snow day

one of my favorite things about having a little dog manifests itself when there's 31 inches billion (and still falling!) of snow on the ground.
it's a cruel world for dogs when their toilets are covered by more snow than they can even stand in.

he'd jump into a pile of snow, disappear for a second, try digging an area where he could at least squat, give up and jump back out. Half a dozen attempts left him doing what every dog despises doing - peeing on the patio

and when he comes back inside, he's got a nice little set of nature-made UGGs on (please ignore my lovely face).

...one of my favorite things about snow days is that it gives you the uninterrupted time to plow through your entire inbox, organize all your files, practice the guitar, read a little bit and still have time to do things like take pictures of your dog peeing outside and then blog about it.

babies r bite size

everytime i go into a baby store, like babies r us, i'm so overwhelmed by all the "necessary" crap in there, my face probably looks something like this.

luckily, i've discovered a couple of things to help make it all better for me:

1. www.babysteals.com (not to be confused with babyseals.com). i've become obsessed with this site. just ask the boy. here's the skinny - every day at 9am MST, they post a new deal of the day. only one deal every day. that's it. and only a limited number of whatever said deal is. which makes me want to buy everything regardless of what it is just because it means i'm getting one before they're sold out. like, why would i ever want this, but i bet if it showed up on babysteals.com, i'd buy it anyway.

and to top it off, they tell me right there how much of a discount i'm getting on the item. which makes me REALLY want to buy whatever it is just so i can say i got a great deal on it. they've really tapped into the female psyche on this one..

i'd rather not talk about how many times "baby steals" has shown up in our last few credit card bills...

2. milo's so (not) excited to have a baby sister that he's willingly offered to help sample some baby things for us. which is great because he's bite size, just like the baby will be

bassinet: check

baby sling: check

he didn't quite fit into the sleep sack i just made, but it's a little girly for him anyway...

then the boy reminded me that milo walks around where there's lots of poop. and he rolls in dirt on a regular basis. and then i reminded the boy that our baby will most likely try EATING poop and dirt at some point. and that's when i won that discussion.

...and then i secretly went upstairs and started the washing machine.

how big is your purse?

you know how sometimes stores attach their pens to fake flowers and stick them in a pot on the checkout counter so you can never find them when you're ready to sign the credit card form and you stand there waiting for them to give you a pen and they look at you like you're stupid and say, "uh.. the pens are in the pot, dummy"?

don't be fooled - stores not only do this to make you feel like an idiot, but they also like to make it harder for people to pocket their pens, which i guess i can understand. although, not to sound like i'm a pro at thieving or anything, but stealing a flower pen just seems like a more exhilarating and rewarding challenge to me and not all that much harder than stealing a normal pen sans silk petals. plus, then you have a nice little craft project you can tell your friends you made to impress them.

what's even funnier is when you need a key to get into a public restroom and they tie that key to something like a ping-pong paddle thinking that you can't steal it if there's a paddle involved. i mean, if someone's got it in their head that there's nothing cooler than swiping the only access to a public bathroom, you better believe taking a key AND a bonus prize paddle only adds to the fun and honestly isn't that much harder to walk away with.

at least, those were my thoughts until i asked for the bathroom key at a little grocery store in albuquerque the other day. now these guys have it figured out!

AN ENTIRE COOLING VENT!! talk about a mistrust in your customers.