PTA + PETA=TEE

Saturday morning, I took El Rey to a Kindergarten playdate at his new school. I still can't believe my baby is starting Kindergarten.

So what do you get when you mix a PTA member and PETA? My new favorite Tee-Shirt:



This PTA Dad was nice enough to let me take his picture, because I loved his tee so much. In case you cannot read it, it says:

PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals
All God's Creatures Look Best Next to the Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Word!

Magnifiscent Day

My last day as a woman of leisure was a pleasure.

There was so much shopping to do before I return to work on Tuesday. I needed to purchase a few business casual pieces in the next size up, since I still can't fit into any of my old clothes. Boooooooh! To chear myself up, I did what any glam girl would do: I bought makeup, perfume, nail polish and shoes! Those make me happy in any size.

My favorite purchases were a new shade of nail-polish from the Lippman Collection, and new fragrance, "Lil' Angel" by Hara Juku Lovers.

Sorry for the blurry pic.

I recommend (to my one and only reader) that you run, don't walk to Nordies to check these out (if you don't own one already). The fragrances are "magnifiscent," and best of all, do not appear to aggravate my allergies. I am especially thrilled about that, because after selling men's fragrances for three years back in college, I became deathly allergic to just about all fragrances. Now I can finally add a second fragrance to my list of tolerables--the first being Chance by Chanel.

The Hara Juku Lovers collection actually consists of five adorable fragrances. I selected Lil' Angel, because it is light, fresh and clean. Baby smells like coconuts so one can smell like suntan lotion all year round! Priced at a reasonable $45 each, how is a girl to resist collecting all five?!!!

Butterflies and Thunder-thighs

Today I took El Rey, Baby Glam and Looky to the Natural History Museum. Baby Glam seemed to really enjoy looking at all of the plants and butterflies in the Pavilion of Wings Exhibit, and Looky seemed to really enjoy looking at Baby Glam.

Part of me hopes Baby Glam's hair never stops sticking straight up. It's like she already has her own signature look. . .

El Rey loves to hold his baby sister, but Baby Glam isn't too crazy about the idea yet. I just want to eat up her yummy thunder-thighs!

The dinosaur exhibit is STILL closed for renovations, but I enjoyed El Rey's exhibition even more. Here is his impersonation of a T-Rex.

As much as I love my job, I am bummed that I go back to work in just 6 short days. I am going to miss these relaxing afternoons. . .

Thanks Peter Griffin and Ben Gibbard!

For most of my life, television shows and commercials were filled with jokes I didn't "get" and unfamiliar tunes that I mistook for original. Then one day, as if the skies opened and a ray of light shone down, I understood. Suddenly, every joke and cultural reference spoke directly to me and I "got" them all. Commercials, for the most part, started playing familiar songs from either the playlist of my youth or my current playlist. That's when I knew, for the first time, that I'm getting old. My contempories, not some old guy in a suit, are writing this stuff and putting it on the air. I think I was watching Family Guy and a commercial came on and played Postal Service at the time this startling revelation hit me. I'm reminded every time I hear Death Cab for Cutie in a darn commercial.

I think this all means that I've hit "middle age." That dreaded time in life when you are no longer young, but still think you are, and are teetering on the brink of being "old." I guess I will know I'm old when all these writers and execs retire and television once again becomes an unfamilar place filled with jokes I don't get and tunes I've never heard.