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GIRL:  Aww, Iggy is all fuzzy faced, look!  (shoves large cat in my face)

ME:  Eww, he just farted, get his stink away from me.

GIRL:  That's just his "Hi-I-just-woke-up-play-with-me fart."

ME:   Oh really?

GIRL: Yes, I can read his farts. I'm a Fart Whisperer.

Merriam-Webster has announced the Word if the Year for 2007. You'll never guess what it is.




Another overheard from last night. Driving around Greenville looking at Christmas lights with three teenage boys while listening to Dethklok, I noticed how you could interchange the word ROFLcopter for Hatredcopter ... and I sang it  that way, loudly, much to my boy's chagrin and the other boys delight. The night just got sillier from there.

FRIEND: "Your mom is so cool."

SON: *rolled eyes*

Oh, and NO sleep was gotten but MUCH Guitar Hero was played. I went downstairs to play Beautiful Katamari at about 5:45, hoping the soothing music would put them to sleep. They are snoring away now.

"All I wanted was a brownie, and you wouldn't give it to me!! *SHANK*"

                                                ~Charlie, 15, a guest at the boy's 16th birthday overnighter

"Rashaad, back up! You're in my bubble, man!"

-DJ, 1st grader defending his personal space.

"I have a black belt in crazy!"
                       -Rachel (14)