I :heart: baby boys with cleft chins!!!!!







Both my most honorable sons had them!

I hate doing Red Cross runs, esp. in-town ones. Mind you, I know they're a wonderful org. that does great work...but their pay for drivers is shit...

I won't go into the details, but eariler tonight it involved three trips pushing a hand cart on foot over a great distance, in 40F weather with gale force winds coming down off the buildings...and I estimate I made about 50 cents per box I delivered...

Well, we're covered in snow once again.

That's the statement de jour here this winter, DB...I'm not sure I've seen the ground in a month. Six inches of snow yesterday and six more coming today. *sigh*

That pretty smile of hers ^^^ sure does warm things up. :)

I learned today that I can be out-geeked

I'm soooooo gonna pay for eating all this beef sausage and cheese.

I finally finished making my Xmas cookies! :D

It's Wednesday and I've got my 6:00AM meeting to get ready for. :(

It's back to the grindstone today :(

I sure hope everyone returning to work today has a good day. :boink:

It's hard to get my mind around the idea that #1 son turns 25 today...

(now if we can just get him out of our house...)

I ate a burger and fries for lunch and now I really need a nap

I have a weird tingle in the tip of my thumb and third finger of my left hand.

Use your right hand tonight ;)

But I always do! :o

And then MOVE if you want to keep them out. :car:


:nod:

:yikes: I've been sucking on the wrong hand. THAT must be the problem.

Sell his bed then break his dinner plate!

Say, I hadn't thought of that. :)

I'm having one of those days where my boss looks extra :hot: and I have to remind myself not to get into trouble. :D

Getting ready to head to the airport...the kiddos have been gone for nearly two weeks, and I'm anxious to have them home.

I'm watching "The Naked Gun." :)

Every time I see this thread title I start hearing Chaka Khan singing "Tell Me Something Good."

good. bad. i'm the one with the gun.

bad movie quotes. or movies quoted badly.

whatever.

aaaanywhooo, i've ben reading threads all afternoon and i'm not half-way caught up. hope ya'll had a good holiday.
and happy nude year, too.

I've got too much time on my hands. :nod:

Want proof? Do you think part of these two pieces of music sound familiar? :shrug:

Aggie War Hymn

Yogi Bear theme

I'm not sure...got so focused on the dancing girls, I forgot to listen to the music...

:shrug:



Think I'll have to go back & watch, oops, listen a couple more times to be sure...

:brows:

I didn't think the dancing girls looked at all like Yogi. :shrug:



Was that the question? :confused:

I'm with db.

Looks like another foggy day again today......... maybe I'll find more dancing girls to post. :rofl:

We're counting on it, IowaMan. :slurp:

Are we there yet?

We're about half way! That's what I always told my kids when we were on a trip and they asked.

I am a bottomless pit today :p

I think I'm about ready to call it a day. Nighty night. :wave:

Crashing soon myself........

Something bizarre from the land of the bizarre.

Japanese newborns visit relatives as cuddly rice bags
Posted Tue Jan 8, 2008 6:28pm AEDT

Newborn babies in Japan who cannot make it round to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead - cuddly bags of rice.

A small rice shop in Fukuoka, southern Japan, has been swamped with orders for "Dakigokochi" rice-filled bags shaped like a bundled baby and printed with the newborn's face and name.

Each rice bag is tailor-made to weigh as much as the new-born and shaped so the rice fills the bag up. Holding the round-edged bag is intended to feel like holding a real baby.

"Other rice shops sell bags printed with baby photos, but they use regular bags. People say they aren't good for holding," said Naruo Ono, owner of the rice shop, Yoshimiya.

"Rice for small babies would be stuck at the bottom of the bag and the baby's photo would be scrunched at the top."

It is customary in Japan to give people gifts or money on occasions such as births and the recipient then responds with other gifts, often worth half the amount they received.

Ms Ono said the rice bags have made perfect "half-return" gifts although relatives face a dilemma once they are done with the cuddling.

"People say they have a hard time opening them up and eating the rice," Ms Ono said.

I want to find something uniquely American to give to relatives in India...and I am stumped

how about a coffee table book about all the american geographic wonders, or american artists, or an american foods cookbook?


or a package of hotdogs and a sixpack of beer that tastes like water. :D

I like all the ideas.....hotdogs might be especially fun. ;) Part of the challenge is that I need to buy for 25 people so I can't afford very much, and then I have to have something compact to fit in my suitcase with all my clothes...<sigh>

Maybe I'll look for recipe cards.... :p