It's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

I hope that dog really did a number on you.

I've got nothing to say so I'm going to make some shit up. It's gonna be great! When we're all dead it's gonna be great.

My family has an email list thingy where we all can email the family and we all get the emails and so sometimes interesting conversations happen. I usually don't pay any attention unless the conversation is about me. Recently, it was.

"I can't help but wonder, when you look at your 50 and 60 year old daughters, do you still see us as 5 year olds? As when I look at my 18 year old I see her as 5?" - my aunt

"That ability to recall your babies becomes even more acute with age. And they recur in dreams at many ages ... and I love it! Except when something is wrong, then I need to worry a bit." - my grandmother

"I agree with much of what you say, except for Mandy. Since she was was is called “the unwanted child,” neither Nicki nor I have dreams of her. Nicki once had a dream where she came into a nursery and saw an empty crib, but that was more of a happy dream where the unwanted child was never born. But we do have many wonderful dreams of the other two as tots playing with beautiful sleek knives and colorful pistols." - my father

"similar to my dreams of orphanhoodness. wonderful dreams of gruel and orphan parentless antics." - me

"All "unwanted" children should be doted on as was Mandy-moo ... a more adorable and adored baby did not exist ... well, except for her cousins and sibling, but she had all the attention for a space of time. llj" - my grandmother

"I dreamt once that nobody was watching mandy and she fell down the stairs. I woke up and she was standing very still in my doorway silhoeted against the hall light, her face illumined by the reflected glare from the butcher knife in her hand. "dinner's ready" she said with a perky smile." - my brother


My favorite part is where my grandmother says " except for her cousins and sibling" because I had two siblings. So obviously one of them was not adorable or adored as much as myself and the other. Which one? I think we all know. Most likely it was a typo. But whatever.

Should I study abroad in Italy? Why, when I can study any number of broads here in the good ol' USofA. Ha hardy har. I am seriously considering it. All I haved to do is come up with 7,000 dollars plus airfare and money for food and "personal expenditures." Everything else is included in the 7,000. I should hope so.

Man! It is really raining outside!