I have been playing a really fun game for a whole week now. It’s called How Many Times Can You Lay Out Your Clothes On The Bed To Be Hung Up, Only To Return Them in Less Neat Piles Onto the Dresser When You Go To Sleep, Even Though You Expressly Put The Clothes On The Bed So That You Would Be Forced To Hang Them Up Before You Went To Bed?

I get extra points today for adding more clean laundry to the pile, with little or no hope of hanging them up tonight. Also a Bonus Laundry Round for having a preschooler in the house who is insisting on wearing underwear (yay in another catagory) while not being actually potty trained.

1. Good news: I bought 2 bras, on sale! Bad news: They were at Lane Bryant. sigh.

2. Did you know that it is not technically true that all snowflakes are different? In truth, snowflakes form in a specific order on a 200 year rotation cycle, in which they begin at Snowflake Pattern #1, proceeding numerically and, oddly, the cycle always ends in the February of a leap year.

3. The iced chai at Woodstar Cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts, is imported directly from heaven.

4. My friend Melissa was recognized on the street last night. It was exactly like being friends with Brad Pitt, but shorter, and with knitting.

Trader Joe’s Vanana yogurt + frozen mangoes + lightly freezer-burnt lemon Italian ice + big hunk of ginger + a blender = Best Frikin’ Smoothie You Have Ever Had, Son.

What is skin?

What does “elect” mean?

Do you need a boobie holder?

I never get time to prowl the internet the way god intended, but now that I have swallowed shards of glass and fairies have stolen my voice, I can fulfill my purpose.

Hot Naked Harry Potter (totally safe for work, ish)

and

Christ on a cracker, who on earth still gives a shit about Madonna?

Audrey is Obsessed with birds. It all started when she would yell from the backseat, “LOOK! Look, an eee-gle!” I would look, and there would be a pigeon pecking at some roadkill.  Innocently, and in the spirit of a Learning Moment, I attempted to educate my girl on the different types of birds. For a long while, there were only hawks or parrots.

But now. Now there are tufted nuthatches, thanks mostly to The Dover Little Activity Book Learning About Birds. Now I get to hear “facts” about birds all. the. time. Did you know the robin was the “youngest” bird? Or that woodpeckers go “peep peep peep”? Also, our yard, and most of the town, is lousy with American Goldfinches. Oh the American Goldfinch, how we do love thee. Let me go on and on.
Actually, it’s adorable, and I can see the geeky obsessions of the future looming in her tiny forming brain.  She loves to make up her own language, too. We often have coco-watay soup, and just now she is telling me she is “suppoint”. “It means, Mama, suppoint means I have to get out of the bathtub.”

Thus ends another blog post.

These high end window cling decor things are so extra awesome.  I love the designs, and how great are the ones for the door window with your street number on it?