on putting away the dishes every time. He gets really angry iif someone does not arrange the cups and plates and silverware in his preferred order.)

He is turning into Monk. Beware.

I guess! He always says "goodnightloveyousweetdreams" to everyone before he goes to bed, which is really cute. But if you try and say a sentence or two after that, or ask him a question, he gets really frustrated and just starts over. "GoodNIGHTLOVEyouSWEETDREAMS!" And runs off to his room before anyone can ruin his ritual again. "But honey, did you remember to check your blood sugar?" "ARGH YES IT WAS 178 I TOOK INSULIN GOOD NIGHTLOVEYOUSWEETDREAMS!"

Aw.
My family seems to be obsessed with my sister and her husband, who are not even here. Middle child syndrome kicking into full gear!

Anyway here is a toast from my grandpa:
Here's to the girl up the hill
She won't but her sister will
So here's to her sister.

^he tells us this is a vintage from 1934!!

Also my parents always tried for the slave labor. So many summer mornings ruined by the URGENCY of a lawn that needed mowing before the sun was up too high. Ugh.

I have to say that I'm proud that I recognized my complete lack of parental instincts and acted - or not - on that. I remember having a conversation with a friend who is a parent, and saying that having kids can statistically lower your chances of developing breast cancer. She was like "Um - that's probably not a good reason to have children."

Plus I'm the best crazy aunt ever.

Will you be my crazy aunt? I need one that's not crazy in a bad way. I want a fun crazy aunt!!!

Stayed at John and K's way too late last night; so awesome! I will probably never catch up in terms of sleep, but it was worth it. And I did not kidnap Dan and J031 to force them to stay here forever, but it wasn't because I didn't want to.

Ed - if you're reading this, it was nice to meet you! I hope you got some rest before having to go back to the RNC beast...

By the time I got back down town I was all awake and stopped for a cheeseburger and malt at mickey's then walked back. Was stopped by a cop. My guys were still in the bar when I got there. I had a beer and then bed. Woke up naturally and rested. Dinner at the St Paul Grill tonight and hopefully meet some of you before/after.

Sounds like you had a good ending to your night; have fun this evening and I'll be watching for you on the RNC broadcast. Well, as much of it as I can stomach anyway...

3 hours to go, trying not to die.

No death, now. It is uncouth.

xpost Good to know you have discovered Mickey's Diner.

is (are you) Ed with the big dreadlocks Ed? I have been assuming you are.

is the RNC happening today? I might have to watch some of it. I have vodka and mixers.

Yup, that's me:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/2807308434/

have been here setting up all week. It starts on monday.

That's awesome! I will vote for you.

I'm curious about the conventions - I guess the party that isn't in office goes first, and then the incumbents follow?

I believe that the incumbent party gets to choose whether they go first or last. They usually choose last (presumably to get the "bounce" later, or at least have the opportunity to rebut the other party's convention).

Now if McCain had chosen Ed as his running mate, I might have considered casting my first R vote ever...

So it's like hopscotch.
I went first yesterday and I won.
Now I get to tell you when you get to go.

I don't even know where the RNC is happening. Hastings?

lol, St. Paul, Minnesota. But the proximity to Hastings is terrifying.

Why? Too many republicans?
At least they're all in one place. I'm nervous when they're roaming the countryside, making up stupid policies.

Well, that's true. At least this way we can keep them in our sight and avoid them if possible...

I think you should try to take all of their money.

Just point skywards. Or, better yet, direct them to a Republican butterhead display.
OMG turdhead Rove in butter would be the best thing ever. Cheney in butter! I would lick that.

Okay, I am now extremely disturbed. Licking even an image of Cheney under any circumstances seems like it could be courting post-traumatic stress disorder.

I don't know how to get the Republican's money unless I use my fancy Student Nursing Skillz. And that seems kind of unlikely.

I am watching high school musical for the first time with my cousin who has the entire thing memorized omg

okay, wow. That's a weird Saturday night.

I did laundry and now I'm going to go to bed. Because I'm exhausted, old, and pathetic!

oh BTW to the people that were here last night, while we were drinking it up the police were raiding a building about 5 blocks away in RNC related hijinks. GOOD TIMES.

obv we should have rocked out LOUDER AND HARDER window of opportunity and all that.

Amazing stuff.

A note to RubyRedd! Sadly I fear I must postpone my Bay Area visit due to a couple of factors beyond my control, as they say -- I am going to try and aim for October, though. More as this all comes together!

Meantime, St. Paul LOLs:

After all the geographic gaffes, the snickers, the years of slights, it was a final affront, some who wandered this downtown grumbled this week. Here, on a screaming red sign plastered to the side of the Xcel Energy Center, the Republicans’ convention hall that sits squarely, unambiguously in the city of St. Paul, were these enormous words: Minneapolis-St. Paul.

These were irksome reminders to some locals who have spent years, even generations, trying to convince the rest of the world that St. Paul really is its own separate, legitimate, worthy (perhaps even superior) city — despite what its bigger, more confident sibling to the west may whisper to the contrary.

“The convention is in St. Paul, and we should just say that,” Carol Connolly, St. Paul’s poet laureate, who has lived here all of her 73 years, said firmly. “I think it’s dopey to say anything else, just dopey.”

It might have steamed her beans, even.

A further clarification:

Outside a St. Paul coffee shop, Diane Mast, who grew up here, said she, too, had been put off by the “lumping together” of Minneapolis and St. Paul in so much convention hoopla. It bothers her, she said. How could it not? Many of her friends have moved to Minneapolis. So have their children and grandchildren. She is not going, she said, no matter how many times they ask.

Quietly, Mrs. Mast, 76, offered a confession. Fifty years ago, during her honeymoon in Los Angeles, a manicurist asked her where she was from. She said Minneapolis.

“I guess I wanted to be hip,” Mrs. Mast said. “I don’t know why I said it. I wish I hadn’t.” She said it never happened again.

Fuck Minneapolis.

no one that can be trusted lives there anyway.

(note: fluffy bear, a notorious furry, resides in minneapolis. BATMANG, a lauded do-gooder lives in STPL. YOU BE THE JUDGE.)

Why did I wake up @ 7:15 to the sounds of cousin drinking chocolate milk really loudly out of a duooy cup? The coffee here is like colored water and I feel like a zombie :(

Meanwhile, high school musical 2 is far better than 1. We will inevitably watch 3 later. Oooh boy!

Can't wait for High School Musical 15: The Pedo Reunion

"You never left too?"

"Why would I!"

I hear the cafeteria food at that high school is to die for.

Wait, I thought BATMANG was both a do-gooder and a vigilante. That seems to be a mixed bag...

I am so pissed that they're releasing high school musical 3 to theaters. How exploitative is that?

Guys I feel so cheated. My cousin told me he had 3, aunt informs me it's not out til October! I guess it's not really his fault bc he doesn't know any better.

At least now we all have something to look forward to other than Halloween. ;)

He's a lying little mofo and he should not drink anymore chocolate milk.

I got stuck in a basement playing Battleship with my then five year old nephew. On Christmas Eve. he had just received the game as a present.

My sister-in-law came down twice to refill my wine glass. "You're taking one for the team!"

I was really upset that my nephew did not understand the rules. You can't just go around sinking battleships because it sounds good!

this was still at the time that my nephew and nieces were so young, and sometimes confused about aunts and uncles, and my nephew said "How come Uncle Alison."

maybe you had to be there. Uncle Alison still breaks my heart in a good way. Also I wasn't really upset. Kids are dramatic by nature - I feed into it.

They get good books from me, and I write letters to them. Silly letters.
I could totally be your crazy aunt, Sara - how am I not your crazy aunt on this thread? I'm everyone's crazy aunt.

uncle alison is very adorable.

i am a sucker for all things having to do with aunts and nieces, on account of i have one aunt and one niece and they are both completely awesome.

yeah, given that fatherhood (if it ever happens) is a loooooong way off, i'm keen to embrace uncledom and am encouraging my coupled up friends to procreate post haste. not my sister though, ewww.

i reckon i'm ready, having spent years dangling younger cousins upside down by their ankles to very giggly results. if only it was that easy to get girls to like me.

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airmurchie, you can totally be my crazy aunt. Why not?

I slept a ton last night and I'm already tired and it's not even 9 pm. Possibly because it's already dark. I'm starting to miss summer already.

I HOPE YOU'RE ALL NOT DEAD!

Er, Happy Labor Day, I mean.