I think Lillian and the puddle killed me ded.

Zicam

Zinc delivered in a nasal gel, so it goes straight into your blood stream without going through the stomach. I can't handle eating zinc because it makes me super nauseous, but as a nasal gel works great without the ick factor. Aside from the "ick i'm shoving something up my nose" factor.

From the "Why didn't we have toys like this when we were kids" dept. - EyeClops. You connect it to a TV and it magnifies everything 200 times.

I spy with my big eye something that is... totally disgusting.

My skin! Viewed in all its glory, it can be pretty gory when it's magnified 200x its regular size and broadcast on a plasma TV screen. It's enough to make a grown woman cry.

This eye-popping peek is courtesy of the EyeClops Bionic Eye, a new toy that transforms your TV into a giant communal microscope and provides a very up close and personal look at everyday stuff, like hairy moles, finger nail crud and ear wax. Figs and dog fur to dirt and dust take on alien appearances as they're enlarged by the EyeClops, a simple to use hand-held device put out by Jakks Pacific Inc.

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Carpet turned into noodles, hair into twisted rope, tiny dead bugs into hideous creatures and magazine pictures into humungous pixels. Salt became large blocks of ice and eyelashes resembled gigantic insect legs. They examined skin, scars and scabs -- I nixed their booger idea. My husband nixed my dog poop idea.

review: [link]

Zicam has a bad habit of leading to people losing the ability to smell. No, seriously.

Child not allowed to get any cuter: [link]

She will always be a chibi, won't she? That Squeak is LETHALLY CUTE. I am DED.

ded. I wonder if this means I don't have to bring anymore floor boards into the house

More x-mas gift ideas - this one is bookshelf porn, with extra added equation goodness: [link]

OMG you guys, I just had the biggest yet lamest accomplishment ever. I changed the lightbulbs in my living room ceiling fixture for the first time in over a year. If I had a ladder, I guess it would be better, but I was standing on a chair with my arms all the way over my head, and falling is like my biggest fear. Luckily, I put the compact fluorescent bulbs in, so I shouldn't have to do it again!

Not lame. Hooray!

I have often sat in dimness rather than get around to changing lightbulbs (though I did not, I point out, curse the dimness).

Yeah, I have a floor lamp that lights up the room fine, but it's on the other side of the room from the door, which is kind of awkward in the dark. Maybe I'll try the foyer light next!

a billytea alert, though it might interest other people, tonight's PBS Nature series is premiering "The Beauty of Ugly" with warthogs, vultures, naked mole rats, and many other kinds of fascinating ugly.