random thoughts

i hate oatmeal. well i do love oatmeal - the nice instant sachet kind that you just pour hot water on and stir and eat - but my children are tyrants and like the stand over a pan and diiiiie of boredom kind that takes hooours to prepare and then leaves a thick untouchablably gross skin on the pan all day :| so today i decided to be a good mom (with a viciously lazy streak always) and compromise and make the fancy 'old fashioned' kind, but in the microwave. the oatmeal admittedly is from IRELAND where the people are renowned for being a little slow (but oh so nice, my Dad's family are Irish so i can talk trash about the Irish:)

so i stood and waited 3 excrutiating minutes for it to be ready, opened the door... and the oatmeal was GONE... it was all over the turntable and walls and absolutely none left in the little container - it didn't say i needed to put a lid on it!!!!! argh my LAST scoop too... bastards!!!! bad terrible mother that i am... i scooped it off the turntable, studded it with bright shiny blueberries and served it up :| i suck.

another thing that sucks - facebook. yes same story different day.... blahblahblahblahblahblah. you know when someone posts some tear-jerking link to some distant kid being sick and everyone does their little comments afterwards like how they are going to hug their kids a little tighter tonight.... sigh. i wonder, don't they always hug their kids tight? and if not, why not?

and how come i hear a whoooole lot from certain people - i even know before/during/after they eat a peach/workout/start to edit pictures but i find the status update free friends are the ones i'm most intrigued and fascinated by... and when they DO update their status i hang on the words for days checking back to see if they added another golden nugget of info to the end of the string of comments from their excited, status hungry friends. i wonder how busy and awesome their lives must be that they never have time to update or be online. sigh.

a completely random nugget of useless information: did you know that 70% of bagel shops are in just 4 states??? uhuh. sure i can't remember the states now but they are the nice ones on the coasts.

why i love rats:

• they are affectionate and don't bite... i have given them ample reasons to bite me and they flatly refuse to (i could NOT say the same for Gilbert the hamster)
• they snuggle in your hand and fall asleep within a minute or so
• they love to rough house and roll on their back and wrestle
• they are cuuuuute
• they giggle when they are having fun
• they love yogurt too, they eat it off a spoon

on my to-do list:
build this beautiful rattie townhome for my boys (photo from Robyn)

Robyn i am in total awe of your rattie awesomeness!!!! your site is the best thing EVER and has ignited in my power tool lovin' heart a spark of excitement and creativity!!

just in case you forgot what my little puppies look like....

and just in case you forgot what my bigger puppies look like... here we are getting our Vegas sunglasses at the novelty store

more later - maybe with progress pictures of my 5th Ave rattie mansion ;)