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For the most part, no time to update. I haven't had enough sleep in a couple of weeks, I think, but I've lost track of exactly how long: this is the last day of baby-sitting and tomorrow I'm going to sleep until I wake up, possibly at 5 pm. Meanwhile

Carmela doesn't understand that adults don't have the magical power to control what comes on tv ("I don't want to change the channel, I just want a DIFFERENT KID MOVIE! I don't like this one!")

My ideas for stopgap coping measures with my MIL's tendency to a) babytalk, b) boss everyone around about everything no matter how nonsensical and c) randomly hate on America all the time... are getting increasingly wild, like "Threaten to bomb Finland" and "Claim that your parents' house is the size of the entire ground floor of her building with four apartments in it and that most Finnish bedrooms strike you as small for a bathroom - oh wait! That's true!" (Her main sources of complaint are that anything large is somehow morally wrong and, most recently, that the host of Extreme Makeover Home Whateverthefuck yells instead of talking and this is due to his Americanness and the only decent home makeover hosts are Swedish)

It's Midsummer Solstice this weekend, and I'm wearing over-the-knee socks and long sleeves under my jeans and hoodie, and a scarf around my neck.

I got white paint spots on my Nice Jeans yesterday D:

I spent 2 days trying to get hold of my parents before opening an email where kitten_head happened to mention they were visiting in Kansas! Uh? When I complained that nobody in my family had mentioned the trip, my Dad twitters (yes, my Dad is on Twitter!) "Anyway, I was checking my email the whole time." I didn't want email! I wanted to rant about MILs with my Mom!!!

How To Get Married in Iowa. A conversation with Brother Windows devolved into wild speculation about whether getting married would be the key to being treated as adult by the family, since it sort of worked for W's brothers, although naturally, we could just go and CLAIM to have gotten married. Apparently it would cost $30 and a 3-day waiting period (ie 2 day-trips to IA from KS 3 days apart, not a problem since we'll be there 2 weeks). Q: But isn't it rather tacky to come from out of the country for someone else's big wedding, and vanish for a day-trip to have a spur-of-the-mo Justice of the Peace thing? IDK.