who knew this barrel of laughs would be a powder keg?

Let's see. Anything new and interesting? Not especially, I'm just bored, mostly. Mom came to Deadwood on Saturday to hang out with me and some people from her leadership group after she "drug me around town before dropping me off at work" as she said to her group. I won $10 at 3 Card Poker, which is impressive, since I wasn't entirely sure what to do at first, having only played once.

Today was a beautiful day and Aaron and I went to the City Park here in Spearfish and took a walk around the D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery and the park to see what all they had re-done since the last time we'd been there. It was so warm outside, and since it was a weekend, everyone was out with their puppies and babies and small children darting about into traffic.

Small children are weird, scary, and a little gross. No, change that; mostly gross. I watched a daddy give his little girl a drink of his Propel Fitness Water bottle today, and as she slurped and drooled all over it, I shuddered. Gross. That's all they do mostly, drool on stuff and get their little germies everywhere. Actually, parents give their children the germies by sharing foods and drinks and silverware with them, not the other way around. Apparently babies are sterile in that sense when they're born, and the parent gives them those germs. Gross.

And kids are just loud and stompy and demanding and drooly. If I wanted to hang out with people like that, I'd go to the bar and talk to the drunks. At least you don't have to change diapers that way. Usually.

Aaron and I are still trying to narrow down where we want to live when we grow up. We've got some states weeded out, but there's still plenty of places to choose from. We just need to print a map for each of us, then decide where we'd not want to live, compare, and find the states we BOTH wouldn't mind living in. It's a start. Except my printer is out of ink, and I don't want to buy a cartridge for $20-30 just for that. I could get a whole new (cheap) printer for that much money WITH an ink cartridge in it!

Well, I really didn't have much to say, I just realized that I hadn't posted in about a week and thought maybe I should while I was up and about. Auf Wiedersehen!