As a rule, I try not to be jealous of infants, despite the fact that there are many people in their lives who consent to entertain them, lug them around, and basically exist just to meet their needs. That’s coupled with an extremely limited ability to communicate, very limited mobility, and no Internet. So I’m on Team Auntie.
Still, when I see pictures like this, it’s difficult to say that I definitely have it better than my Porkchop. The kid just had her first ever bath, and already she knows how to wear her robe and slippers with panache, looking as relaxed as Hef after Jacuzzi time. Ew. Sorry. Anyway, I am at work, not at home, and wearing actual clothing, not a nice fluffy robe.
I’m going to have to call this one a victory for Team Porkchop.
Of course stuff like this gets me all hot and bothered. I am a librarian, after all!
(Pay no attention to the jailbait-masquerading-as-a-professional photo that accompanies the article.)
People!! It’s almost time for Spa Week, wherein you can find awesome $50 dollar deals for facials, massages, waxes, etc without having to pore over the latest from Groupon. The dates this year are from April 11 – 17th (which is also National Library Week, which may also make you a little giggly). To find out what spas in your area are participating, and which services they offer, click here.
Your body will thank me.
This is what Porkchop is wearing right now. I didn’t buy it, and it isn’t true, but I do appreciate that she’s already trying to help me protect my interests.
And here’s Glenn Beck, implying that the Japanese earthquake, and subsequent tsunamis/aftershocks/nuclear reactor failures, etc were somehow God’s way of communicating that people are not doing what we’re supposed to be (which is…?). Apparently this hack was just on vacation, but he wasn’t gone long enough for me to miss him. Pity.
Image via Chris Seddon
I don’t care what you’re doing today, it’s probably not awesome as what these kids are doing. The Christian Science Monitor always has the best pictures (and stories, but I’m sleepy today, so I need something interesting to look at).
Over the last few weeks, I have come to realize that it is infinitely easier to make a baby a sweater than a blanket. Why did I have to make so many baby blankets before braving a sweater???? I may never make another blanket again. I feel like I should make sweaters for all of those babies and now-toddlers for who m I never got around to making blankets.
I made Porkchop a cute little sweater for her baby shower (the only picture I have is pretty awful, so I’m not posting it here), but wasn’t 100% in love with it as a first effort. There had been another sweater from that same pattern book that I would have liked to make, but I lost the book, and it wasn’t a huge enough priority to buy it again. Coincidentally, a woman in my knitting group had a stitch pattern that I liked, and I just decided that what worked for her scarf would work equally well for my next sweater.
So far, so good. Maybe I’ve found something to do with all that excess yarn I’ve been collecting over the years…
A man exited a plane because it was piloted by a woman. Seriously? I wish that he’d been forced to buy a new ticket.
Last week was a good one in the Nonsensical family. My nephew, Satanski, turned six, and Porkchop, his little sister, made a surprise appearance three weeks early. She’s like a tiny doll (at not quite five pounds, she doesn’t even feel real), and is way too easy to knit/shop for. Other people’s kids are the bomb.
I said that I’d root my phone and install Froyo, and last Friday I did! Go Nicole, go Nicole! I’m pretty good with computers, and I had lots of experience putting new roms on my HTC Tilt2, but I was really intimidated by the thought of touching my precious Android phone. I LOVE my phone, the Samsung Captive (AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S). It’s great for lots of things that I love, such as playing WordFeud, reading my NOOKBooks, and listening to podcasts, and I didn’t want to break it. The only thing I didn’t love about it was how slow it was. Slow is relative, since it was still faster than any other phone I’d previously owned, but I knew it was capable of more. Android 2.2 had been out for several months before I even got my phone. In fact, I’d bought it in October believing that AT&T would be updating it to Froyo almost immediately. Why? Oh yeah, because that’s what AT&T kept saying. Then November, December, and January came and went without any timetable for the upgrade. I kept holding out for AT&T, partially out of fear of messing up my phone, but also because I wanted to give them the chance to give me the official Captivate version of Froyo. What finally convinced me to take matters into my own hand was the announcement that the next line of Galaxy S phones was on their way.
I thought that rooting my phone and installing a new ROM would be a difficult process, but actually it was very easy. I guess I lucked out a bit, due to waiting for so long (I love it when my indecision works for me). Right after I decided to do the upgrades on my own, I ran across this post, How to Root Samsung Galaxy S, Captivate and Vibrant, which provided a one-step rooting process. So neat, so simple! Then I went to my good friends at XDA Developers and read this guide to learn how to put a new ROM on my phone. If you can follow directions, it’s pretty simple. I did everything in the guide (except for the rooting part, since I’d already done that), and it turned out exactly the way things were supposed to. So now I have the very sweet Phoenix Rising ROM on my phone, and I couldn’t be happier. See?
April 19, 2011 10:29 am | 
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