still in it

dale realized last night that we weren’t just trying to scare him off- being married to me really does involve an eternity of the annual carlile family halloween party…complete with the singing of halloween carols.  amazingly enough, he has not reconsidered!

baby jelly, on the other hand, woke up from his nap during the singing, and he is reconsidering joining the family.  “this wasn’t in the plan!  i just wanted a body!  i didn’t sign up for this!”

oh yeah-i don’t have cancer

…or hepatitis.  looks like i was right about the drinking thing though.

cliff-diving

ok, so i was griping about it being too hot, right?  well we flew to california for the weekend, and came back to SNOW!  it was freakin sweet.  it’s all melted now, but nice and chilly still.  so i’m happy.

driving home from school today, zoe wanted to know if we could go cliff-diving for a family vacation.  the kid has no fear; she also asked dale if he would take her sky-diving.  that was a while ago.  anyway, i told her that if she wanted to go as a whole family, she would probably be waiting fifteen years or so.  that pissed her off, she wants to go when she’s seven.  yeah.  i guess it’s my fault for thinking i should always be truthful with her…i was the one who told her what cliff-diving was, in response to a question about whether or not the story a song told was true.  should have said something non-committal like, “it could be, sweetheart.”  because when i told her that it was, of course she wanted the whole story.  why wouldn’t she?  anyway.  at least i could leave out the part about the shrooms, right?  man, why did i get the kid who listens to the lyrics?  it probably means i should be more selective about what i listen to with her around, but then i’d be back to crappy recordings of nursery rhymes, so you know that’s not going to happen.

no such thing as global warming, eh?

then why the hell is my local forecast for EIGHTY-SIX FREAKING DEGREES on the first of OCTOBER? i live in northern utah. greatest snow on earth. right…because snow is possible when in never even gets cold.

psh. i want six-feet-of-snow winters back. because six-inches-of-snow winters are LAME!

edit- i looked up the averages, just because. and the average high in my city for the first of october is 70F. if we actually get to 86, it’ll break 2003’s record high. yep.