For K, it was pancakes with peanut butter and syrup.

This is one of my favorite things! That people usually look at me cross-eyed for. ::high-fives K::

Busy day at the bookstore today, and I've proved that this week is Klutz Week at B&N for me. After whacking my head on the bookshelf Thursday night (followed by dropping and shattering my cat's food dish that evening), I was unfolding a stepstool at the store this morning and managed to get my ring finger caught in a fold and cut the middle of my nail all the way down to the nail bed.

Grrr. Now I have to wait for it grow out before it looks anywhere near decent.

Kathy, don't make us break out the bubble wrap, because we will do it.

And, ouch. Sorry. Hope it grows back quickly.

But I love breaking bubble wrap!!

It could have been worse--it could have been my right ring finger, not my left. So, as long as I don't do anything else to my body, I'm okay.

I did celebrate a good bookstore day (13 cards sold--second highest for me!) by splurging on the DVD of the Sondheim tribute show "Putting It Together" from the late '90s, co-starring Carol Burnett, George Hearn, Bronson Pinchot, some other woman I'm not familiar with...oh, and a certain John Barrowman.

I've already seen the blooper in the special features, which is when Carol's skirt started giving way on-stage and she had to halt the show while she ran backstage to get it fastened properly, and JB literally ended up ROTFL and begging the director to tell him that they got that on film.

ack , brenda -got anyone in the neighborhood or a friend that can walk the dog - at least one longer walk so you only have to go out briefly

kathy , be extra careful

chrimg - boss ma~~

We just ate at our usual thai restaurant, where they gave a little green elephant key chain, It is very cute.

A Brief History of Chocolate

It's hard to pin down exactly when chocolate was born, but it's clear that it was cherished from the start. For several centuries in pre-modern Latin America, cacao beans were considered valuable enough to use as currency. One bean could be traded for a tamale, while 100 beans could purchase a good turkey hen, according to a 16th-century Aztec document.

Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties, suitable for use in the most sacred rituals of birth, marriage and death. According to Chloe Doutre-Roussel's book The Chocolate Connoisseur, Aztec sacrifice victims who felt too melancholy to join in ritual dancing before their death were often given a gourd of chocolate (tinged with the blood of previous victims) to cheer them up.

Awesome!

Spongebob Rectal Thermometer

Are you ready to put this in your “Bikini Bottom”?

I was shopping at the supermarket yesterday when I came upon a unique piece of Nickelodeon merchandising - a Spongebob Squarepants Musical Rectal Thermometer! Yes, it’s musical. And yes, it’s clearly marked for rectal use. It actually plays the Spongebob theme in your ass when your temperature is taken!

Spongebob is a huge success, and merchandise like this literally sticks it to the competition. But this product ranks with the infamous Mickey Mouse vibrator as one of the most miscast in cartoon licensing history! What were they thinking? Spongebob has enough trouble regarding his sexual identity. Ren & Stimpy may have been a better choice here… but Spongebob? Nah!

ummmm

I'm pretty sure the writing staff on Spongebob is thrilled to know there's a rectal thermometer on the market with Bob L'Ponge on it.

If that's not a Phillip J Frye quote, it ought to be.

::sends resume to Futurama writing staff::

Am back from walking. Have survived, but have now gone from huddled under mountains of blankets to sprawled in my underwear trying not to sweat to death. Fun.

Sexayy!

Crap, I'm supposed to go to Wondercon tomorrow and to meet friends for brunch beforehand and I'm definitely coming down with an icky icky cold.

t whines