A Road Trip Through Little Man's Lense

Hey! Little Man here! Mom and me and Aunt Holliberry and Little Brother and my fire engine went on a car trip. I took some pictures so you could see.


Here's my knee:

Here's my nose, and my mouth, and my teeth:

Here's my chin:
It was sunny sometimes, but it was also cloudy and rainy:
We saw lots of nature. Like this grass:
Have I mentioned I like giraffes? Here's our giraffe sticker:

Here's Little Brother:

Little Brother expressing his opinion about something crazy Aunt Holliberry just said:

Or maybe he was just reading this sign:

Sometimes Sacrifices Have to Be Made

Yes, sacrifice. Like the rough, rough sacrifice of looking at this cute face for hours at a time.

Little Blue Eyes, here, smiled, cooed, and was generally adorable. And for the very difficult task of snuggling with him and playing games to make him smile, I got a color, cut, and eyebrow wax.

Isn't it cute? KJ (the girl formerly known as my roommate) made a trade with me. And yes, I covered my face. But you get to see Kermie's face, so it's like a trade. To help you feel like you are here with me, I will tell you that it is very soft, and I can toss my hair around like the Vidal Sassoon girl. Also it smells really really good from the shampoo and conditioner and hair product. Maybe later I will make K take a picture of it in the sun for me to post so you can see all the red.

Important Facts from a Template

So my apartment complex sends out a nice template newsletter each month along with those treasures they type up themselves that I have already quoted from. In it, you can read all kinds of random facts which pretty much have nothing to do with where you live.

Like, did you know that if you have stale chips, you can put them in the microwave for 30 seconds, let them stand for a minute, and they will be crisp again? How handy is that? I don't know if I can bring myself to eat even once-stale chips, because I have a huge aversion to old crackers and chips, but maybe....

Also, strawberries have some of the natural ingredients found in aspirin. So possibly eating some could help that nasty headache!

June 1st is National Go Barefoot Day. Then you clean out your closet and donate your shoes to http://www.soles4souls.org/. I bet they would still take them, even though it's not June 1st. And I give you permission to go barefoot today. Have your boss call me if he/she has any questions (Dizzle I dare you).

Who knew!? (Yes, smarty pants, I'm sure one of you knew at least one of these facts. Go ahead. Brag.)

(facts provided by Illustratus)

Oink.

Have you heard about the latest swine flu fatality? Tragic.

June in Western Washington

I live somewhere pretty. Do you?

Things To Do When You Don't Have a Job

1. Put up those shelves you've been meaning to put up for the last 6 months.

2. Cook things. Like fancy omelets. This one is an egg, goat cheese, mushroom and avocado omelet with salt and pepper. It was quite good, but it was missing something. What was it missing, smarty pants cooking people?

That's It. Employers Have Gone 'Round the Bend.

The good news is that all the crazies making odd business decisions are giving me plenty of fodder for my blog. With that said, I have to ask, what on earth is going on? Did you hear about this? Basically one lovely city has started requiring all your web membership info (MyFace, personal websites, online groups you belong to, etc), including password, so they can nose into your life. So many thoughts tumbling through my head.

First, this has got to be a violation somehow of some law that employers should be following. If it's not, it should be. They have no right to look in my personal accounts. If they can't find me using the handy, dandy cyber-stalking tools I've already told you about, then I say it's none of their business. If you are worried about character, check their references, call former employers, and do a background check. Novel concept. Having interviewed hundreds of volunteers, you can general identify the crazies right off the bat. And if they slip through, you have policies in place to catch the weirdness or prevent it.

Second, how do they know if you gave them all the info? if your settings are all to private on everything, and there are no real identifying features of where an account holder lives, it could be someone else with a similar name. So how do they know if you handed everything over? I personally might be hard-pressed to argue that if I attached both my names, but that's part of the reason I don't. I don't WANT to be found by certain people. Like crazies and potential employers. It's not because I do crazy things, or say inappropriate things, or have anything to hide. It's because I like to have a private life. My last boss knew I had a blog and could have cared less, since she has an aversion to all things computer-related. But she also knew I wasn't writing things that she needed to be concerned about.

Third, these people are idiots. And I'm glad I don't live there. And if this becomes a thing, someone better darn well sue and take it to the supreme court if they have to. I'm not okay with this.