My niece said a million cute things throughout the day here, and I really wanted to post some of them tonight, but of course I'm drawing a blank now.

I'm down in South FL at my mother's for the weekend, after a grueling 6-plus hours-of-heavy-traffic drive last night, in which I witnessed at least three accidents (one right in front of me that was really bad and I had to go off the road completely to avoid it), in a drive that should be maybe four-and-a-half to five hours long. Apart from the accidents, there were some really meaneyhead drivers on the road, too, including one pickup truck that rode my tail as soon as he got on the highway, considering that everyone was already going about twenty over the limit and there was nowhere I could go and nothing I could do to get out of his way.. so I tapped my brakes to signal him to back off, and instead he turned on his brights and left them on for at least half a mile, probably more than a mile. And then the jerkhead got off at the next exit! I was so frustrated. But I made it here safely (somehow) and don't have to drive but so far again 'till Monday.

We had Thanksgiving dinner here today, my mother and her partner and some of their friends, and then my older brother and niece came over after John got off work this evening. He has to work tomorrow, too, so he left around 9 or so and there were some adventures trying to get Sloane asleep. I think she is now, though. We're crashing together tonight, she and I, so I really hope that she sleeps well and doesn't kick me off the bed as many times this year as she did last. She's going to be four in December and apparently that means that she already IS grown up, but not a grown-up adult, just a grown-up girl.

I'm about to pass out here, and we've gotta go visit Gramps and Gramma Jan tomorrow with the Sloaners, so I'd better get going. Need to iron my uniform for the showing-off session then, too. And stuff.

G'night.