Just a quick hi to anyone who might be popping in since I haven't written in a while. There's just not much going on right now. We're on hold on the yard thing till tomorrow at least and maybe through till next week. But hopefully I can post more yard pictures soon and I can sleep again at night. I wasn't cut out for this home-ownership craziness. >:(

Kids are doing well. They got new computer games and have sort of temporarily forgotten about me, but it's exciting to see Polly doing so well already. She's really good at the memory card game and using the mouse is getting a lot less frustrating for her and she's starting to have more fun with it. And as for Romy, I let her go to pokemon.com yesterday and she spent FOREVER looking up weird creatures with weird names until I thought I'd die. Good thing, though, is it's a surprisingly good way to learn about search engines. She got really good at typing just a few letters in order to find the ones she couldn't spell on her own. You try spelling Jirachi, I couldn't. But there was a will and a way, and now she's a net-searching pro. So, yeah, I never thought I'd say this, but yay for Pokemon.

As for Dane, we got Netflix after considering it forever now. We spend enough on late fines that it shouldn't affect our budget at all, either -- haha grrrrr. But we just got our first three movies -- Hitchhiker's Guide, I Heart Huckabees and Eraserhead. Dane's never seen Eraserhead and he's sooooo excited. Too bad, though, cause I'm making him watch Hitchhiker's with me tonight. If I wait one more day I'll pop. -- And yes, Romy, I really will pop. No joke.