beavers lawn crayons steam

Daniel swam up from Beavers to Cub today. And we registered Justin for Beavers next September.

My boys. They're so big.

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Volunteering in Justin's class tomorrow, then going to Guy's to mow his lawn.

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Painter-dude coming in tomorrow to take a look at our house and give us an estimate. It'll be odd to have walls with no peeling patches, crayon scribbling, or toy-hammer-induced-pockmarks. It'll be like we're grown-ups or something.

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You know, it's odd, I can never decide which is funnier: well-written on-purpose badfic, or the accidental kind. On-purpose provides more consistent laughs per paragraph, but the accidental kind has the same charm as improv: the beauty of spontaneity. Plus, of course, there's the horror factor. I may still cringe at Alisia D. Crede's "ravished Lennie's mouth with his tongue" and "roiling sea of orgasmic bliss", but the painful beauty of the phrase "the proof of his desire rising through the steam" is just that much more acute because it was actually meant to be arousing.

psst!

Happy birthday, snarkhunter!!

oh enough already

Another day, another freak-out.

Daniel's behaviour at school is getting worse, and I'm wondering if maybe home schooling should start now instead of September.

Will have to talk to Chris about this.

::sound of many held breaths being let out::

The combined block of Liberals, NDP and Carolyn Parrish carried 152 votes, the same number as the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois.

That left Independent MPs David Kilgour and Chuck Cadman to swing the result.

Kilgour followed through on a pledge he made publicly just hours earlier, voting for the budget, but against the additional spending package.

Cadman, however, voted with the government. Speaker of the House Peter Milliken was left to make the final, deciding vote in favour of the government.

The vote carried 153-152, meaning the Liberal government will stand, for now.

( Liberals survive budget vote squeaker )

Link to the story on CTV.ca