All right, it's final on who goes with Mom! Me, Owen, and Lark! Pity about Owen, but I suppose it can't be helped. Mom hasn't made it public yet, possibly putting off the fight with Dad, who always wants her to take Special Agent Doug. ’-’ But I'm happy, anyway. And Owen's going to do a positive happy dance. I can picture it now....-_-

Possibly going to town on Tuesday to get Lark a new crate. Old one's outgrown.

Library intake cut down to a book a week, Mom having thrashed the issue out with Dad. Geh. Dad and the younger boys just spent the afternoon fixing the sump pump; Christy looks pregnant again, going to offer to help whenever; trying to sell the kittens on Craigslist. Lots of replies, no takers yet. Got caught up to One Piece, reading Fairy Tail, in a shounen mood. Doug started a Manga-U account at last, too keep track of his manga. He hasn't started sorting into "Ongoing" and "Completed" yet, though. Says he'll do that once everything's up. So, for instance, Tokyo Crazy Paradise and Trigun are both on the "reading" list. Wonder if he'll do the wish list too....

Dad's taking up deep-fry cookery. He makes mean fried chicken, and the potato chips weren't bad.

We're all worrying about Baron. He's beginning to be a problem. For one thing, he mounts Lark a lot, and he's starting to mark when she pees. In short, he's a Very Bad Dog. We're going to have to do something before she comes into heat.....

Lark is beginning to seem large, especially when I pick her up: she's tripled in weight since she was a fuzzy little eight-pound puppy with a blunt nose. Mom still hasn't decided who's going with her when she goes to Co. between quarters, but if I go so will Lark. Exciting. Which brings me to this: next quarter Mom's teaching three classes, three days a week, and she's going to be so swamped with papers that she's paying me a dollar per paper for preliminary correction. Yaaay! I've been suggesting I do that for months, but nobody ever said anything about money.

Currently reading Patricia McKillip and Elizabeth Peters: polar opposites, but they both have style. Patricia McKillip does fantasy, and Peters is a mystery queen who used to be a major Egyptologist--which would, of course, explain why her biggest series is Egyptological. Peters is beginning to lose me, and I'm running out of McKillip, so it's a good thing I can get Chalice on Friday if we go to town. Please, please please please.......