So sad

My Yahoo Mail ticker brought up the story of the father who threw his children off a bridge. I am linking to CNN because I think that's Parker's favorite news source. Reading that story just makes me sick. There's a Vietnamese population in the southern AL area? Didn't know that. This website says there are about 2600 Vietnamese in Bayou La Batre, a place I only am familiar with because of Forrest Gump. And this article has some more stats. The shrimp industry was calling.

With the other story about the murdered pregnant Marine, it's disheartening to know how many sickos are out there.

bus and sidewalk etiquette

It was one of those days when all the buses and trains are going in the direction you're not going. If you ride a bus and it's crowded and you're in a two person seat, sit by the window. Don't be an ass! You're not special! Argh. And don't have obnoxious cell phone conversations if you have a loud irritating accent. On the bus, I saw a youngish Asian-American father and his daughter talk about eyebrow waxing. The daughter was around older elementary or middle school, I guess. I don't think my dad knows what eyebrow waxing is.

Oscar nominations come out January 22. I hope they don't screw them up.

the knitty gritty

Soundtrack for this post: the Six Feet Under soundtrack volume 2

Someone please comment to an entry! Please?

Down to business. Parker, you'll be happy to know that your knitting needle case has spurred me to pick up the sticks and start manipulating yarn again (despite a little warm spell here). Even added a new pair of needles to my collection today too, size 7s. I'm excited about my current project, and you'll see a pic up on my Flickr portfolio when it's done. But I was not excited about dropping a pretty penny on yarn. I totally need a Michael's in my neighborhood.

cooking with cats, not cooking cats

Aren't these the cutest things? I love Susie of boygirlparty's stuff so much, and Parker is well aware of this fact!

I heart Yoshi the cat

I was trying to find a rockin' printable calendar for the month of January, but I wasn't having much luck. Finally I resorted to the old standby of printing out a month from Microsoft Outlook. But I found this in a Google search, and seriously, it is one of the funniest things, maybe not ever, but at least of this year so far. My favorites are the Princess Leia and Jackie Kennedy ones.

Poor tannenbaums

I feel bad for discarded Christmas trees, just lying there on the cold dirty sidewalk. They only get their day in the sun for a few weeks, and then they're tossed out. Poor things.

Also, I am convinced that someday I will meet my maker via death by bicycle. No, I won't be riding the bicycle, but I will crash into a psycho delivery person on one. Those guys are nuts. Anyone who wants to ride a bicycle in the city, usually without a helmet, is out of his mind. Traffic light? What's that? Pedestrian? Eh, whatever. Yes, mark my words: death by delivery person on a bicycle.

Now that Christmas and New Year's are over, we have Valentine's Day to look forward to. Sarcasm. Shopping is annoying, especially at places like drug stores and Target/Wal-Marts because of all the holiday product pushes. Ugh.