I am so getting one of those GCS tshirts...with the purple bat. Perfect.

Anyone interested in giving me a thumb up or down on my latest doggy lama biz card design. How does it look ?

Especially...does the tagline work?

eta: Oh, also...for space considerations, I listed the email address, but did not list the website address. Is it too much of a risk to think that people will automatically recognize that all they need do is replace info@ with www?

Definitely too much of a risk -- if you really can't do both, you're better off listing the website and leaving off the email.

I was afraid of that.

bonny - can you run the website on the back? or the tag?

I don't remember ever having mittens with strings. I do remember having little clippy things to attach my mittens to the cuffs of my jacket, though.

On the Crayola color thing from way back -- I think I remember hearing that Indian Red was named for the color of some kind of wood or something from India. Or something like that, that wasn't skin color. And Prussian Blue is now the name of a white supremacist teeny-bopper musical act.

Fuck. I think that I'm going to have to play my least favorite game in the world: Find the Smell.

Our house has slowly begun to stink more and more over the past week. There's some horrid, cloying sweetness mixed in with good ol' foulness. Drat.

bonny - can you run the website on the back? or the tag?

Of COURSE. duh. That's what I did with my last card. Thanks for the reminder.

I made real food for dinner tonight! Red lentil and cauliflower curry with brown basmati rice. Mmm. And I think I'm going to make steamed veggies with vegan cheese sauce for lunch tomorrow. (I'm generally not a fan of vegan cheese, but this sauce is an exception -- it's tofu and carrots and nutritional yeast and miso and mustard and lemon juice and one or two other simple things like that, and when you combine them all, you get something that tastes exactly like Cheez Whiz.)

Yay real food!

Oh, Kristin, I HATE that game. Good luck!

So, today at the after school program the kids were drinking the really happy Koolaid. They were really hysterical. Towards the end, I was getting them to quiet down a bit, and they were coloring/drawing pictures. They all seemed to think that the pictures needed to go to my house and on my refrigerator. Well, I don't have that much room on my fridge, so I started a flickr set to collect pictures of all of my very special artwork. I have it locked to contacts, but if you're a contact, you should totally go check them out. They're hysterical.

My favorite story from the whole thing is this, though.

One of my preschoolers drew me a picture of a princess and her flying pony. Then she proceeded to draw me two more princess pictures. After that she asked what I wanted her to draw, so I said, "Draw me a Prince Charming."

"What's a Prince Charming, Miss Val?"

"Prince Charming is like a princess, only a boy."

"Oh. You can't have a Prince Charming. Only a princess."