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- Last night I dreamed that the elementary school where Julian goes declared all future Thursdays as "Emilio Esteves Thursday." Everyone was genuinely excited about it, and I was the only one who was very confused.

- In a separate dream last night, we went to the beach and stayed in a cute but skank-ish beach motel, and our entire family got lice. I don't even know what lice look like in real life, but in my dream, they were like the fattest fleas you could imagine. And they were all in our hair. I woke up extremely itchy and upset, and my dream abruptly ended at the part where I was freaking out and demanding that we get our money back from the hotel and be compensated for lice treatment. Heh.

- Audrey talks a lot now, about things I didn't even realize she was aware of. This morning, she walked into my bathroom and peeked at the floor where the edge of the cabinet meets the tile, then looked up at me and said, "dirty!" Well.

- Julian is turning 8 at the end of the month, and has asked for a Harry Potter birthday cake. Specifically, Lego Harry Potter. And he wants it to be 3D, so I need to get cracking on making some marshmallow fondant, dyeing it, and molding it into little Lego people so it has time to dry and won't fall apart. Last year, he got totally hosed because we had just gotten robbed and were living with friends until our broken doors and windows could be replaced, and I didn't have access to all my fun baking stuff. So I really want this year to be special for him. Remember the Yellow Submarine cake of his sixth birthday? I want it to be that kind of awesome.

- I'm growing out my pixie hair because I decided that deep down, I really want mermaid hair. This means that I have entered the Bieber phase of hair growth, and must wear a hat pretty much all the time to cover the Bieberness.



- Also, hi. I have a lot of moles.