Nothing interrupts lunch quite so abruptly as a training potty cup full of pee being delivered to the table by a proud three-year-old.

Okay, so I admit I'm watching AFI's questionable top 10 list from 10 genres. The Incredibles didn't come up at all in the animation category, and Finding Nemo was number 10. And Groundhog Day was one of their top 10 fantasy films. Huh. Anyway. So lots of the commercials have to do with movies, naturally, including Wall-e, which is the new Pixar ( Read more... )

I've been trying to read my gmail since last night, and for whatever reason it's not coming up. Grumble grumble grumble ( Read more... )

So, I've always been "one of the guys" ever since I started having guy friends. And I tend to get along better with guys--in general, that is--than I do with women. I was once told I "didn't count" as a woman, though, because of my being one of the guys ( Read more... )

Does it qualify as ironic that the National Geographic Channel just ran a program called Sweet Tooth, about how some favorite candies and confections (Peeps, Jelly Bellies, Twinkies) are made, and are following it with a program called The Science of Obesity ( Read more... )

Olivia has a pair of plastic binoculars that I picked up at a garage sale for a quarter, and she hasn't used them in a while, but it seems she rediscovered them today. On a related note, we feed the birds in our backyard--right now, mostly out of season color goldfinches, blue jays, cardinals, a variety of woodpeckers, and dark-eyed juncos, ( Read more... )

Check out the photos at www.potentiallynervous.blogspot.com and the ADORABLE bunny at http://www.photographyvoice.com/pv/potd/ViewPOTD.aspx?c=15123Read more... )

How to tell you've been wandering around Menard's too long:

The "save big money at Menards" song becomes "shave big monkeys at Menards" in your head.

Sometimes a space station is just a space station:

Olivia discovered our Babylon 5 micromachines yesterday and was holding the space station
like a cigarette. Then she picked up the Vorlon ( Read more... )

I'm an admitted bunny freak, so I'm probably biased, but this is also one of my favorite Stones songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUAbkRUvVQ

Courtesy of robertmapril, via lockholm, the meme/game is as follows ( Read more... )