Um, what kind of muffuit?

Could it be a bit of green onion, Kat?

Oooh, Sinestro Corps t-shirt. MM needs this.

Oooh, Serenity ornament.

Cowboy Bebop lighter for Daisy...

You could do all your xmas shopping at TFAW.

My kids were trying to reset the Monday scale by dumping one of the cat boxes and eating some litter. Thankfully, I suppose, It could have been worse. It was the box the cat seems to hate so he doesn't use it.

I was still completely wigged out.

Smiley Grace at least cheered me up.

Cowboy Bebop lighter for Daisy...

That's so cool! I'd have to fight Mr. Jane for it all the time.

My kids were trying to reset the Monday scale by dumping one of the cat boxes and eating some litter. Thankfully, I suppose, It could have been worse. It was the box the cat seems to hate so he doesn't use it.

Oh man, bad enough when the dog tries this. Ew.

My kids were trying to reset the Monday scale by dumping one of the cat boxes and eating some litter.

Maybe they thought it was almond roca?

A sausage cheddar biscuit. It does have red peppers and onions. It could be green onion (though I don't remember putting it in). Or it could be some ground herbs, though, again, I don't remember putting them in. I'm really slow these days. Brain not functioning.

NYT questions the efficacy of exercise in keeping us healthy. Favorite quote:

Just ask Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina. He runs every day and even runs marathons. But, he adds, “I was short, fat and bald when I started running, and I’m still short, fat and bald. Weight control is difficult for me. I fight the losing battle.”

The difficulty, Dr. Blair says, is that it’s much easier to eat 1,000 calories than to burn off 1,000 calories with exercise. As he relates, “An old football coach used to say, ‘I have all my assistants running five miles a day, but they eat 10 miles a day.’”

Cashmere, that's hysterical.

No. No. I mean its awful. Truly.

Ok, it's hysterical when I picture those two beautiful children going at a box of kitty litter like a pair of puppies. And you catching them and being horrified.

Does litter taste like anything? Besides rocks or sand or something? I mean, the dog is going after the cat poo (which is like caviar to them) but what is the kid logic? Sprinkles? Cookie crumbs? Gravel? Mmmmmm sand? Is it salty or something?

OK, I feel like Anya and the skating monkeys. Not that your children are monkeys. It's the illogic that's so funny. And the sheer horror.

“I was short, fat and bald when I started running, and I’m still short, fat and bald. Weight control is difficult for me. I fight the losing battle.”

Weird. Exercise didn't cause him to grow hair?

Sorry.

ION, I slept badly last night. I have this thing where I can't get to sleep on Sunday night. Anyway, I feel like only 1/3 of my brain is working, and the problem I'm working on now requires 1/2 to 2/3 of my brain to be functioning.

Awww, shrift, don't destroy the universe yet.

Aww, thanks, David. You're good to me, even when I traumatize you with my picspam.

I am getting french fries now. Because I deserve them.

Yeah, its almost impossible to exercise enough calories away to make a difference. If you build muscle you'll burn them more efficiently but you still have to restrict intake seriously to lose any weight.

It occurs to me I'd make an awful Mother. I'd let them do almost anything if it was cute. As long as it didn't threaten their lives I'd probably laugh when they were bad. As they got older I'd give them all the chores I hate.

They WOULD be good cooks though -- they'd be doing stuff in the kitchen from the time they could snap the ends off of beans and husk corn. Heh. We'd end up eating lots of beans and corn. And peas! I haven't had shelled peas in ages. It would be a little kitcheny sweatshop to be sure.