There are reasons I brushed my teeth in the bathtub

1. It's fun.


2. It takes me back to college when all my toiletries were in a shower caddy.


3. It makes Chuckles brush his teeth.


4. My bathroom is a construction zone.

How is this possible?

I have no ground beef in the house at all. I have a deep freezer in the basement. I guess taco night will turn into steak or chicken fajita night since I know I have those.

By the way, last Saturday was Letter Carrier's Food Drive day. I gave away four cans of refried beans and two boxes of vegetarian meat substitute along with a jar of olive tapenade and some poppy seed pie filling and four cups of sugar-sweetened apple sauce. Random times. Random. Imagine the meal someone will make out of that.

$3.47

per gallon for gas. I get about 20 mpg. I drive about 3-5 miles for each nap. Let's say 5 miles. So, in a seven day week, I drive 35 miles for naps. So, I spend about a dollar a day (a little less). So worth it. If I drank Starbucks, I'd be willing to give it up to pay for nap. I love nap.

When we don't get nap, Mr. Long-Suffering comes home from work to find me crying, with a migraine, reaching for a beer. I need nap.

Rudy Guiliani

He said that he personally is opposed to abortion, but that he belives that other Americans with good conscience could make other choices and that it's not government's job to decide what is best for people. I ...heart... Rudy (on this topic).

All Hail the White Truck of Joy

My new dryer came. I can wash towels again. Well, I will be able to once my husband hooks the dryer up, but we're closer.

SoCraftiCarrie

So, in my spare time, I paint onesies for the babies of our friends. It's my creative outlet, I suppose.

I bought about 5 packages of onesies and some paint when my sister was pregnant and made the shower guests decorate them. Some were good, some notsomuch, but since they are undershirts, all that matters is the love. I try to make mine neat, clever, and legible. I think I do OK. But it had been a few months since I pulled the paints out and I had a couple of misfires, so definitely not my best work, but not too bad at all. If you have a baby, maybe I'll make some for you.

How I spent my Monday

The photos are called "Before, During, After, and Three and a Half Minutes After We Started". I'm pretty sure his favorite part was washing his hands after we were done.

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy

From the mis-heard lyrics file...

Golden Earrings's (also covered by White Lion) "Radar Love" says:

Radio plays a forgotten song

Brenda Lee's "Coming on Strong"

According to the True Oldies Channel, which is preset number 5 on my car radio, Brenda Lee was immortalized in that song, and yet, no one still knows the song. I heard the song on the radio the other day, and I am telling you there is a reason no one remembers it. It's just not good. The 50s and eary 60s must have been an awful time for music because it's just plain bad. She was one of the most popular recording artists in the era (#4 behind Elvis, Ray Charles and The Beatles). This is the same era of music that had Lawrence Welk topping the charts with polka, so that that with what you will.

Anyway, about the mis-heard lyric. For years (years!) I have been thinking that "Radar Love" says something like "Radio plays a forgotten song/Revelie's coming on strong" or "Ramblings coming on strong". So, now you know.

Spring Breezes

are drying my laundry outside.

Life is Good (in two parts)

Our next door neighboor gave Chuckles a bird feeder for his birthday. It's a feeder where the birds eat upside-down (see photo). I'm trying to figure out what kind of birds they are but I can't decide if they are chickadees or goldfinches. If you know, please tell me.

I spent a long time trying to get these photos today with the camera on max zoom through the dining room window (the haze is the dirt on the window...I can't help it, I clean these windows twice a week and then Hurricane Chuckles comes along with a graham cracker/goat milllk paste and the windows are all smeared again...or lately, he's been asking for "triangle chips" which are cinnamon things I made using Carly's recipe...a recipe which I give out frequently as it is so easy, but don't tell anyone).

Our shirts say "Half Full". Mine is a cup (of milk, if you ask Chuckles...something else if you ask me), his is a sippy cup. Shirts courtesy of Jenn.

You can shop for your very own Life is Good clothing at http://www.lifeisgood.com/ Jenn probably won't buy it for you.

Blog Notes

If you look over to the right, you see there is a link to Julia Here Be Hippogriffs. Well, she's this lady named Julia Litton. Oh just go here to Redbook magazine where she is now featured (but I knew her when).

Anyway, her husband has mutant sperm that cause defects to the fetus that are incompatible with life. She's had something like 14 miscarriages and one perfect live son, Patrick. She keeps moving forward trying to have another baby because as she says, the pain of not having another child is greater than the pain of continuing to miscarry. Well, the news is, she is pregnant, again. They did genetic testing (PGD) with IVF this time, so ostensibly, the embryo is genetically normal, but PGD is still somewhat experimental with these kinds of genetic problems, so it's possible she will miscarry again, but heck, maybe not! And that's optimism.

I am going to buy this

I believe I mentioned I will never travel without the crib again. Never is such a strong word. I am going to experiment with this Amazon 5-star rated bed at home and if it works, I will travel with it.

I currently have a bid out on a Winnie the Pooh inflatable travel bed. I am the current high bidder but there are still 2 days left on the auction so I doubt I'll win, but if I do, I won't be buying the bed from amazon, so wish me some kind of luck. I don't know if I want to win or if I want the Aero Bed. Decisions!

SarcastiCarrie now $aving you more

Sign up for 10% off coupons from lowe's and home depot (very useful for me right now since the dryer died and I am gutting my bathroom...new dryer being purchased tomorrow on the Discover card where I can get double cash back on Maytag).

http://www.lowesmoving.com/register/step2.asp
http://www.homedepotmoving.com

I'm looking for Menards too, but I don't see one for them (it'd only be good on tube socks and BBQ sauce any way).

Info on Discover card:

http://www.discovercard.com/discover/data/cashback/?icmpgn=200512_dc_bn_hk_drplnk_rwd_nap_rdm_1

The Election was Cancelled due to Lack of Interest

I went to vote on Tuesday, but the whole place was not a polling place. It was just a school on a Tuesday and the lady at the front desk of the school told me it wasn't even election day (oh, I beg to differ, ma'am). I called the Board of Election. The election in my ward was not being held as the only candidates on the ballot were running unopposed. I still thought you at least had to have the election (like when Saddam was "president" and used to say that 100% voted for him).

Chuckles is now officially Two

As of Saturday, I have a 2-year old in teh house. There was a party with cake and ice cream, singing, presents, pinata. All the stuff that there should be. It was good. Even I can't complain about anything, so that means it must have been pretty good. It's a shame it was so short, but with naps and everything, I couldn't very well have it much longer. Actually, I could have started it earlier, but people are always late to parties anyway (so Annoying).

Red Alert - No Nap Yesterday

If we have a repeat, I think I am going to quit this job.

My Dryer Died (RIP 1969-2007)

And there was a load in teh dryer and one in the washer, so I just finished hanging up two loads of laundry.

Unfortuantely, there are three loads waiting to be washed, so I think I am going to ask my backyard neighbor if I can use his line until I get a new dryer.

I have 80 of my very own clothes pins (all currently in use plus clothes on hangers and draped over the ironing board). Each sock and pair of underpants needs its own pin, so what do you do? And the towels will be so stiff, but whatever. It's better than mildewing the clothes or trying to keep Chuckles entertained at the laundromat.

A year ago today

I had my appendix removed. I don't miss it at all.

I always think of Carly when

I make cinnamon-sugar covered tortillas and today I made them. Thinking of you.

Notice

According to a sign at my grocery store, Monster energy drink is no longer covered under the food stamp program. Please make a note of it.