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• I am approaching my 500th post. I say that now, four posts away, because chances are I will forget to say anything when I actually post my 500th post. All I can say about my 500th post is I never imagined I would post 500 times. I thought my blog would be a fart in the wind. Sometimes I still think it is a fart in the wind, just lingering a bit long, or it's a fart that actually smells in the wind. Those are rare. They happen.
• Remember those fancy red slippers I bought when I was feeling lazy? I took Cole out last night for his bedtime duty in those fancy red slippers and came back into the house, all the way to the kitchen (which is about as far as it gets in this house from the back door), and realized I stepped in his shit. So not only did I ruin my slippers, I tracked globs of wet stinky dog poop all through the longest route of the house. I hit a few rugs, too. That I still haven't washed.
  
• When I first started my blog, I downloaded Google's photo sharing software, Picasa, so that I could post pictures. Figuring out Picasa was a pain in the ass for me. So I gave up on it and never looked back. Until today, when I downloaded Picasa again. The editing functions are fabulous! Easy! User-friendly! Now that I am a slave to both Adobe Elements and Flickr, the tables could be turning. We'll see. But if you find digital photo editing rough, I would encourage you to discover Picasa (again). It's really terrific.
• Today I bought a tiny copy of Martha Stewart's Good Things in the Kitchen. It's adorable.
• My serious older sister, who is so serious she is actually fluent in German and has been known to date German males, is completely smitten for someone who is completely smitten right back. He is not German, by the way. When she first met him months ago, she told herself he was the man she was going to marry. Isn't that cute? My mom said the same thing about my dad. Christ, how 1956 is my family? Not really. I just love gushers, and my sister is being a total gusher.
  
• Have you seen that program on A&E called King of Cars? Best. Theme. Song. Ever. It's ridiculous. I totally boogie to it when it the program starts...