General

you know you’re getting old when…

You start diluting your peach, grape and strawberry punch with water.

hilarity (in case you haven’t seen it yet)

bedtime

Bedtime is sometimes the best time of the day… for all of us. Now if only I could sleep as well as some other members of our household, I’d be set.

church

Which do you think is worse: sleeping during church or taking a picture of someone who is sleeping during church?

Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey

It seems as though Downton Abbey has been a bit of a craze amongst late-adopting Americans recently. Personally, I love the show. Imagine my surprise when College Humor (which is comprised of mostly geeky/techy MALE comedians, who normally wouldn’t be into these types of shows) produced the following parody video:

 

Do you watch Downton Abbey?

please explain

Can someone please explain to me why it is that the organic Gerber baby food has so many random ingredients, and the non-organic does not?

I started out making Graciela’s baby food. However, sometimes we don’t eat anything for dinner that I can just mash or put in the food processor for her. So I figured I needed some backups for such times. I’ve been trying to stick to things that don’t have tons of preservatives in them, because I really don’t see why a baby should have that kind of junk in their system, but this is baffling.

indiana

Apparently drivers in Indiana are not permitted to make right-hand turns at red lights. I was stuck behind this guy, and despite the fact that there was not a single car coming, he refused to turn right until the green light came on. And yes, I honked.