Busy Girl is 8th grade banqueted and graduated, and I contained myself at all events.

Though I do admit to having to listen to that damn (has sound, it's a song, and well, songs have sound...) Graduation (Friends Forever) song by Vitamin C a few times before both events to desensitize myself to it.

Anyway, both events were very nice, and all the kids looked so grown up.

Her diploma was misspelled (wouldn't that be funny if I misspelled "misspell"?), though. Oddly enough, it wasn't even our last name that was the problem.

I'm assuming the diploma was good and she didn't botch her exams, but we're getting a new one, anyway.

The girls had a gathering graduation night, and the whole class had a party last night where you may have been able to hear the sound of new relationships being formed all the way from your house.

The litany of "who's going out" increased forty-fold or something during those 3 hours.

Now, it's just weird that she doesn't have to go to school.

I keep trying to tell her to do her homework, and she keeps walking around like she's forgotten to do something.

Actually, she had to get up today and will have to get up tomorrow to do service hours for her Girl Scout Silver Award, so she's not really gotten to lounge around.

Oh, there's also basketball practice tomorrow night and a tournament this weekend, so that will keep her busy, which is fine by me since we (and by "we", I mean "she") took a brief detour from proper behavior which has since been resolved.

I was picking her and her friend up from the party last night, and I said, "Oh, weren't those some people you went to grade school with?"

Busy Girl: "Yeah, it seems like yesterday."

She got an iPod Touch for graduation and loves it.

I'm torn between, "Hey, cool, now I want one", and "Whoa, unsupervised Internet, how do I monitor that?"

It is quite nifty, though.

Hey, any of you that have one, what's the deal with the movies and some songs skipping?

I think it may be a Vista problem.

Any advice?

Reloading stuff doesn't make a difference, haven't tried synching with XP yet.

Anyway...

Busy D. had a soccer tournament during all the graduation hoopla, and they came in 3rd.

Meh.

Another team's coach cheated.

Oh, yes he did. SIX YEAR OLD soccer.

And? If you're reading and you know who I am, and you know who he is, you can tell him I said he's a redneck ass.

They had to stop the game one time because of his behavior. I called the league today to complain, but I suspect I'll have to get in line.

Oh, Busy D. lost his first tooth today! The Tooth Fairy had better remember to stop by here tonight.

Poor Busy Boy.

He's the only one left in the house with actual school.

Actually, I'm having a hard time remembering the boys are still in school, it'd be bad if I forgot to take them or something this week.

Busy Girl's out, kindergarten is still in, but they aren't doing much of anything and Busy Boy is in the middle of exams.

OK, I'm in the middle of exams as I chase him around the house to try to impart some knowledge on him.

Is a blessed wonder that that child's teachers don't drink heavily or haven't jumped out a window.

Just when things were settling down on the home front, I found out today I'll be working by myself since Busy Chatty Employee turned in her 2 week notice.

The timing? She is not so good.

I had eleventy million other things to tell you, but they just vaporized.

One was something about Sonic asking me if I wanted tomato on my BLT.