Annabel was fuzzy-headed for the first few months, but then quickly grew lots of hair. I once had another mother ask me, apparently in all seriousness, how I got her hair to be so thick. I can't remember what I said, though I wish I'd either said, "DNA," or, "Why, I've been rubbing her scalp with Rogaine since we brought her home from the hospital."

Thanks Steph! I, to am an average cook, but I am sick to death of hacking away at my vegetables with a paring knif I paid $5.99 for at the grocery store!

I am in a bit of a panic, because my university has decided to change all the Healthcare Plans to make them "more fair" (I wish they would just say to save money). The upshot is that I used to pay nothing for my benefit and a $15.00 co-ay, and now I am basically going to have to pay $56.00 a month to get the same benefits or pay less and take a change that I have to come up with thousands of dollars if I am sick. My cost of living raise raise per month this year comes out to $61.00. Also, if I get my expected re-classification and big raise, I will have to pay more! And we have to pay $500.00 a year to park here (well, I don't, because I don't have a care.)

It is very anger making because the reason most people came to work at the University when there were higher paying options was because of the free health benefits and free school. Now that the other business in the area have crapped out and the University is now the highest employer in the area, they have been slashing our benefits. PLUS they are doing that crappy wellness thing where they pay you to take a health assessment survey-- which in my brain is just going to lead to me paying higher insurance because I am fat and depressed (although quite physically healthy).

Shoes stretch when you wear them, right?

Not often or extensively enough, if you're me.

Or, sometimes, too much.`

I was wearing some too-small shoes around the house with socks last night in hopes of that very thing. We'll see.

I don't need a lot. Just a little. For $30 shoes, I think I can take the chance.

I also bought a couple pairs of more expensive shoes this weekend, egged on by my husband. It's the most I've ever spent on shoes, and it's still making me a little twitchy.

There is not enough coffee in the world for today.

Listening to NPR. Jeezus is Novak a douche. Jon Stewart may need to come up with new forms of the word for just what a douchy little doucheman he is.

This link will take you to a bunch of links of videos of cats in bottles. i.e. cats getting into and out of bottles: [link]

If I could save a cat in a bottle
The first thing that Id like to do
Is to save every cat
Till Caturday passes away
Just to send them to you

Shoes stretch when you wear them, right?

Leather, yes. Anything else, it's a crapshoot.

It needs to be lunch soon. Yes. Yes, my carbohydrates, soon I shall have you.

Pushin Daisies. "A mortuary novelty shop."

Which is cooler? A chocolate casket? or a hearse cookie-cutter? You don't have to decide - get them both!