That’s N in the back there, washing dishes.
- It sounds like a sick ward in my office — everyone is coughing and hacking.
- Maybe I’m getting sick? Maybe that explains the crabby attitude and desire to be asleep?
- I guess I have to get pumpkins this weekend and carve them. How can this have crept up on me? I am so happy that I will not be staying up til midnight sewing a fairy princess costume.
- If I were a large landform, like a hill or something, I would turn over now and go back to sleep.
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I just bought pumpkins yesterday because J wals in a dither. Now…she doesn’t even want to carve hers until the weekend. Sigh.
Maybe she just wanted to be sure to have them.