bee and rose

There’s a new sheriff in town, folks. His name is Johnny Law AKA Johnny Blog-Law . He tried to shake me down a couple of times yesterday thinking I was mainlining via internet connection. He was wrong. I wasn’t doing the hard stuff. I was tokin’ on some Word…as in document…Word document. Incident #1 occured at 9:00 am…Johnny Blog-Law (you know him as Tween Caveboy) leaps in front of me and ‘my Precious’ (the laptop). “BUSTED!” he yells, hands drawn in the gun position. “Step away from the computer, Mom.” Not fazed, I calmly state that I want my attorney present before I agree to anything. “No can do, lady,” he laughs maniacally. “What exactly am I being charged with, Officer?” I challenge him with my evil stink-eye. “Blogging during school hours.” he stares at me disapprovingly. “You got any evidence, Officer?” I ask raising my one eyebrow at him. (This freaks my kids out that I can do the one eyebrow raise…) “Duh…you’re on the computer and it’s 9:00 am.” he smirks with confidence. “...

Rainy AZ day yesterday = fun family outing! Our mall is 35 miles away so we treat it as a roadtrip...roadtrip? whooo hooo! Fast forward to the mall...We walk into Hot Topic and my son heads for the band t-shirts. Cat and I stop up front to look at a pink(!) Domo plushie. Here's a picture of Domo...my kids love this freaky thing. I hear whispering and giggling coming from behind me. I look and there are 2 adult women ooohing and ahhing over in the Twilight section. Boy howdy! A Twilight section! Cat and I stroll over there. These ladies are gushing and drooling all over the place, and dare I say it? They have to be my age! (I'm 43) We start checking out the goods.... (Twilight band-aids...I'm buying these for my boo-boos and for when Edward Cullen comes to bite me...) (I'm getting this, stealing one of Cat's Barbies and pretend it's me and have a love fest with my Edward Cullen action figure...) (This poster is going on my ceiling...directly over my bed...) I...