Aaron made an interesting observation today. We now have Milo and Otis.

I think in the movie Milo is actually an orange cat, but on the video cover he looks just like Stewie.

On my way to work I pass a billboard for Turkey Hill's new Smoothie Frozen Yogurt. The rest of the day at the office I think about Green Tea Mango Frozen Yogurt. Two of my most favorite flavors in one.

When I went to the website this was the largest image of the Green Tea Mango I could find. Honestly... could it be any smaller? *squint squint*

I sat next to Aprille last night at an office dinner when she ordered a pot of hot tea. It came with wedges of lemons... wearing shower caps!

I was amused and baffled as to why each lemon had a little shower cap on. The internet to the rescue. A search revealed that the lemon bags are used to keep the seeds out when you squeeze the juice out of the lemon! Clever. I can't help but come up with alternative uses for them though. Golf ball cozies. Slippers for cats.

The Rochester Insider had a story on blogging and featured five Rochester bloggers this week. It gives a good quick explaination of what blogs are and tips for good blogging.

The story starts off with a paragraph anticipating bloggers being critical of the story... and I have to say I am kinda bummed about the article.

No... not because I wasn't in it (bah-hah!)... but because all five bloggers... are guys! "A study by market research firm Perseus Development Corp says more women than men start blogs, and women are more likely to maintain them." (quote found here) So couldn't they find even one female blogger in Rochester?

This is not the first lack of visibility for female bloggers... "Susan Mernit points out that just 5 of the 100 blogs selected by CNET for the CNET 100 have a woman as a principal author." (quote found here)

Bummer.

World... meet Stewart. Stu... meet world.

Stewart has not grasped the concept of sitting still for pictures yet... but in my house he will catch on. Till then... fuzzy cat noses.

Folks seem surprised to hear how well Oscar and Stewie get on... I figure Stewie thinks Oscar is just a really tubby, funny looking cat.

More pictures on my EasyShare Gallery.

Yep... we adopted a kitty. His name was Bazooka, but we are changing it to Stewart... Stewie for short... Stu for super short. Amy and I convinced Aaron that this was the perfect kitty for us. He is rather lazy. Should get along great with Oscar.

What are Aaron and I up to?

The shower was a success. The table of Lauren heads were a little eerie but the jungle animal cupcakes Sarah and Lisa made were a huge hit. Especially amongst the little squirts... if the frosting covered faces are anything to go by. Tina toted home all sorts of goodies for wee Lauren. A good time was had by all.

Pictures here in my EasyShare Gallery.

Aaron's sister is in town visiting and we have drug her all over town on baby shower errands. I did manage to get the favors done. Like I said, the shower theme is jungle animals with spring garden mixed in. The favors are a copper container with a packet of herb seeds, two pouches of peanut m&m's and a "Lauren" seed packet. I need to do a project page for all the shower plans and my blown rubber stamped eggs.

This past week I hit our Target's 75% off Easter sales. One of my big finds was a Naughty Naughty Pets dog shirt. Doesn't Oscar look thrilled?

It is baby shower prep central at the house of Ljc.

Lauren's baby shower is Sunday and the theme is jungle animals.... with a little bit of spring garden thrown in. Two themes are better than one!

This is the jungle animal invite I made from scanned in drink stirrers. I also got foamy animal stickers for the back of the envelopes. Jungle animals only... no domesticated animals allowed.

This Easter I learned that the Easter Bunny is very tall and has a cruel sense of humor. My basket was found hanging wayyyy up in a tree. He made up for it though by giving me the whole crew of Naughty Naughty Bunnies from Target. Even Oscar got a Naughty Naughty Pet squeaky toy.

The Easter Bunny was especially good to my mom. Her Power Mac 7200 that she played snood and solitare on exploded two months ago and despite her insistance she could live without it... she was going through obvious withdrawl. Instead of eggs and candy, she found a "previously enjoyed" iMac with games, pictures and music already loaded and ready to go.

Here are more pictures from Easter on my Gallery Page.

I thought I was so clever this Easter. I was talking about using a baby booger sucker for blowing out the eggs when Greta said "Oh yeah I bought something like that for eggs online."

Then I had Aaron drive nails through a board so I could dry the dyed eggs on it. I sent a cell phone pic to Tina exclaiming my ingeniousness and she replied... "I saw Martha using something like that when she made her chocolate filled eggs".

I am not going to make it onto American Inventor at this rate.

We got back from Pennsylvania late last night. These are some bug eggs I made with a kit Aaron got me. More pictures of eggs and whatnot tomorrow.

 

Happy Easter everyone!

Aaron brought me home a lovely Easter lily. The only problem is the poinsetta he brought me at Christmas is still hanging around. I have never had one survive so long.

It bothers me having the two together... it's like having a Christmas tree with Easter eggs on it.

I made a lot of these blown eggs. I owe my life to a cheaply purchased baby booger sucker. It blew the egg guts out like a dream.

I made all my friends these blown eggs with their names stamped on them as Easter treats. I won't make them hunt around the yard for them though.

I found these giant plastic Easter eggs at the Dollar Tree and bought enough for my window boxes.

Yes... they are sitting on faux pine branches left over from Christmas. It's okay... I turned off the red and green twinkle lights.

My dad sent me an email this morning about a ginormous rabbit in England that is eating the local's vegetables. Just like Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Wererabbit!

This picture accompanied the story... but it is not the elusive hungry bunny. The picture is of Robert... a giant rabbit that lives in Germany.

Hmmmm... he looks big enough to carry a basket of eggs and chocolate.

Tina told me about the new Dawn foaming dish soap.

That is almost as exciting as when they put the foaming hand soap in my office rest room.

It's got me wondering what else might be good as foam.

Contact solution? Probably not. Shampoo... ahhh! Toothpaste? Maybe. Ketchup? Um no.

When I saw the VW fast ad online, I didn't know what the critter in it was. A reader told me to check out vwfeatures.com. There you can customize a GTI and take it for a test drive. The last thing you customize is your "fast"... the critter... which is a rabbit. You can give him different tails.

I tried it with a picture of Ernie... but he didn't look as fast as the other rabbit.

When I got to Starbucks for Sit & Knit this evening I was happy to see they were bringing back some green tea drinks. They definitely had a green theme going on... leaves printed with tea facts and other springy items.

Once I sat down, we noticed packs of cards sitting on tables. They had strange words on them. So did the cup sleeves. Turns out it's a promotion for a movie coming out called akeelah and the bee. I am not surprised... Starbucks has been successful at promoting music... why not movies?

So the movie is about a "precocious eleven-year-old girl with a gift for spelling" that goes on to the national spelling bee. What is it with spelling bee movies? Last year it was Bee Season. Before that it was Spellbound. For me... the thought of standing in front of hundreds of people and having to spell autochthonous... these movies should fall in the horror genre.

Ironstef tipped me off in comments that there are two new cooking shows coming to the Food Network. I was really excited to hear about Alton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt... where he travels and stops by "secret hamburger hideaways" and diners. My DVR records two episodes of Good Eats a day and somedays that doesn't even seem like enough. I would love to know where he would eat if he came to Rochester.

The second show... dare I say is even more exciting... is a new Nigella show... Nigella Feasts. (a lot of feasting going on) There will probably be a lot of feasting at my house too... when ever I watch these shows I have to scuttle to the kitchen and try to make the same thing.

I was able to snag some of the super popular children's book postage stamps for Tina's baby shower invites.

The Maisy and the Very Hungry Catepillar stamps are also being released in the UK. Their other six stamps are other story books... like Paddington Bear.

Super cute. I need a panel for myself. I mean... not like I'm a stamp collector or anything. *ahem*

Eleven years ago I painted my dad for a college project. Four years ago I painted Grizzy and Punky for Tina's birthday.

This weekend I busted out my paint box and painted a bewildered chick peep staggering away from it's shell. Interesting progression.

I really enjoy painting old windows like this... but something just occured to me. There's gotta be lead paint on them. Hmmmm.

I was poking through Yahoo! Picks when I discovered that the Pirate Rubber Duckie Group of Flickr was featured on April 2nd! Several of my pictures were referenced... PRD with Blythe, PRD in Ottawa, PRD with Oscar, PRD being licked by a cow.

Check it out! PRD is famous!

Remember the Kodak commercials that were running a bit ago that had the kids in the gallery? I get choked up everytime I see the older gentleman looking at the photo of his wife.

Well, now you can go and create a Kodak commercial with your own pictures in it! Go check out the one I made. It starts off with a picture of my parent's wedding, and later on you see my baby picture, Tina and I , Oscar, and then Aaron and I on our wedding day.

I would love to see everyone making their own commercial and posting links to them on their blogs. Just include your own email address in the "friends" emails and copy the url you are sent to your blog.

Send invites to all your friends and get them making commercials too.

Come back and post the url in my comments, so me and everyone that comes here can see your commercial!

At this point anyone running for president that promised to get rid of daylight savings time would get my vote.

After many years... guess who is painting again?