I think I'm in love...

with this man...

No good deed goes unpunished

So I was lazily reading blogs over the weekend and I came across this blog with the cute little pumpkin treats for teacher appreciation week. Now, I am not niave enough to expect anything for teacher appreciation week. All I got for Christmas was a horribly nasty phone message. But Isaac has two wonderful and devoted preschool teachers who definitely need to be recognized. And while I don't think I can make a cute stamped box like the one featured, I thought I ought to be able to whip up some pumpkin bread and do something cute with packaging. And, in light of my new quest for domesticity, I decided I would NOT get a pumpkin bread mix, but I would make it from scratch. Now, Cathee and Christi I am not, but I thought I could manage pumpkin bread. So I bought the ingredients yesterday but decided I would wait until today to bake them. Well around 9ish I figured I should stop nodding off to Lita videos and get cracking. I forgot that bread takes a lot longer than cookies to make. Like, six times as long. Whoops. Then I realized we didn't have enough flour, so I had to run out to the store and buy more. Whoops. And now I sit and wait. And hopefully not burn anything...

Wow

This shaving cream smells amazing!

confessions

As much as I enjoy my every other Friday night to myself.... There is something very sad about returning home, and knowing Isaac isn't asleep in his room. I miss him when he is at his dad's.

Silver linings

Apparently while I was at work today about 3897433487 people came through to see the house, requiring my mother to be out of the house with Isaac for roughly five hours. I am praying for our house to miraculously sell in, like, a week because I don't know how much more we can take of this.

Anyways, Isaac has about one more pair of clean pants, so I went to toss some of his clothes into the washer and I see this sign on the door.

Rats. It came out kind of far away and blurry. Well, it says "ELDERLY CAT IN GARAGE". For some reason, this has struck me as hilarious and I have been rolling around laughing about this for the past ten minutes or so. I don't know why on earth our cat was banished to the garage or why any perspective home buyers would possibly need a warning about her, but (in my warped mind) it is pretty hilarious.

Under pressure....

My parents house officially has a For Sale Sign in front of it. It's so sad. It's also means that now everything has to be hidden, boxed up, cleaned up, picked up, etc, because at any moment someone could be coming over to see the place and we have to disappear leaving behind an immaculate house. This does not mix well with a stubborn preschooler who is prone to tantrums...

Duh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971578.stm Shopping sprees linked to periods Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw loves to shop Women may be able to blame impulse buys and extravagant shopping on their time of the month, research suggests. In the 10 days before their periods began women were more likely to go on a spending spree, a study found. Psychologists believe shopping could be a way for premenstrual women to deal with the negative emotions created by their hormonal changes. Professor Karen Pine will present her work to a British Psychological Society meeting in Brighton later this week. She asked 443 women aged 18 to 50 about their spending habits. The spending behaviour tends to be a reaction to intense emotions Professor Pine Almost two-thirds of the 153 women studied who were in the later stages of their menstrual cycle - known as the luteal phase - admitted they had bought something on an impulse and more than half said they had overspent by more than £25. A handful of the women said they had overspent by more than £250. And many felt remorse later. Professor Pine, of the University of Hertfordshire, said: "Spending was less controlled, more impulsive and more excessive for women in the luteal phase. "The spending behaviour tends to be a reaction to intense emotions. They are feeling stressed or depressed and are more likely to go shopping to cheer themselves up and using it to regulate their emotions." Hormonal She said much of this could be explained by hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle. And the findings were exaggerated in the women with severe PMT. "We are getting surges and fluctuations in hormones which affect the part of the brain linked to emotions and inhibitory control. So the behaviour we found is not surprising." Another explanation might be that women are buying items to make themselves feel more attractive - coinciding with the time of ovulation when they are most fertile, typically around 14 days before the start of a period. Most of the purchases made by the women were for adornment, including jewellery, make-up and high heels. Professor Pine said: "Other researchers have found there is an ornamental effect around the time of ovulation." Researchers have found women tend to dress to impress during their fertile days. Professor Pine, author of the book Sheconomics, said if women were worried about their spending behaviour they might avoid going shopping in the week before their period was due.