DH should be on the ground in Seattle in four more hours, hooray!

Today hasn't been quite as frazzling an experience in single parenthood as yesterday was, though we had a bit of a battle of wills just now over naptime. Thing is, I don't think she's sleepy--I'd outgrown naps by her age, and she only naps maybe one afternoon in four. But I want to give her the space to sleep if she is tired and also to keep her schedule reasonably consistent. (They have naptime after lunch at daycare, and Annabel knows if she doesn't sleep she has to sit on her mat and look at books quietly.) Anyway, today I had to drag her upstairs and then put her back in her room three times before she got the message that she couldn't wheedle or cry her way into getting to stay downstairs and either watch TV or solve her new puzzle again. And it sounds like she's finally playing quietly, so I can relax.

MonsterHoodies!!

MonsterHoodies is run by Jen Dunlap and Zach Smith. We both live in NYC, and we love things that are disgustingly cute. MonsterHoodies started as a fun weekend project when we decided that our hoodies were just too boring. We wanted to liven them up a little bit, and we came up with the idea of making them look like animals. Specifically, we wanted them to look like scary (but cute!) monsters.

We originally made these hoodies for ourselves, and wore them around proudly. Almost immediately people were asking where we got them. We told people that we made them for ourselves, and they were amazed. Lots of our friends wanted them, but living in the city, we didn't have enough time to make hoodies for all of them. Since some smart dude invented money millions of years ago, we decided that we could trade our valuable time making hoodies for cool green dollar thingies.

Ahrg. Awful problem from last week persisting. Make it stop!!

US President George W. Bush (C) leans over to talk with a girl (R)

OK, I love that girl's expression. But I really love the fact that the captioner explained which was the white man and which was the black girl!

I don't have anything in the house I'm going to want to eat for dinner. I guess I could take the buger patties and turn them into chili, but I don't think I have the kind of tomatoes I like to use! Hmph. I'm really trying not to order pizza, but now that I'm home, I'm not going to want to run out for a slice, either! First world problems.

Oh, thank goodness. I just remembered I emailed that report, instead of mailing it. So I had an attachment copy saved, and I was able to just restore it from there. Whew.

sarameg, insent to your gmail.

My cat threw up on our tax forms. The ones our accountant drew up. The ones with our W2's attached.

Good thing I'm in a good mood.

My cat threw up on our tax forms. The ones our accountant drew up. The ones with our W2's attached.

Good thing I'm in a good mood.

Yeah, cats just think we can abolish the IRS....

& replied, lisah.

The problem with curiosity is that you end up finding problems you just would never have known about and they become this Whole Big Thing.

Why am I cursed with "Hmm, that's weird, I wonder why..."?

It rarely ends well.

Oh, thank goodness. I just remembered I emailed that report, instead of mailing it. So I had an attachment copy saved, and I was able to just restore it from there. Whew.

That is a big whew! I hate when I do that, which is more often than it should be.