Back in L.A. That’s EIGHT flights so far in two weeks. Only one more to go, and it’s the one I’m looking forward to most of all…

It appears I am not the only person addicted to vampire smut.

LED Baby Booties. Those are too cute!

Lightsaber chopsticks FTW!

Well, I made it to Indiana. I caught the red-eye from LA to Chicago at 11pm Friday night, and I landed in South Bend six hours later. As expected, I’m pretty wiped out. Today we had a big cookout at my Mom’s house and I got to meet my new nephew Isaiah. He’s a cutie! I’ll have pictures. Tomorrow we’re doing the same thing over at my Dad’s. I also got to go for a run tonight with my Mom, who was calibrating her new Nike+ system. We’ve already got a distance challenge set up!

David Attenborough is alarmed because half of British kids can’t identify some common plants and animals. I took the quiz myself (there’s a link to the popup on that article) and – sorry, David – I SUCKED. I’ll hide the rest of my comments in case you want to try it yourself.Okay, first off, the British obviously use “Daddy Long Legs” for a completely different thing that the Americans do. Since when do they have WINGS? Yeah, that’s a totally different thing so I don’t feel bad for not knowing it.

Some of them I overthought a bit, like “elk” instead of just “deer.”

I’m terrible with plants. Really, just terrible. Couldn’t get any of them.

And ewwww, was that otter just about to eat a rat? Nasty.

And now a shout-out for me… My sock monkey tutorial got featured on The Crafty Crow, a “children’s craft collective.” If you have kids or work with them, that site has some great ideas for crafts you can do together.

The SMH stages a race to prove what a lot of us already know: traffic in Sydney SUCKS. It also makes me want to buy a scooter.