not-so-sticky

Kyrce and I battled some ugly weather on the ride home from USR. Actually, it was Kyrce battling, and me trying to think up something interesting to amuse her with. When you spend so much time in the car together, you tend to run through your more interesting stories quickly. I knew I was running out of stories, because in the morning, I started telling her a story which began, "I remember when I worked at Burger King in Texas..." If Kyrce had had coffee in her mouth at the time, it probably would have been all over the inside of the windshield. Yeah, I guess just the preface alone is pretty comical. I try to keep her entertained! By the time we got home through the slushy ice that night, I was just in time to kiss the babies goodnight and tuck them into bed. Usually, this is upsetting to me, but I was so exhausted from this rather long week that I was actually relieved, looking forward to sinking into bed as soon as I could. I felt like I hadn't seen much of Seth at all...

My mom just doesn't understand the concept of having my character auto-attack someone. It's not like my character will run up to every enemy he sees and attack it, as I still have to tell my character to attack it in the first place. And he'll only do physical attacks during this state of auto-attacking, nothing else. So it's alright to set my controller down while fighting bumblebees, but when I'm fighting more high-level creatures, such as Giant Enemy Birds, and I need to use special skills to kill them, just setting my controller down isn't going to cut it.

There is a room across the hall from mine that I would like to frequent far more often than I do. However, it's a room full of small chokey things and irresistible gadgets that I could not possibly bring Liam and escape with toddler unharmed. I remember the first time that Lily was allowed entrance to Seth's room for a brief moment. Upon entry, a loud and joyful 'ohhhhh!' came out of her little mouth. Older brothers are so awesome. They have the coolest things. It's only 7:16 PM, but everyone in the house was exceptionally sleepy so we retired upstairs even earlier than usual tonight. Dad is settled in (a long day he had...) and snoozing in the next room. Liam and Dana are sound asleep, and Lily is lying next to Dana now, mostly asleep but whispering things to herself. Instead of writing in my dark room of slumbering people, I am sitting across the hall in the secret retreat that is Seth's. Once Seth actually hid me in his room for awhile. The downstairs was jus...