It’s Wednesday and I’m feeling a little random today. Want proof? Here’s a picture of Garrett wearing a jaunty pirate hat. For no reason.
BAM!
Anyway, I’m traveling for work today which means while you read this I am probably riding in the car with my boss for many hours, shaking someone’s hand, smiling and nodding, or kissing babies or something. YAY! Please just stuff that jealousy right back down where it came from.
Soooooooooooo, while I do that fun stuff, here are some completely arbitrary things from around the internet. I wish I could find some creative thread to link them all, but instead they will just be all over the map. Like me today, actually. HEY-O! That was some creativity for you right there! If we were on Jeopardy this would be the Potpurri category. But I will not be quite as snide, snippy, snooty-pants as Alex Trebek.
I hope.
Well, I won’t correct your French pronounciation, that’s for sure.
Anyway — here are some things!
*I came across this funny post about 65 Rules for Successful Living and it made me nod my and laugh hysterically in equal parts. (It’s full of “colorful” language, so beware.) #2 is basically my motto in life. #26 is SO. Darn. True. I want to tell everyone in the world #35. #38 took me like 30 years to learn. I love the graphic for #57. Oh man, just go read it.
*I fell down a rabbit hole of Parenting Book Recommendations the other day that started with this post. Weird I know. I like rabbit holes. The more random the better. Anyway, while I don’t think a book is going to teach me how to “do everything right” when it comes to having a kid, I am a book lover (as you know!) and so when I have a chance to learn about something in book form it excites me! Anyway, that was my long winded way of asking if YOU read any interesting books about conception/being pregnant/having a little one that you would recommend. Alert: NOT PREGNANT, it’s just on my mind.
*I liked this mix of Summer Songs. (Still not sick of this Robyn album! That is a damn good album!) What is it about summer that just REQUIRES fun music? We’ve been listening to a lot around around here, but can I confess something to you? Summer 2012 is totally going to be the summer of Call Me Maybe, and I’m not even upset about it. 🙂
*This shirt makes me laugh. I need some more pithy shirts to add to my (very small) collection. Scratch that, make it tank tops. (Here, how about this one? HILARIOUS) It’s too damn hot for t-shirts lately!
*This was an interesting post about Cleansing and Fasting. The internet is always talking about one or the other, so it was nice to learn a little something about how the body works with respect to both. It’s very science-y though. Drink a cup of coffee first.
*Did you think Alt Summit sounded cool? Did you know you there is an Alt Summit Channel that offers classes you can take when you are bored at work feel like learning?
*Do you subscribe to the Oprah philosophy of not eating after a certain time at night? 5pm? 6pm? Whatever. Ask yourself if that seems to have worked for Oprah. Then read this. Then quit worrying about it and eat when your body tells you to eat.
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Ok, your turn to let your arbitrary-nature shine! Leave me a link of something fun to read. I’ll be in the car a lot today, remember? I need a reason to furrow my brow and pretend to be reading something important. 🙂
omg, thanks for posting the 65 rules for living. never seen that before. LOVE IT.
My husband has worked with children under five for almost twenty years and is pretty much an expert on the devlopment of toddlers and pre-school aged children. He recommends ‘The Incredible Years’ by Carolyn Webster-Stratton and says it is probably the best book on the subject he’s ever encountered.
It might be a method that is really only known in the UK but toddlers and parenting are pretty much universal!
Thanks Califia!
I may or may not have just bought Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” yesterday. I can’t freaking help it. I know I’m too old, but I can’t help but dance every time I hear it. And, we all need excuses for dancing these days.
The 65 rules were very funny. Of course, now I want to write one…
Call me maybe might be my most favorite song on right now; there I admitted it maybe there is a twelve step program for thirty somethings that love Carly Rae Jepsen. The 65 Rules love them some are so right on and some so bizarre.
I don’t have kids of my own but I take care of babies for a living (both of whom are napping right now, yay!) and that Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Babies book was vital for me getting started. I also found that my own “parenting” philosophy jives well with the woman who wrote the Baby Whisperer books. I have friends who had excellent results with Baby Wise, but taken to extremes it can get ugly (like everything, right?).
True Story! Thanks for the suggestions, Amber!
Call Me Maybe just gets in the brain! Have you seen the “routine” the Harvard baseball team does to the song while in their van on a road trip? Hilarious. And, ahem, smart…funny…baseball players…what’s not to love?
Yes, that video was hilaaaaaaaaaaaarious!
HOLLY!! I just found you yesterday and now I want to tell you that I love you. You have effectively vacuumed away all my free time today trying to learn all about your books, style, food, etc. You rock. Thanks to Melicious for leading me to you. 🙂
Aw, thanks Ellen! 🙂