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

H. narrowly escaped John's attempt to put her into a Skinner box, only to experience a far more ignominious fate:

I think that is part of the issue my sister is dealing with, also that her husband is literally never home while she has the four kids all the time. (Cuz her husband is out doing the farming thing.) So yeah, she put herself in that box, but I do feel bad for her about it. She clearly has no idea how to fix it.

Also I feel totally guilty that I'm the Heather's Husband figure in my family lately due to school.

hahahaha, the cover of the Northfield News that came out today has a photo of three of the women elected to our city government yesterday. The headline? "Broadening the Field."

How tired were the editors last night?

hah! broadening!!!

i am all riled up now from our first day of collective bargaining and do NOT want to do my drafting homework :(

I have been on the treadmill and before that reading about the various types of shock. More reading about shock to follow...

xp The article also mentioned that we had a "more estrogen-laden" slate of winners here last night than usual. I suspect they were really drunk when the front page was created.

omg thanksgiving planning guilt trips already. ugh. 2 years in a row.

Yikes. I hate the family guilties. Hey, my family never does that to me, though; it's A's family who is always unhappy if we can't come. One thing I really appreciate about my family. SERIOUSLY

We will be at Disney World for Thanksgiving. I just have to get through the rest of this class and I can think about our crazy big trip!

Disney World!

The R-C family fixation is Disney World. We happened to be there about a month after 9/11 (A. had to be at a conference) and it turned out to be the perfect place to be at that time. Unfortunately, it is a crazy expensive addiction.

We've never been to Disney World and the last time I was at Disneyland was 1977. ;_;

I've never been to either. :(

holy shit 1977 ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_;

what is the "feeble old man with a cane" emoticon

i went to both in may 1986

Well, if you go during Thanksgiving week this year, I will meet you there and buy you an ice cream. :)

ps Dan, I know you have been a ton of cooler places than Disney World since college; your international travel totally dwarfs mine (Canada & Japan). Having kids is probably the other half of the OMG I AM AN EMBARRASSING DISNEY ADDICT thing, too. It is really fun to take them.

well. this is why i get for putting off eye doctor visits for far too long: woke up late, put in contact OW OW OW can not wear contact. white of eye super irritated and red. oh wait - my glasses are from 2004 and i can't wear them for more than 5 min without getting a headache! great. now i have to go to lens crafters (lol) and get new ones made because they are the only ppl that can do same day (unless someone else knows of another racket that will do this) and they can not see me until 4:30. so... no working. also, missing class. fantastic. also i do not even want to think about how much this is all going to cost.

also i have never been to disney world ;_;

Go to Disney World now. All your problems will be solved.

tokyo disneyland is weird and not as good

Disneyland's only a few miles away from where I live. Was there last summer with some ILXors.

this isnt bragging 2008, mr raggett

Sometimes I hate that Ned guy.

tza, I hope your vision stuff all gets sorted quickly (and cheaply...)

Awwww SRC please tell me you are staying in the Polynesian or Contemporary hotels; my mom wouldn't stay in any hotel but the latter and my aunt and uncle would always stay in Fake Hawaii. I haven't been since 1979.

I've never stayed at either, although we're going to eat at Ohana for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning, and that's over at the Polynesian.

We'll be at Saratoga Springs, one of the newer DVC resorts. (We are traveling again with my best friend and her family; they are DVC members).

Someday I would love to stay at Polynesian or the Contemporary. Biggest dream: staying at the Grand Floridian. Soooooo gorgeous over there.

We'll be at Saratoga Springs

Uh? (See, I lived in the honest-to-god Saratoga Springs in New York for three years.)

NED YOU ARE NOT MAKING ME HATE YOU LESS RIGHT NOW

Ned Raggett, I love you but you're bringing me down.

My house there from 1982 to 1985:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/2693266341_726192993d.jpg

aw, shades of Amityville

Duplex?

Nope, full house. As Dan notes, we had to scrub the blood out.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2693266365_af6eb741fd.jpg

My sis in the backyard of the house one winter afternoon.

When I was younger, though, we did live in the left side of this duplex near SF:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2674577905_44518a2a6d.jpg

All these shots from this set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157603658504044/

Okay, seriously, if I had lived in a house that looked like the one from the Amityville Horror when I was a kid, I would not have slept. EVER

hello. i may be intoxicated.

just bought bunches of books and helped my pal shaun make chili for tomorrows FLUFFY BEAR AND FRIEND SHAUN POSTELECTION ALL FUNN WHEELAH ALL THE TIME CHILI FEED which mostly consisted of K and I hanging out and tasting chili in progress and drinking beers.

it is a hard and terrible road that i travel, i know.

Okay, I hate you both now.

HAPPY?

i also got a free pair of shoes. srsly.

does that help?

is fluffy bear eljeffexxlskdjls on last.fm?

yes, if those last random characters are random characters.

used to replace a perhaps western television show of some acclaim

xp NO IT DOES NOT HELP

sorry I am so crabby, but I will be at hospital and then at home writing up whatever I find out about my patient so that I can get up at 4:30 am on Sat. morning to go back to the hospital.

My attitude is just hopeless of late.

I'm angrier than John McCain at a debate!

would it help if i said that they were really awesome shoes?

xpost um i guess not oops

(also apparently struggling with metaphors)

I'm happy for you having good shoes, John. I did not like to imagine you walking around with cardboard on your feet during another Minnesota winter.

tiger onitsuka ultimate 81 in oatmeal/carrot!!!!

(that is actually not just a random string of words. i swear. it describes shoes.)

color scheme of the middle shoe in this: http://www.dragonfencing.com/Shoes/CIMG1545_2_1.JPG

but in this http://www.dragonfencing.com/Shoes/CIMG1409_13_2_1.JPG style