Mary had a great time with the sleepover…pizza, innocent (thank god) nine-year old girl gossip about boys, and staying up way too late. And, since it’s our house, I DM’d a session of Faery’s Tale (a very rules-light pen & paper RPG aimed at younger kids) for the girls, who had lots of fun pretending to be a pack/flock/herd/whatever a group of feyfolk are called of faeries rescuing some magical animals from a travelling sideshow and outsmarting bridge trolls.

It’s still really, really hot. The new heat pump/central air system won’t be going in until Friday, so we have to make it through another couple of days of discomfort (and hopefully, no more dead fish – lost another one this weekend). To cope in the meantime, we’re drinking lots of fluids, wearing as little clothing as we can get away with, and coming up with all kinds of excuses to get out of the house as much as possible.

For one of those excuses, Andrew and I ventured out to see “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the CG gopher reaction shots Crystal Skull”, which wasn’t at all bad; not “Raiders” good, but maybe almost “Last Crusade” good, except for the occasionally jarring CG where it didn’t really belong. While Andrew didn’t feel like doing another segment of “Andrew’s Movie Reviews”, he admitted to having a really good time with it, even if he turned away at a few “scary parts”.

To complete the “one paragraph per child” allotment I seem to have subconsciously adopted here, I can report that Catherine decided that this was her week to start exercising some independence and testing boundaries by getting into things that she probably shouldn’t. We’ve gotten a lot of extra practice snapping off the firm “NO!”, which mostly seems to be working.

Until next time, keep cool!