It's too weird and beautiful and creepy not to share with you. Do watch the video.

The Little Girl Giant


Here's another... The Sultan's Elephant

1) orange marmalade
2) limoncello
3) Soap Nuts

What is the most interesting community you've joined lately?

I'm just tickled by steamfashion!

Gage isn't bothered by this, but your kids may be, so beware.

The Bookman (I called it Book Man in a previous post) has a really nice website. It'll be added to my list of well-designed, easy-to-use websites, something to strive for as I study design.

Hey Ashley... sillyboho and I are going to form a stitch'n'bitch. Wanna join us? How about jennfurr? We haven't decided what day of the week, but neither of us can get out of the house until 7pmish.

Giddy Up Cowboy Western Door Curtain.

Dexter poster for Comic-Con.

Comic Con - Thursday

5:45-6:45 Showtime: Dexter— Showtime presents exclusives from the set of the highly anticipated third season of Dexter. Moderator Kristin Dos Santos (E!) presides over this revealing interview and Q&A session with the top stars and executive producers of Dexter, featuring Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Clyde Phillips, and John Goldwyn, plus a special guest! Room 6CDEF

I can't decide between this house, this house, this house, this house, this house, or these 12 units. Decisions, decisions.

I want this bed. The swirls remind me of Aries, one of which I am. I can't say I would know how to dress the bed, however. What do you do with the end of it? Is there a space between the footboard and mattress where a comforter would thread through?

I have one of these day beds in boxes in the garage - bought it from Ikea's As-Is room for $40 about a year ago. I'd like to dump our sofa and replace it with this bed since we never have people over anyway.

I need another bookcase. Mine has shrunk.

I just harvested several bunches of grapes. This is the first year I've managed to get any for human consumption, as the birds and ants usually get to them before I do.

For lunch I simmered boneless-skinless chicken breasts, shredded a couple of them and used the shredded chicken to make tacos with homemade refried beans, homemade Spanish rice, and a little cheese. I have a pot of broth now that I'm using to make soup for dinner. Chicken broth, onions, peas, carrots, corn, alphabet pasta, and lemon slices. It will likely be seasoned with soy sauce later if it doesn't have enough flavor.

Railway Cake Pan.

We saw a commercial tonight for an American version of Kath & Kim. Vin actually felt physically sick, and we both felt like crying. My stomach dropped. It looks so stupid that it's just embarassing. I pray no one thinks this American version is the actual Australian version, which is one of the funniest shows ever made. I don't think we'd be this upset about any other show being ruined.

So tired.

I might have to move there just because they have a Poison Oak Contest. What the helllllll? LOL!

I just went through a couple of hundred CDs that were in the garage collecting dust because I'd long ago given up on trying to keep them nice. I used to keep them nice, I took pride in keeping them clean and scratch-free; and then I got married. When you get married your CDs become community property whether you want them to or not. Believe me, I resisted for the first three or four years before I relented and allowed my husband to take my CDs out of their cases and place them in a sleeved book for road trip listening and such. Our CDs combined.

Vin doesn't put as much importance on keeping things nice, seeing most things as fixable (scratches) or replaceable. I don't get this replaceable thing. Why would you want to replace something when you can just keep it nice in the first place? There's really not much effort involved in that. You finish playing a CD, you put it back in its case. He's more about convenience, I suppose. He plays a CD in the car, and when it's finished he takes it out of the CD player and puts it with his other CDs, which are caseless, in the pocket on the car door so that a stack of fifteen or so bare naked CDs are rubbing up against on another and also rubbing up against everything else that might be in that car door pocket.

This, of course, happened to a bunch of my CDs, because I am a shameful CD Mama and allowed this to take place. It feels as though I've let my children become tarnished by their friends' bad behavior... like that.

I spent about an hour out there in the garage going through my CDs one by one, cleaning dust off the cases, checking to see if they contained discs. My favorites are MISSING! GASP!! He doesn't know where his sleeved book thing is, and probably my CDs are in it, and probably they're all scratched up. Gurgle. So I'm making a list of CDs that he OWES me (yep, even though he says he'll find them and fix up 'em scratches). My list:

Live - Mental Jewelry
Foreigner - Records
Southern Culture On The Skids - Dirt Track Date
Mickey Hart - Planet Drum
Neil Young - Harvest
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Astrud Gilberto - Jazz 'Round Midnight
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
Chocolat - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Jethro Tull - The Original Masters
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music (meh, not too important, but still)
Beck - Odelay (very fargen icehole important)
Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
Wilco - Summerteeth

P.S. Ethan (whose 9th birthday is today! old fart!) is loving a CD called "Provocative Percussion", which is a little bit lounge, a little bit big band. My kid has awesome taste in music. He says he likes it for the drums. congas, and bongos. Perhaps he's still got a drummer in him. We're cleaning the garage, making space to set up his drum set out there.

PS.PS. This little Aspie kiddo just sang a sweet song on America's Got Talent, and his mom and half the audience are just bawling, and I'm about to start bawling too! What a beautiful little boy!!

PS.PS.PS. Tell me what your very first CD was. The first one you ever bought for yourself. Mine was Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule.

Destruction of greenhouse gases over tropical Atlantic.