Monthly Archive for December, 2008
Early Christmas post I know but we do our celebrating early in the day, pre-nap. By 2pm we’ve eaten ourselves into a vegetative state, and this is why:
Chef Bob spent days in the kitchen cooking up Beef Borginon (?), quiche, pies, breads. cookies, chichen, rice pilaf, roasted vegetables, and croissants. Almond and chocolate croissants of all things! It was ridiculous. And wonderful. Also I want to throw up a little bit now because five hours later I am STILL stuffed.
And now for some gratuitous gift shots:
Another espresso, Hef?
Shoooooes, Gromit!
A Very Happy Mike.
He, he, he. Snicker. GRANDMA.
Hats! Thanks Rosie!
So there ya go. Good times. Merry Mas-Mas everyone!
On a cold, overcast day last week I gave my kids a little diversion… something I remember loving when I was a kid… tiny capsules full of dinosaurs!
You put them in water and magically a dinosaur sponge 500% the original size emerges! Of course 500% the original size isn’t NEARLY as impressive as you would think.
It took all I had to keep the kids from eating them but they really did enjoy how they started dissolving and trying to guess what kind of dinosaur would come out. First up:
Pterodactyl! Pretty cool dino action! We had high hopes for what was next and it turned out to be…
A shark. Interesting. Kind of a stretch but okay. Let’s see what else they got.
Now this one really doesn’t make sense. This is more like the “Evolution” Growing Capsules set than “Dinosaurs.” Maybe China is secretly trying to stick it to Kansas and their Creationist beliefs. Moving on.
Oh COME ON. A PINK KITTY CAT? This is really starting to get out of hand. Now they just aren’t even trying.
The last few were actually some kind of large fish, a whale and a T-Rex. At least we got one other dinosaur! Well that and a good blog post.
There is a song stuck in my head and I can’t seem to shake it. It is there while I’m cooking, driving, taking a shower, nursing Zoey at 5:30am… It is Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl.” The lyrics are so stupid and honestly, borderline offensive, but it rocks so hard that I can’t seem to get away from it. Dang, looks like I’ll be buying another mp3 from Amazon.
And Mike… well, Mike’s new obsession is a little less conventional than mine. He’s started to play the didgeridoo. THE DIDGERIDOO. Oh good, I always wanted to feel more like I was in an Outback Steakhouse commercial and now I can. Crikey!
Here it is in all it’s glory… my 12″ Powerbook. It has been so good to me but alas it is aging. I wouldn’t mind replacing it with one of the lovely HP’s!
(Check out this contest over at Gear Diary… Wowie!)
