Two of my favorite things

The Things of My Soul

Mormon Mommy Wars.


Ray (the author of the first) is a wonderful, intelligent, considerate person who writes some great stuff. I love reading it. I feel a lot of peace, when I do... and it contrasts nicely with a lot of the bitter, combative stuff written about (and sometimes, by) Mormons in the blogosphere.

Mormon Mommy wars is Just Hilarious. In the very best (clean) way.

my little rennaisance woman

So, my daughter has a homeschool assignment that she is currently working on: write words, or phrases, that describe what you want to be, or do, when you grow up. She's been working away. she asks me how to spell some words as she goes along:

Loli: Mom, how do you spell "Artist?"
(aw. she's said she wants to be an artist ever since she was four years old. My cute little artist.)

I spell it for her. A moment later:

Loli: Mom, how do you spell, "Baker?":
(Cute. I can see her in a little baker's cap... a smudge of flower on her nose..)

I spell it for her. A moment later:

Loli: Mom, how do you spell "musician?"
(whoa. she knows the word, musician? where did she learn that?)

I spell it for her. A moment later:

Loli: Mom, how do you spell, "train?"
(Huh?)

I spell it for her. A moment later:

Loli: Mom, how do you spell, "nurse?"

My head is starting to swim. This is one girl who can pay for her own college. That's all I have to say about that.

Why do you vote for someone?

I'd love it if you join me in a discussion of this very interesting topic.

One of my favorite broadway moments

If you ever sing this in anything Camilla, please let me know so I can come.

pigs'n'ponies

I stumbled upon this website and I completely, absolutely, am in love. But who has that much time? I ask you?

But it's got a lot of really, really cute ideas for special occasions. Go take a look if you've got little girls and are sometimes fishing for a really cute hair idea...

Leprechaun terminology...

I'm trying to find a word. Usually I can get it in about a day if I'm searching enough, but this one has alluded me.

What is the leprechaun slang for being kidnapped?

It's not shangheid.

It's not shilelaugh (that's the stick leprechauns carry).

Thank you for your assistance.

Seriously reaching...

Is it just me, or have there been extremely awful commercials on TV lately? Either completely weird, or laughably silly dialogue, or just... obscenely illogical promises. Here are my favorites:

courtesy of Dave:



another, courtesy of the Nice one.


What!?!





The feminist in me is tempted to get angsty about this one... but it's just so dumb, I laugh intsead. I just can't muster that feminist agnst.

I have taken this one down due to (very legitimate) complaints and instead created a link. Watch it if you want to, but my advice is only watch the first five seconds or so of it... it gets pretty weird and disturbing. The worst part is one of the girls using his chocolate belly button to fondue a strawberry... it looks much worse, though.

Odd, disturbing, and... somehow vaguely racist? Maybe that's just my white guilt talking.


This one made me laugh out loud, the first three times I saw it. I wish I had the dialogue written down somewhere. I could use it in a future story or something. But it's not worth the trouble of transcribing.



There are plenty more. If you guys know of any, I"ll look them up on Youtube and add them to this post. Haha. It's so much more fun to make fun of American consumerism than to get angry about it...