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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.

My wonderful husband sent me a link to this article about the results of a women’s body survey. (Warning: The image at the top might not be safe for work.) The results? While women chose a skinny model as their ideal, men chose a much curvier shape. And the majority of guys also said that they were perfectly happy with their partner’s body, and they only thing they wish is that we would be happier and more confident. Isn’t that great? He’s the best. 🙂