all we have to do is be alive when it's over.

Okay. So you're a parent, and you write a to-do list on two different days. The list stays the same, however. It lists:

clean kitchen
start laundry (note "start" and not "do." Just start it)
grocery store for small stuff
exercise
make 3 phone calls

On one of those days, you sail through that list and by 10:30am, you're looking around thinking, "Now what am I going to do?"

On the other day, at 10:30am you amend the list. All it says now is, "Survive without bloodshed."

Today is one of the latter days.

here's your surreality for the day

He's trying to tickle me with a piece of rotini.

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The Zweeble is running around the house yelling, "Hey, Lauwa!"

He's pronouncing my name better than a lot of kids do--there's a tendency to get the L and the R reversed, so I'm Raula for a while. Best was still "Lauria," though.