My next pet WILL be a lion.

Am I the only person on the face of the planet who has not seen this video?
(Hint: for a more dramatic impact, turn your volume up.)
(Unless you no likey the Whitney Houston. Just saying.)

sniff.sniff.goosebumps.

Also — does anyone else think this would make a great ad for The New AT&T? No? Just me then?

Life Overload

So much (too much) going on this week, what with Katelynn turning FOUR!YEARS!OLD! (prompting a trip to Incredible Headache Pizza), my favorite aunt turning sixty (prompting TWO! parties, one of which is a huge surprise party on Sunday), and school starting in twenty days.

Posting will likely be light for the next twenty days after which school will be starting.

Also, school starts in twenty days.

But because I have so much love oozing from my pores for all you beautiful people who still stop by everyday to see if I’ve had anything stupid new to say, I leave you today with links to two of my favorite posts that were read at the BlogHer Community Keynote. One serious, one funny. Like my two personalities.

It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop, by Mr Lady

High, by Jenny, The Bloggess

Go read. Seriously. You’ll laugh, You’ll cry. You’ll thank me later.

Sometimes iPods need a good spanking.

* The following is pulled from my September 2006 archives. *

Tuesdays are Unofficial Laundry Days in our household. I say unofficial because generally speaking each Tuesday comes and goes with little to no pomp and circumstance. And even though the event is announced to the public (my husband and kids) in advance (the night before), it seems I am the only person in the house who participates in the ritual every freaking week.

Three Tuesdays ago, I went through my usual routine of: 1. gathering all the kids’ dirty clothes from upstairs, 2. taking them to the laundry room, 3. sorting them, and 4. performing the necessary pre-treating, washing, drying, and folding, before 5. putting the then-clean clothes back in their appropriate closets and/or dresser drawers.

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Anatomy of a BlogHer Attendee: A Study of Our Alikes and Differences

HYPOTHESIS
That we, writers and members of the blogiverse and prospective attendees of the BlogHer ’08 Conference, are more alike than we are different.

DATUM
Recent posts and/or comments and/or tweets written by approximately twenty (20) BlogHer ’08 prospective attendees. 20 = 100%

RESULTS
Number of bloggers who talk too much when they drink / are nervous: 9 or 45%
Number of bloggers who repeat themselves when they are excited: 4 or 20%
Number of bloggers who talk with their hands: 2 or 10%
Number of bloggers who aren’t as funny in person as on their blog: 2 or 10%

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