We just love our bugs!

Boy #2 found a dead cicada today, the second one found by our family. I've enlisted Boy #1 to help him properly pin it for display to his class. It seems to be in better shape than the first one that Boy #1 found. I've emailed Boy #2's teacher to see if it's okay for him to bring it in. Also, just heard a message that I hadn't listened to the other day from the Girl's social studies teacher. He was positively gushing about the Girl's test and the way she worded her answers. She got a hundred on the test and he said he felt compelled to call us right away and tell us how impressed he was with her writing. Said her test was actually fun to grade! I am proud of her, and hope that she keeps up the work with her writing.

Hubby went into work late today, and ended up working at an entirely different station. It was his so-called "day off", and he might as well have stayed home, really. They didn't have anything for him at his usual station. I hope he calls soon.

Need to watch part of the Thunderbirds movie once Boy #1 has finished his homework (the other two children have finished already). Research for The White Winds chapter 13, don't you know.

Talk about thin skinned!

I'm cheating here. I'm c/p from my MSN blogspace and backdating.

Made the very big mistake of reading something by "TracyLOVER" on ff.net today, and gave my honest opinion, which is that it was PWP, Porn Without Plot (or sometimes known as "Plot? What Plot?"). This got me a snarky so-called "review" on The White Winds, which I made the huge mistake of replying to in email.  She emailed me back. Talk about venom! Couldn't write a sentence without a four-letter word, said she'd tear out my eyeballs and feed them to her snake. I was very tempted to reply, tell her that I'd feed her snake to my cats, but... she's not worth my time, not to read or reply to.  The word that came to mind was, "immature". She obviously thinks the world of herself and her fiction, and has a very thin skin, which isn't surprising. Most of the kids on the site do.