chinese prediction calendar

check out this calendar!

it was right on for us!

mystery of mysteries

our landlady has a new baby!

that doesn't sound so weird, except that the baby is 7 weeks old. and when we moved in 10-12 weeks ago she was the same svelte size 6 that she is now.

details aside, he is an ADORABLE little guy with tons of hair. and he can be FRIENDS* with our baby!


*it has been my all-time dream that my kids would be friends with my friends' kids. at one point, when my friends and i had given up on love (hi, ridley!), we decided that we could always just get dogs and our dogs could be friends. but, now that our baby will be an "outdoor" baby soon, i respond in a high-pitched voice to news of friends' children (those within a year or so of our baby), "OOOHHH, they can be FRIENDS!!!!!!" well, ok, i have a further confession. i only say that about friends' male children. about their female offspring i squeal, "OOOHHH, they can get MARRIED!!!!!" i'm going to be one of those moms who embarrass their children by having too much fun at their 4th-grade slumber party.

i love my husband.

my husband got a new toy (aka laptop). his old one bit the dust for the 2nd or 3rd time, so he was due for one. now this was no regular "new" computer, where you open the box and plug in some wires. oh no, this was a "craigslist special", complete with nonfunctional battery and part of someone's mac-n-cheese dinner encrusted on the bottom and screen. oh yes, and that person and the computer both had fruit punch of some variety to wash down the mac-n-cheese. mmm.

never fear, the minute we got home i insisted that the laptop be scrubbed thoroughly with sanitizing wipes.

depressing

i saw the SADDEST thing the other day.

this guy rode by alone on his bike. and his bike was a bicycle-built-for-two.

i haven't done "the pregnant lady thing" and cried at diaper commercials, but this one was a real tearjerker. ok, hypothetical tears, but whatever.

a greeting card for me!

my latest Powell's find.

t-shirt spotted today:

I DON'T USUALLY DATE MODELS, BUT OK HERE'S MY NUMBER

not really funny, except for the circumstances... i was praying during Mass, when the 70-year-old wearer walked up the aisle.