I'm not sure how I ended up discussing my cat's tapeworm with my hairdresser today. Probably the same way parents end up talking about their baby's bodily functions. Yikes.

To be added to the list of "Stupid Names People Give Their Kids":

• Genevie

No, not "Genevieve," which seems to me a perfectly pretty name. Genevie. Yeah.

Poor girl is going to have her name misspelled and mispronounced for her entire life. :/

Things I have done today:

• baked cookies as payment for my friend Roger's plumbing skills. (For the record, I was a flower girl in his wedding and his wife's like a big sister to me, so he's that kind of almost-family grown-up friend who I can call for this kind of household problem.)
• aimed a flashlight under my sink for ~2 hours while he tried to ( Read more... )

I have very little voice. What I have is very hoarse and husky-like, and probably an octave lower than normal. Why? Well, I'll tell you ( Read more... )