My little brother congratulates me...

on my transition from woman-child to childish-woman via email.

"you have finally shed the husk of nymph-hood and pupated into a mature human.

Soon, you will have a thick wool cardigan, three snotty kids, and a suite of woodworking tools in your spacious garage.  You will need coffee and whiskey to live, and will find the mores of 19-year-olds offensive and baffling.  Your mandibles will grow heavier and sharper, sickle-like.  Your thorax will lose that glossy iridescent sheen common to immature specimens, darkening to a metallic bronze.

Congratulations on becoming an adult, big sister."

I have posted this without consent, for I do indeed have the largest mandibles in the family and my sibling should be grateful that I did not devour him as I did the others.

Paying for Parking

Eeee- we's so grown-up!

Our car was broken into!

Yesterday, actually.  And our stereo was stolen.  I didn't know that people stole those anymore, especially ones like ours where it cost way more to install than it did to buy...  Anyway, I'm particularly shocked that I don't feel violated or threatened.  I think it's because it wasn't just our car that was smashed and robbed, but one of six cars (all belonging to various neighbors of mine), it took away the sting.  So did the fact the this apparently happened to a bunch of people last week, and the week before that, and before that...

So (almost) needless to say we're now paying for a parking spot in a gated lot, that has a security guard.

And I would like to state for the record that our thief was very considerate and when s/he ripped the radio from the dash that s/he didn't damage the wires that control the AC.  They did a very good job.

Mondays...

Same fuckin' thing every Monday...