Seriously, this is funny..an engineers guide to cats.

A combination of no glasses and lack of sleep lead me to read this headline the first three times around......with tomato in it..instead of tornado.

Four people were killed when a tornado struck a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa, a state safety official says. about 8 hours ago from CNN Alert

Tornado makes much more sense, but the visual with tomato was astounding.

Getting ready for our dinner group tonight.  The theme is "mexican".  I'm making Albondigas soup - it's a meatball soup and Eric is making these Brazilian cheese bread balls.  We're hosts for the next event for our group and we want to try to be really creative.  Got any ideas?  So far we've done Carribean Night, "Big Night" - Italian, and tonight is Mexican.  We were thinking Indian or Asian or I was thinking about celebrating everyone's heritage and asking them all to bring appetizers representative of their family....dunno.

 Last summer I didn't hate my body, but I didn't love it.  This summer....I hate it again.  I really, really, really need to get back on the exercise train.  I've changed my clothes about four times today and I can't find anything that I want to wear in public other than the oversized t-shirts and shorts that I always wear that make me look bigger than I am and are ultra hot.....but they hide the rolls that I see that I can't stand.  Seriously - I can't tell you how much I hate my body.  I go through this nearly every year at this time.  I want to wear the little tank tops and cute sun dresses...but I fucking hate how I look in them.

 So, Deneese and I carpooled over to Stitching Post tonight because we both had classes there that started at 6.  We got there about five till and she asked where her class was and then I asked where mine was and the lady helping us looked baffled.  There was no embroidery class scheduled for tonight.  I assured her that when I signed up the woman told me there was, that the class was full, but she said it was ok to sign me up anyway....then they looked at the classes for tonight and the woman who signed me up, signed me up for the wrong class.  How annoying.  So I get to take my embroidery class on Monday!

Also, I figured out why I'm dizzy.  Turns out if you don't wear your prescription glasses for long periods of time it does that to ya.  I'm an idiot.

Tonight on my way home, it was the perfect temperature....and I drove with the windows down....and I saw fireflies...or lightning bugs..whatever you want to call them.  Summer nights just after sun down, when it's warm but not hot..and maybe a little humid...and the fireflies are out....my favorite.  Makes me remember being a kid.  It's a good feeling.

In September my mom and I are doing a craft table at her friends doggy daycare. She's having an open house and has asked my mom to have a bunch of pet related stuff. Mom asked me to help. I made one of these holiday collars, but I can't get the ribbon to stay knotted. Any suggestions?

Tags: animal abuse, crafts

 Last night I dreamt about dual tuner Tivo's and doing blind hems.  I wanted to watch a show that was on two different channels so I set it to record on both channels...because I could...  weird.  While that was recording I kept picking up pieces of fabric around the place where I was (which was apparently a Halloween costume store) and practicing my blind hem.  Uh....ok.

 I hope that some day, if I get old and cannot care for myself...and my skin is covered with thick, nasty scabs that make me look and smell gross.......that someone will bathe me with as much love and care as I do for my dog.  

Poor thing.

I am so full of random trivia, that once Deneese and I remembered it was Cinco de Mayo today, I was also able to randomly tell her it's also the 83rd anniversary of the release of the perfume Chanel No. 5.  Top that.

Last night in the tub we were asking Saffron where various body parts were - because she's fond of pointing them out.  She stood up and her dad asked her if she knew where her bottom was.  She promptly farted.  We couldn't help but laugh.

I'm thinking about dropping my gym membership.  I love the gym.  I love having access to all the machines.  I love having child care available.  I love having access to the pool.  I hate that every time I've been able to go for the past three months, Saffron seems to get sick a few days later.  I'm thinking it's not really a coincidence.  It's warm enough out now that I can start running with her in the stroller in the mornings again.  This will be better than our current Dora in the morning routine...especially if I don't get so winded that I can actually talk to her while we're running.

Tomorrow I start classes for my new sewing machine.  I'm so excited.  I cut out fabric over the weekend and hope to be able to sew things together after this first class...will be nice since my fricking users manual still isn't here yet.  The class is three hours long and is one night a week over the next three weeks.  Color me thrilled.

I've been singing alot to Saff lately.  Just kids songs.  She's picking up the words and can sing some of the words with me.  Mostly it's the words that are emphasized by the rhythm of the songs, but she's still getting it.  It's super cute.  It's even cuter when we're doing it in her dark room right before bed and she's snuggled into my shoulder singing back to me.  I love it.

My girl is becoming full blown toddler. She's got less baby fat and more mind of her own.  She's very, very willful and it takes all the patience I can muster with her most days to stick to my guns and be consistent with her.  It does however pay off.  We're no longer playing in the dogs water bowl or climbing on the chair to get the remote to the ceiling fan.  Patience is not my strong point.  It never has been.  I'm hoping that life with a toddler is helping to groom me for life back in the corporate world.