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Dear blog,
Sorry I've ignored you. I was painting the living room. I'm sure you understand.
me

Here is a talk by the author of Eat, Pray, Love, which I have not read, because I am assuming its popularity means it's trite and overly religious. I have no idea if that's true, of course, because of the aforementioned not having read it. Anyway, this talk is interesting. I find myself in the position of wanting to buy into this concept like crazy, but being too stubbornly non-spiritual to be able to. I do agree with the end idea of showing up and doing your thing fearlessly. Watch the video. It's worth 20 minutes of attention.

about Kenny Loggins, Jesus and bad theater...

Seriously, just click here. Really. Truly.

I love earrings

I want every pair of earrings in this shop. How fabulous are these?

Etsy CuteJewels

singoff 5

And here is what we have learned from the SingOff:

1. What's-her-name is definitely more tolerable singing than speaking. Same for the host of the show.

2. Ben Folds for sure used to be a muppet.

3. We should probably buy Sheryl Crow's new album.

4. I still really really want to do vocal percussion.

Though my personal favorite was Talk of the Town, I'm pleased that Committed won. I hope they tour and make records and have a blast with it. So much talent, and a fair amount of humility, too. Don't you love that?

playdough

While I was making the ugly cookies from yesterday, I also made playdough for the kids for Christmas. It turned out really nice - perfect playdough consistency. What more could a person want?

This one's cherry-scented with red food coloring. I have about 8 boxes of food coloring in my cupboard, and only 2 still had red. Now I have no red, which will be annoying next time I need it and think to myself, oh, there's plenty of food coloring in there, no need to buy any.

This one's chocolate-scented with red and green coloring, which will - hopefully - make brown when mixed. I decided to leave the playdough only partially mixed so the kids can do the mixing and watch the solid color appear. That's always fun. And educational. And is in no way related to the fact that I am too lazy to mix it myself.

Lousy photo, but you get the idea. How cute are these little containers? Also, my eh, 5 times the recipe ought to be about right calculation somehow managed to make exactly enough playdough to fill the exact number of containers that I needed. Not sure how that happened.