Does Not Follow Instructions Well

Sign on my father's hospital room door:



Conversation between BI'75 and our mother:

BI'75: (Upon Mom's arrival in Dad's hospital room after riding public transportation) Did you wash your hands yet?
Mom: I washed them at home.

To-Do List for CA

We are heading to CA to visit Baby Darwin (and his parents, too, I guess). I see our visit going something like this:

1. Arrive at Darwin's house
2. Cursory greetings to Darwin's parents
3. Knock parents to ground
4. Hold Darwin until BI'75 tackles me like a rugby player
5. Scheme ways to get Dawin away from BI'75
6. Outlet shopping
7. Fighting over baby
8. Wine drinking
9. Fighting over baby
10. Return to DC

Sounds like a pretty good vacation!

Writers Strike Over!

I think these four young Tennesseans express my feelings on the end of the writers strike through bells better than I ever could in words.

Speak English

To paraphrase 3YO, "No, you speak English."

Now, while this does make my skin crawl, it is not one of my absolute pet peeves. That is a tie between "anyways" and "her and I." I have a visible physical reaction when I hear someone utter those phrases. My mom can't stand "if it was me," something I am guilty of saying. What are your grammar grievances?

Bippity Boppity Bacon

According to Jim Gaffigan, if you sprinkled Bac-Os^® on top of bacon, you could travel back in time. I wonder what he would think of chocolate bacon?

The Littlest Consumer

Because American kids aren't fat, greedy or lazy enough, ads soon to be placed on school buses.

The First Rule of Book Club

BI'75 likes to say that the first rule of Book Club is that you don't talk about Book Club. When she says that, I think she has images of us bludgeoning each other with that month's pick. The actual first rule of Book Club is that you have to admit when you didn't read the book (a rule that Bi'75 has to fulfill quite often).

I started Book Club with C and M1 over two years ago after C and I met at a bar to discuss Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We decided we wanted a Book Club where people could be introduced to books they might not otherwise have read. So far I've gotten everyone to read a graphic novel, a (liberal) Republican has rethought the war in Iraq and everyone has decided that Philip Roth is a mysoginistic pig-man.

I've changed the "books e read" to "e read for book club" because a. I read too many damn books to list and b. it's interesting to see the evolution of our choices and who picked what. The list is in order from most recent to least recent and the preceding inital represents who chose it. There are two ladies whose names begin with "m;" the numeral is who chose first, not who is more awesome because, really, how could I choose that.

Week Links

Catch up on Lost at Lostpedia
Things my two-year old daughter taught me… [WalletPop]
Kitty Monkey Dog Bear??? [CuteOverload] (It’s my house bear!)
Beehives: Beauty Trend 2008 [Budget Fashionista] (I long to achieve volume of this…volume)
Pocket-sized portable power [PopGadget]
National Zoo Can Has [sic] a Baby Elephant? [DCist] (It’s my house elephant!]
Two very cool shops (as seen in Lucky)...Reform School Rules and REMO General Store
HI-YAH KARATE CHOP! [CuteOverload] (Another house bear?)