People, if you're going to use French, use it right.

Okay, I knew c'est la vie. But, is today the day to confess I can spell neither horse's ovaries nor toot sweet?

Uh, hors d'[vowels]vres. I can't guess the second one, since all the candidates seem way too obvious for those cheese-eating vowel-monkey French academicians.

I think my niece is going to be Cass when she grows up. One of her most favorite activities is to go into the candle store in the mall near her house and sniff every scent they have. She's not yet 3.

I have a sixty-page document that I have to review for double-spacing after periods and use of serial commas.

Electronic, I hope? Do a global search for period-space-space and comma-space-and. The spacing can also be globally replaced by searching for ^w and replacing with a single space.

But surely Nutty knows "oeuvre", as in a body of work.

But she'll grow up knowing the value of a good smoke detector. That's reassuring, right?

I do love candles. Fluttery flames of happiness, they are.

Unfortunately, I have to put the serial commas in. But I also have to fix the language, so I might as well go through the whole thing. Which I have, once. I'm now on my second pass.

nor toot sweet

Tout suite.

Segway! No rest for the weary!

Shoes go where they are taken off. Unless there are too many shoes and I put them away. This means in the am some one is always looking for shoes.

My commute is currently 7 minutes to one branch , 18 min to the other. When my commute was 30 - 35 minutes I was always early. Now I am usually late

I can't spell in english - so I will not get involved in the french conversation , even though I did take it years ago)

I see "rod iron" on Craig's List a lot, and it makes me want to tear my hair out. What hath Craig's List wrought, I ask you?