Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

…is that they appropriate your bubble wrap (a.k.a. “pops” in kid-ese). Your hours of blissfully popping are over. I love big-bubble bubble wrap, and we just got a package with some in it a couple of days ago, and do you know how many bubbles I got to pop? Three, that’s how many. That sucks.

I just discovered the recipe section on the Reynolds Wrap website and I think I’ve died and gone to heaven. Tonight: pork chops in chutney.

That is, if the thunderstorm doesn’t take us out. Just what central Texas needs right now, more rain.

I didn’t get to the gym today, most notably because I have canker sores. In my throat. And they hurt, and that’s on top of the fact that I slept funny the other night and my neck’s all screwed up and I can’t turn my head. Wah wah, pity me, mmmm-kay?

This is really disturbing – dolly dogs
So’s this – Punchie and Pikachu.
And this, well, this will give you nightmares – Nimoy sings Baggins ballad.
An angry 404 error.
Odd nipples. Really.
Hey, I think I dated the guy on the right.
There’s some pretty amazing body paint going on here.

By the way, the last 3 links are not safe for work or kids.

There’s a whole movement dedicated to keeping Austin weird. This menu demonstrates a typically non-weird restaurant. My favorite is the Hill Country Poor People in Silly Hats Made of Arugula, with the Braised Mixed Field Hands in Curdled Lhasa Apso Saliva as an appetizer.

Vise-Grip 32XX ToolBox Multipurpose Tool
Panasonic EW176 Portable Oral Irrigator

…okay, just stop. That’s obscene.

Sabatier 11-Piece BBQ Tool Set with Sturdy Carrying Case
Bow Wow Buddies: Golden Lab
Hamilton Beach 05521 TrueAir Cool Mist Humidifier

Hey, I could actually use the humidifier. Maybe. Come to think of it, I haven’t used a humidifier since the 2 yo was teeny. Nevermind.

Pass and close my gold box.

Got the smell out, thank goodness.

Speaking of piss, ever wanted to write your name in the snow?

I just walked up the stairs and it smells like a piss bomb went off in the bedroom. There was some pee on the bed last night, so I changed the sheets and put Nature’s Miracle on the mattress. Then all night last night I kept waking up and smelling pee. I thought maybe the blanket I put on had been peed on, so I took that out. The smell is getting worse and worse. I just sent hub to buy a blacklight (to find pee stains, I can’t find mine and I knew we had it over here at one point, dammit) and more Nature’s Miracle (enzymatic cleaner, totally neutralizes pee smell) and another cat box to put up there.I hope I can get it de-smelled before tonight because there is no way in hell that I am going to sleep up there. It’s frigging nasty.

Luckily the 2 yo’s room is stink-free. The baby sleeps with us so we’ll be nomads together.

1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from?
I’m a true mongrel. I have ancestors from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Spain, and a tiny bit of French (very small, please don’t hold it against me).

2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
I’d love to visit any of them. Except maybe France. I’ve been wanting to go to Wales since I read Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series.

3. Which would you least like to visit? Why?
Well, France. Do you really need a reason?

4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Yes, I celebrate the Fourth of July because no matter where my ancestors came from hundreds of years ago, I am an American.

5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc)?
The most recent to move here that I know of were my father’s grandparents. From what I’ve read, they met on the ship as they sailed to America and they fell in love. I can trace back to the Mayflower in the 1600s and the Canary Islanders in the 1700s, as well as the Quaker movement who came over with William Penn in the 1700s.

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