Signs that you may be a parent: the ability to recite large chunks of Dr. Seuss books from memory.

Signs that you may be a parent: the possession of large numbers of Dr. Seuss books.

Something I want to exist: tiny padded manacles attached to the sides of changing tables, so that you can lock the toddler's arms more or less in place before you unfasten his diaper and his fingers beeline for his poop-smeared crotch, and then directly to his mouth ( Read more... )

Signs pointing the way, in all blunt honesty and with no trace of irony, toward Corpsewood Park.

I love these gruesome images.

Things that let you know you're a parent:

--the soft crump of Cheerios underfoot ( Read more... )

Things that are funny: when you've just typed your home phone number into the baby's playphone... and the phone actually rings.

(No, it wasn't him on the other end of the line. But still! ^_^)

Fun things: our house is three miles directly north of Disneyland. Both the shower room and the (currently nonfunctional) bathroom have south-facing windows. This means that if I time it right, I can watch the nightly fireworks while washing my hair and the rest of me ( Read more... )

Apparently OCTA has sold advertising space on the backs and sides of their buses to Scientology. I... am dubious about this. In so many ways. But I am also slightly amused: the pretty young woman in the ad picture looks like she was drugged for the camera. Truth in advertising?

So, while flipping through the Vogue Patterns catalogue at Joann's, I kept thinking to myself, "Hmm, that looks like something Pepper Potts would wear. And so does that. That one, too."

Eventually I realized, no, it wasn't just me being a geek. One of their models had pale red hair and a bone structure very reminiscent of Gwyneth Paltrow's.*

Things that have improved: SDCC's hotel reservation system. Now to wait and see if we actually got a room at any of the hotels we requested ( Read more... )

Things that irk me: in the writing class, we're supposed to have a max of seven submissions each week. And you're supposed to wait a week after your last submission before doing your next. So when I get to class and see nine submissions on the board, four of whom submitted last week (all longtime students who should know better), and Maralys ( Read more... )