Yesterday we went on a shopping extravaganza. We had to find Al some clothes to wear for his senior pictures. And we did! We got him two pairs of pants, and two pretty shirts. He even agreed to buy jeans. He's turned out to be an excellent little shopper.

I wasn't quite as successful, but I did find a candle that smells like grass, and the freaking coolest notebooks in the world. My math notebook comes with a protractor/ruler, and multiplication table, formulas, pretty much everything we learned in pre-calc. My science one has a protractor/ruler, periodic table, temperature/weight conversions, bio cheat sheet, and graph paper in the back! And my english one has commonly mispelled words, gramar rules that we didn't even learn in high school all kinds of good stuff. I'm in love with these notebooks.

And I'll leave you with an amusing story out of the times:
LITTLE ROCK Ark. - A trucker claims the spanking left him with a badly bruised behind, but the three exotic dancers who were paid to paddle the birthday boy are saying they're innocent.

Kelly Eslick,21 and Lisa Nolen and Charlene Smith, both 23, appeared Thursday in court to dace felony charges of participating in an obscene performance and misdemeanor batterycharges. Lowery's friends paid $25 for the spanking as part of Lowery's 31st birthday celebration. Lowery said that hes was handcuffed and spanked with a 3-foot-long paddle and a belt while one of the strippers restrained his head with her leds. He saide he suffered bruises so severe he was unable to sit comfortably for five days.

"And I'm proud to be an American"?