The Mario Bros:

…and their stash:

I don’t know why I’m still awake…. omigod it’s been a long day.

Two weeks ago, to the minute, we were on a plane headed to California. We visited Disneyland and the beach… I loved seeing the kids’ faces as they took in every bit of it. There are many photos to upload; I’ll get to it eventually. The trip was fun and exhausting in all the right ways.

I did a really not smart thing and scheduled oral surgery for the day after we returned from CA. Which basically means that last week was a waste– I didn’t accomplish much and it feels like I might not ever catch up with all that needs done.

Yesterday I had a random craving for Ovaltine. I blame the circa-2000 Crackmonkey. I’m not actually sure I’ve ever even tasted Ovaltine. Maybe?

Josh is next to me on the sofa, playing Capsella with Max & Khai and explaining the finer details of motors, engines, electricity, magnets, etc. He’s so good at explaining the technical things without dumbing it down too much– it’s truly a talent to make it such that kids easily grasp these concepts. Me? No such talent. I can get really messy with the arts & crafts, though! Oh, and I make really good cake.

Found, scrawled in a months-old notebook full of scribbles and to-do lists:
Bacon had never gone so wrong.

I have no clue! Words and phrases are always popping into my head, and I tend to write them down. I have pages upon pages filled with doodles and squiggles, faces and geometric patterns, haphazard words and one-liners. Occasionally, I find something poetic or witty, but mostly it’s just weird and random. It’s always fun to flip through them, though. It’s like a slice of life at that moment in time– the to-do lists are perhaps a better record of my life than my oft-ignored journal. But the journal? It’s searchable. Nice for those moments when I can’t remember what month or year XYZ happened.

Happy stuff: Tetris for DS, talking with Jenny on the phone, Feist on Letterman.

Oh! Today I had an olfactory hallucination. It smelled cold, like winter, like it was snowing outside. That was fun. Have I mentioned that insomnia has been visiting a lot lately? Insomnia is mean. She talks too loudly and makes me kind of jumpy. She’s a bad influence.