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[altarflame]

This big dork personifies pubescent awkwardness, and I love her for it ♥ That's the caution tape we had blocking the redone driveway (some guys came knocking that they'd done other peoples' and had leftover materials so they'd do ours ultracheap) and a shirt she bought with her own money.

When she spotted that one in the pile at Hot Topic she was like, "Is that Lucius Malfoy?!" at first glance. Grant said, "That's Lucius Malfoy 1.0" and I laughed, remembering this:


The King (Elvis) has been making Isaac really happy keeping him company at night. The sling makes it harder for him to get to sleep so he ends up feeling alone after the other kids are down.

He's also had a lot of hunting to do...last week he brought me two dead palmetto bugs, and then woke us in the night...he'd knocked over a chair and was apparently playing with a SCREAMING mouse...I shook Grant awake telling him it sounded like someone had broken in and was robbing us with a rubber duckie, and he ran out to see what was going on.

Beautiful girl.


Our new ultrablack driveway is really awesome for my super fancy mail ordered ultra vibrant chalk. That is oily and messier than normal chalk. We came out and found them this way today.
















She was making iced tea to go with dinner, from some loose leaf blood orange tea, and kept finding bits of real peel that seemed to impress her.


I was making the rest of dinner. And having cinnamon cardamon tea with almond milk and lychee honey in it. It was SO YUMMY.


And Grant made this little table for Elise's Princess Palace. I had my doubts about where in the hell he was going to fit a TABLE, but he obviously had the concept well developed. She's getting a little chair to slide in under it tomorrow. The (sewn by Kristin) cat family is living under it for now.



I leave you with two AMAZING Florence and the Machine songs that Grant and I had left undiscovered on the CD for months because we didn't understand they have to be played LOUD. Seriously, if you are in a position to play something LOUD, try these :D

(Grant and I BOTH got speeding tickets in the van, separately, the other day, while blaring this damned song...so maybe listening to it up loud while driving it TOO good...)

And then this one was part of our "magical night" and just...I love this woman :D

I really cannot emphasize the LOUD part enough, though. There are Florence songs that sound great low but these aren't them.

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[(Anonymous)]

(some guys came knocking that they'd done other peoples' and had leftover materials so they'd do ours ultracheap)

Agh! I hope this actually was reliable contractors, but this is a well-known scam of the Irish Travelers, who are plentiful in the South especially...http://www.ehow.com/info_7811525_irish-traveler-scams.html

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

What these guys did couldn't really have been a scam, though...they fixed the driveway for the price I was quoted, you know? I mean beyond that I sort of don't care what there story is. It looks a lot better.

In that link it seems like the defining factor is a pricejack once they get started. They stuck to their price ($75), and hacked away all weeds, straighteneded edges, top and bottom and resurfaced (as well as filling in a hole).

I dunno, Grant Sr, when we lived with him, was offered something similar for way more and went with it and liked the results. In both cases the original bigger job was clearly visible down the street. *shrug*

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

They also took a check (that article says only taking cash is a bad sign). They were in unmaked pickups but that's pretty common for contractors around here. We talked about them pressure cleaning and resealing our deck in a couple of months and they seemed pretty honest, about how they haven't done decks before but have a pressure cleaner and could probably do a decent job.

[(Anonymous)]

If you got a business cared, you might want to check out the name of their company with the Better Business Bureau just to be on the safe side.

They could pull a scam next time, now that they have your trust. Or, they could be legit. Either way, doesn't hurt to check.

[poppleshatesyou.livejournal.com]

Beautiful kiddos!

I love love LOVE those two F&TM songs! LOVE THEM!

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

You know it's weird because I was drawn in by the singles (Dog Days and Kiss with a fist) but after listening for awhile I decided My Boys Builds Coffins and Rabbit Heart were SO much better - I thought they were my favorites on Lungs til I heard these. Now, after listening to these for awhile, I hear Dog Days and KWAF and just can't believe THOSE are the singles! I mean they're good for radio songs I guess but damn. So...diluted or weak or something.

[poppleshatesyou.livejournal.com]

Rabbit Heart is way up there on my favorite list. I pretty much love the whole album and just listen to it straight through. Which I love, that does not happen for me very often. I am usually much more a of pick and choose my favorites sort of album listener. I didn't even realize those were the radio singles, I don't listen to the radio very often, but it does seem like the chose some of her less intense songs. Silly radio.

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

I don't listen to the radio either, my friend David had heard those two, though, and told me he thought I'd like the group. I was hoping I'd find some awesome new stuff via Pandora by basing a station off Florence but at least the first time I tried it, it was just horrible.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Did Ananda do that chalk drawing? It is beautiful!

[altarflame.livejournal.com]

She did :) (Don't know why I phrased that wrong the first time...)

[heavynleigh.livejournal.com]

Drumming Song is my absolute favorite song right now. I totally have this made up music video in my head for it too.

[heavynleigh.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Annie's Labyrinth shirt is awesome! I think I need one.