Oh, flea, I'm sorry, that house looked wonderful. Which of course makes the competition worse.

I'm waiting for my financial advisor to show up so she can tell me whether I should sell my house, how to roll up all my retirement accounts, and so forth. And then I have a haircut and then I have a telephone call with Kaiser about some surgery I'm having in a few weeks. And I ran 5 miles in the hills this morning, with a pretty fast pace compared to my usual, although the zombies caught me at least twice.

Maybe. From way back, Dana, if you beat up Ayn Rand guy, e-mail me. research. I loved it when KO used to read those Thurber stories(despite my oosting, it took me a while to get fully on board. But he's a funny reader and does voices so it wasn't like "Keith, he's your dad, and rather a captive audience.Although I understand in some families one is enough...I read, somewhere.) Flea, I do not miss the ups and downs of the house hunt. Although this condo isn't everything.

Yesterday at about 2pm all the laundry in my life was either clean and folded or actively being worn. At 7pm my darling son, whom I love and therefore did not kill, said to me, "Mom, it looks like you need to do some laundry. The basket is full." (And it was, because 4 people had just taken off their clothes (2 outfits for the kids because of soccer) and put them in the basket.

Sorry about the house, flea.

Heck, the first pick is named Jadeveon Clowney! But nobody will top my football name favorite, Barkevious Mingo.

I dimly remember someone from the Boston Globe (?) putting forward an All-Name basketball team, back in olden times.

One advantage of having a somewhat anal husband is that we do three loads every Sunday. And that includes, washing, drying and putting away. Whites (which is sheets and towels as well as clothes), blacks (yeah, we wear a lot of black) and, um, other. California is so dry that it is fine for us each to use one towel all week. When we lived in NYC, we usually ended up using two per week.

My MiL not only uses a clean towel and washcloth each time she showers, she also needs a clean bath mat. She is known as "The Queen of England" by the rest of the family.

I am sorry about the house, flea. And the lice, Burrell.

The top baby names just came out, and my board name (Sophia) is the number one name. And I am amused because I picked it because a) it was the name of my high school/college BFF and b) it seemed SO UNIQUE. No one was ever named Sophia!

I wonder if my real name will ever get up there?

I would love a clean bath mat every shower, but I make do without. For some reason, that seems like it would be going too far.

With five people showering, a clean towel every shower is a pipe dream, much as I would love it. And we all wear jeans till they get grungy or too stretched out.

The Baby Name Wizard is full of wacky name facts and trend analyses today: [link]

I will add that I just looked up Barkevious Mingo to see how he's doing. He had a bruised lung but seems to have recovered. (Bruised ... lung?) I also learned that his older brothers are named Hugh and Hughtavious.

My MiL not only uses a clean towel and washcloth each time she showers, she also needs a clean bath mat.

We have a fancy throw rug in the bathroom, so Tim puts a towel down on it for when he gets out of the shower, which I refer to as the "foot towel." (Sometimes it's actually a bath mat, depending on what batch of towels & such is clean.) And he asked me why I would put my wet feet all over the throw rug, and I gave him a totally blank look, because I go into yogic contortions to dry my feet while standing in the tub and then step directly into my flip flops. It never occurred to me to use a foot towel/bath mat, even though he does. I thought the foot towel was something special he used because he has toenail fungus. (No lie.)

This is yet one more way in which I have ZERO common sense.