A Serbian woman who used to work in the costume shop before moving back to Aerbia called that "doing your frog " (the frog being the hard thing). It made me laugh at the time, but it does help.

That's so funny, my friend calls it 'eating the frog.' Huh. Must be a similar derivation.

"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Often attributed to Mark Twain, but more probably derived from 18th century French wit Nicolas Chamfort, who wrote:

M. de Lassay, a very indulgent man, but with a great knowledge of society, said that we should swallow a toad every morning, in order to fortify ourselves against the disgust of the rest of the day, when we have to spend it in society.

Man. That is dark.

Well, I think I shall skip the eating a frog part, but I did let one of the employees go this morning, which counts. One of Bobby's friends no less. He really didn't have any counter position when suggesting that this really wasn't a good fit for him. On account of it being true. Still, no fun. I dislike being the bearer of bad news. Now to spend the rest of the day working on fixing all the stuff he messed up. Sigh.

We call that worst first in our house and use it both to describe homework, chores, and sometimes dinnertime.

I am thinking I need to do a massive brain dump of things I want/need to do at the home. Something that will prompt me though to look at it or better yet would let me track when things get completed and move the next task up the list.

I'm thinking about doing a retro pin-up photo shoot as a present (well, the pictures will be the present [which I suppose is stating the obvious]) to Tim for our 1st anniversary. This place is running a 50% off Groupon right now, so I'm really tempted to do the 1- or 2-outfit package. But my jerkbrain is all "Yeah, your husband thinks you're attractive, but seriously, not pin-up attractive, what is wrong with you?" So I'm torn because my jerkbrain is a jerk.

You should totally do that.

But my jerkbrain is all "Yeah, your husband thinks you're attractive, but seriously, not pin-up attractive, what is wrong with you?"

Husbands are notorious for liking the things their wives do--the good ones, anyway--especially if the things they do are sexy. Since the pinup is accentuating things he likes about you, and the pictures are for him, then punch the jerkbrain in the throat and enjoy dress-up.

Um, yeah, totally do it! If they're awful, just don't give them to him...but I suspect they'll be awesome.