Another Molly Milestone!

Today was the first time Molly has ever *asked* to go in to the Comic Book Store with me! Usually when we go to a comic book store she asks if she can just wait in the car with Mommy, because she knows that INSIDE the comic book shop I'll be full of "Quieter, honey" and "No no don't bend those sweetie" and "We look with our EYES not our HANDS dear" comments for her. This time I was prepared to just leave her in the car with her mother since I was just dropping in to see if they had IDW's "Angel: After The Fall" issue #14, but she very quietly and politely asked "Daddy can I please go in to the comic book store with you?"

She also picked out a comic book and "read" it to me on our drive home, describing the story based on what pictures she saw and laughing heartilly the whole time. Then she let me read the WHOLE COMIC BOOK to her at bed time, instead of what had usually happened in the past (I start reading, she gets bored a few pages in and asks if we can have a different story). She was enthralled with the whole book, cover to cover!

It was Boom! Studios "Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers" issue #5 (technically published by their All Ages imprint, "Kaboom Comics").

I think it may have been the best comic book I've ever read in my entire life :)

WELCOME TO MY SECRET CLUB!!!

I used to have all my Livejournal posts automatically cross-post to Facebook, but tonight I decided to drop that. Since the whole thing with my Dad having his stroke (OMH I FORGOT TO TELL LJ THAT MY DAD HAD A STROKE LAST WEEK), there are way too many family members watching and judging my every move over there.

So from now on, FaceBook and LJ will be seperate-but-equal parts of the Internet Mullet; Business up front (FB), Party in the rear (LJ)!

Maybe half of you who see my posts HERE are also friends on FaceBook. Let's just keep this our little secret, shall we? This will be my place where I can be inappropriate, rude, vent, yell, whatever. And you, my truested long-time LJ friends, will be the only ones to witness it!

Some things will still get cross-posted, but if they do it'll be on *purpose* instead of just automatically done for me.

I love and miss the freedom to write that LJ gives me! Freedom to expand! Freedom to be anonymous! Freedom to just be ME! I had forgotten how good it feels to just WRITE!

The post I made just a few minutes ago, the one about Molly's first comic book experience... I had finished writing it in just 3 lines because FaceBook has forced me to think like that. So I went back and filled in the details. Why was this important to me? How was this different? What did she get? These are the things I'll want to remember some day.

I hope I never forget that again.