I was going to try to find hot pictures of Viggo Mortensen to share with you as a gift, but all I found was this horrible, horrible facial hair disaster. Seriously, Viggo. I know you’re artsy, but come on.

Then, knowing what a good spinner you are, I did a search for “luxury spinning wheel.” I didn’t get exactly what I was hoping for. However, if you can spin yarn on these babies, you’re really a good spinner

Then I thought maybe some nice chocolate. Everybody likes chocolate.

I give up.

Happy birthday, Jet!

I’m not thin enough to wear the Wonder Woman underoos without irony, but by gum, I can wear this Wonder Woman apron! Stand back, citizens! I’m making me some mighty muffins!

Christmas is coming up. I’m just sayin’.

Blackhawk Hardware at Park Road Shopping Center is running a special – a shotglass of winter crop seeds for 99 cents. We went there yesterday to get a few collard and spinach seeds, and now have far more than our garden can hold. We’re especially full up on collards, since those seeds are tiny and an amazing amount fits into a shotglass.

If you’re interested in seeds for spinach or collard greens, let me know.

Emily saw some of the women’s springboard diving in the Olympics tonight. Now she wants to go to the Olympics. Sport: diving. Her unwillingness to duck her head under water may prove to be a minor obstacle.

Her favorite diver was Guo Jingjing. She asked what her American name would be, since she knows that my Malaysian/ethnic Chinese friends have Chinese names and American names. She then extended that a bit further to all foreigners and wanted to know what the Russian’s American name would be, etc.

We askd what she thought the divers were going to do when they were standing at the edge of the diving board. She answered that they were getting ready to fly. Easy to see why she’d think that.

Sweet kid moment: she wanted all the competitors to get into the pool so they could all swim together. Aw.

It’s been raining since yesterday evening, and I’d been wanting to go run on the greenway. This morning on the way to the store, it was sprinkling, but I thought, “well, this isn’t so bad. I can still run.”

That marks the first time that I’ve actually wanted to go out and run in less than ideal conditions. So I’m going to go do it. And although it may be a spectacularly bad idea, I’m also going to try to move up to week 2 of the Couch to 5K program. If I have to drop back down again, no big deal, but I think I’d like to try to move up today.

I stayed up late last night and watched Dara Torres swim. If she can get out there and do her thang, so can I.

ETA: I just got back. I did week 2, and it went great. Clearly I’m ready for it. Go me!

This link’s for , , and my mom.

The rest of you are just caught in the backwash.

http://nofatclips.com/02007/11/02/chocolade/Chocolade%20Haas.mp4

For some reason, there’s been a sudden upswing in the number of Jayne inquiries. Some is probably back to school shopping, but I think it’s mainly that the weather’s cooling down.

Happy about this development: the guy to the right.

Look what my cousin made for me. Hee hee!



ETA: My cousin’s wife has a LJ now, as .

So I was up early this morning because I had a nightmare. I had been working in The Office, yes the one from TV with Michael Scott as my boss. In my dream it was a radio station, and I managed to get a job interview at CNN.

I had arrived at their office and had learned all the details of the sample story they wanted me to write and was just about to start, when I heard Emily wailing from the other room. Seems her new child care person had refused to let her go to the bathroom and she had peed on herself. They’d brought her to CNN to wait for me, but she was getting more and more upset. I had to cancel the interview and take Em home because she was so unhappy.

I’m sure there was no symbolism whatsoever involved in that dream.

On the up side, Emily is totally on board with going to the zoo today! It’s unbelievable, considering what a homebody she’s turned into. Plus she’s still in her jammies and is playing her favorite computer game, so those are other factors which might make her say no. Her favorite phrase is “maybe later” but she’s going for this. Yay!

We’ve gone to the NC Zoo many times, but never the Riverbanks Zoo, so I think we’ll try that one. After I get some coffee. Not to jinx, but it looks like a good day after all!

One more. Man, you can always tell when I’ve had my coffee, can’t you?