Is my 11 year old allowed to go to dances? I’m not sure if I’m allowed to allow my 11 year old to go to dances! They have dances for 11 year olds? Did I go to dances when I was 11? Why do I hear my sister’s laughter reverberating in my hollowed out skull?

Kristen is attending a dance at the local community center tomorrow. She was asked by a girlfriend of hers, but apparently this prompted the need to go shopping. Michelle and Kristen packed up the car and left me to handle all the dinner dishes. Honestly! I had to load the dishwasher all by myself; I even unloaded it first! As proved by science, guys don’t know where all the dishes go, so there is currently a single cupboard that I don’t want to be around when Michelle opens it purely for safety reasons…My own!

Yeah! They went shopping, and once they came back, Kristen disappeared for a moment to change into her choice of dance wear to model it for me. I wish I would have taken a picture because, oh my gosh, did she ever look beautiful. For some odd reason, the first thing I though of when she showed it to me was Amy Lee, but not as goth. Whatever! Maybe it was a poor first thought, but Kristen pulled it off.

Strange, though, as she has no interest in dancing with boys. I look forward to hearing how the evening went.

Something occurred to me while watching an almost-great episode of Jericho last night; I haven't drawn Dan leaning against a building corner seeming disheveled while looking impatiently at his watch for such a long time, so I picked up my pencil, and a couple of minutes later:



Once again, it’s just a quick and dirty sketch, but it just kind of drew itself. Y’know! Using my hands and coordination. It also occurred to me that tomorrow means one month till the premiere of Take It Like A Husband. Hmmm! I don’t really feel panicky, but I do have this shooting pain running up and down my left arm…