I believe that Varmint is smiling. She likes it here. We have a lovely fenced backyard that is perfect for her to enjoy. And yes, she has three legs.
You know how digital cameras (unless you have a good one) take the picture when they darn well feel like it? That’s what happened here.
Sage thinks that this one looks like she’s saying, “Bring it on!” Who knows?
I don’t do many memes anymore, but I really liked this one! Discovered at Fearfully Made. What you do is go over here to make the mosaic. You enter the URLs of photos from Flicker to create it.
Here’s mine.
1. Michelle, 2. Blueberry Bowl, 3. Marathon Dolphins, 4. soft fuchsia, 5. More Johnny Depp…, 6. tea, 7. The Face of Morocco, 8. pick-me-up, 9. The Garden Cottage Bed and Breakfast, 10. The Way Home, 11. End Of The Day, 12. Linguine Grooms Robb
How do you make it? Well, just answer the following questions with your favorite pic from the first page that comes up when you enter your answer into Flickr’s search. If anyone’s wondering, my answer to number 10 was “Sky, Sage”. I love that New Mexico land came up, since I have some that looks about like that. Weird, but it makes sense.
Here are the questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you attend?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10.What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr name.
Less internet-savvy individuals will fall straight for it! This is really a cool idea.
First, we had the The Shizzolator, which changed the text of your website into hip-hop slang. (It appears to be offline now!) Now we have the LOLinator, which changes your site into an instant LOL cats site, a la icanhascheezburger. I ran Bloggrrl through it, and the results were hilarious. Bloggrrl has lots of pictures, so each picture was replaced with a lolcats pic. Then the text was changed to kitty-speak. Here’s an excerpt from one of my posts:
r u stil wonderin wtf u should get ur significant otha 4 valentine day??! or wonderin wtf u want 4 urself??!
Yes, I think this is very funny.
Sage and I did our weekly ritual of checking out the new lolcats pics posted over the past week yesterday. Here’s our favorite:
moar funny pictures
Photo by Jeff Kubina
I just have to complain. I’ve been trying to have healthier things in the house for Sage and I to eat. Good grief it’s expensive! We stopped by the HFS, and it was $20 for some almond butter and a couple of snacks that Sage wanted. But the thing that really gets me is the berries. Everyone says that berries are one of the healthiest things you can eat. I think they are also one of the tastiest, so almost every night, I make berries for desert. Sometimes I’ll cook some up and put them on top of pancakes or waffles as well. The thing is, I figured out how much money I am spending on berries and it is in the neighborhood of $100 a month! There is definitely a reason why people give their kiddos Little Debbie cakes for dessert.
I need a garden.
Science Daily has this article that basically says that people who are socially isolated are more likely to humanize their animals. I don’t agree with this at all. I’ve met some very sociable people who treat their pet like one of the family. Perhaps I’m being defensive, since I definitely tend to ascribe human-like characteristics to my animals, particularly the dog, who when she sighs, really sounds human! I really think that the dog thinks she is human, or at least aspires to it. Or perhaps she imagines or wishes that we were dogs, I really don’t know.
I do know that the cat is a creature unto itself.
Sage is in love with potatoes. Specifically, mashed potatoes. With tons of butter. It is weird to go to the store with your child after school and have him insist that you buy more potatoes. He is in the kitchen peeling them right now so I can cut them up and boil them. What do you do when you can’t get your kid to agree to eat anything but potatoes for dinner? I guess it could be worse…I’m sure it is a phase that will soon pass.
Sage and I have been checking out the Rosetta Stone trial software. We learned that the words for cat in Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai all have the sound “Mao” in them. So does this mean that when cats talk in those countries, they are constantly saying “Cat, cat”? I also started wondering why Chairman Mao had the name of a cat, more or less. The Chinese word for cat sounds a lot like “itchy mouth”. Only it’s more like “ee chee mou”. Something like that. Varmint has a new nickname. Come here, itchy mou!
Now there is really no excuse whatsoever. The college campus in my town has opened up this huge fitness center, and it has an indoor track. Alumni memberships are available. So it could be 100 degrees in the summer and I could avoid the treadmill… Did I mention that it also has a lazy river? Now that’s incentive!
Now if I can just get up the motivation to join….
Yesterday, I went to the craft store to get some scrapbook paper so that I could cover cans just like I did in Kindergarten. The one I did turned out about the same as they did then too, but at least it looks better than the Folger’s label.
While I was there, I passed some clock parts and sudden inspiration. The clock Sage and I made may not be beautiful, but as I assured him, it’s one of a kind. All I did was buy some foam, cardboard and some alligator stickers from the scrapbook section. Did you know you can get clock parts for two bucks online? I can just see myself having a whole house full of clocks.
Sage wanted to know where the numbers were. I taught him how to imagine numbers, and he “got it”. Cool.
