In honor of your special day today, I am wearing the bra that makes my tits look best. Good luck on your dissertation defense!

Some comment spammer posted 75 spam comments to my blog overnight. Seriously. One comment I might have let slide, but 75? Deleted and blocked, baby.

In other news, in last night's D&D, Monstro got me down to zero hit points, but I recovered.

This is the 903rd article I've written since shifting to Blogharbor six years ago. Oh, and have I mentioned that this month is the 15th anniversary of when I started writing my blog? (Yeah, you're right, I have mentioned that. Now i remember.)

Would at least one of the two people who has the first page of AT RISE please send me an email of notes on it? Or at least tell me where it made you laugh out loud? Or, you can tell me that it sucked. Whatever. Just TELL ME. 'K. Thanks.

Monstro is using the D&D Obsidian portal to map out his new novel, which, by the way, has the World's Best Title.

Went to a party in Whoville today. After a week-long virus, at least I look skinny. Seventy degrees and gorgeous outside. One of the homeschooled kids rebuffed Lex not just the one time I saw but two other times, too. We left after 90 minutes as our BK what-we-call “Window” was closing. We timed it well enough that we even fueled up on the way home. A nice outing and now the boys are napping. Aahhhh.

I am ill. It started on Easter. It lingers. More soon.

Seventy-eight, 80 degrees in New England today. Lex and I celebrated at our first swimming lesson of the year. He practiced for 30 minutes — even jumped off the diving board! — and I swam fast laps for 25. Felt great.

The Look Park egg hunt was a blast, thank you so much to Look Park! Got some good pictures, too.

After non-naptime and ukulele practice — I'm playing tomorrow at Christ United Methodist Church, 8:30 am, Easter morning, big party, great for the kiddies, y'all come — I took the boys outside where they played while I washed a car. I didn't want them to dash off so we all had our shoes off and it mostly worked, though BK still went around the house a few times. (That's his thing.) Then everyone took a bath. BK took two.

Our house is mostly clean for tomorrow when we'll have Mom here and eat lamb 'til we burst. Mmmm, lamb. My Easter present from Monstro is, he's cooking dinner. Mom and I might actually get a couple of hours to watch Julie & Julia.

Happy Easter! Hallelujah, He is Risen! He is Risen, Indeed! Praise His Holy Name!

I love the Web site Awful Plastic Surgery — Anne turned me on to it years ago — and after seeing a picture of the “new-and-improved” Billy Crystal on Perez Hilton a few days ago, I sent the Webmaster a note: “OMG, have you seen Billy Crystal lately? What HASN'T the man done to himself?” Then today, I went to the site, and viola!!! Don't I just feel like a roving reporter.

It's been a while since I've been alone in the house for long enough to do one of these. Enjoy!