Read ALL the blogs!

I used to enjoy Garfield and Archie as a kid. As an adult, I am not a big reader of comics. About once every year or two, when I pick up a paper I will read the comics, but I don't really get much out of it. I haven't really seen much in graphic novels or the like. I am definitely a visual person, but in the case of comics, it seems to go to slow for me, and I get bored. Well, I'm here to tell ya that I found some "comics" that I love, and they are found on two blogs. My oldest daughter and I spent some time over the weekend looking at these blogs and I would love to share my favourite entries with you.


Disclaimer: One thing I don't enjoy about these blogs is that they have some profanity. The blogs are funny enough that I am willing to suffer through it for the laugh, but sadly, the profanity sometimes ruins the joke (for me anyway), because I am too busy making a face, like the one you have when you eat a lemon, to remember what I was reading about.


Blog: Hyperbole and a Half


post: dog


post: The Party


post: The A lot is Better Than you at Everything


Blog: Parenting. Illustrated with Crappy Pictures


I think you will get the most out of this blog if you have kids, but if you don't have any, it will still be amusing (my 17 year old daughter loves it).


post: I did these things as a kid (but my kids won't)


post: While mama was in the bathroom - episode 1
I love it when people are brutally honest about things that people never talk about. I guess that pretty much sums up why this blog is funny. She is not afraid to talk about ANYTHING!


post: public toilets vs. newly potty trained girls and boys


Enjoy! Remember laughter is the best medicine (says the girl who is just getting over her first cold in almost 2 years and spent good time in the last four days reading these blogs to get the biggest dose of "medicine" possible).

New Uses for Plastic Easter Eggs

I came across an interesting blog today and thought I would share this beautiful, crafty post for turning plastic easter eggs into oh so wonderful and softly beautiful "robin's eggs". I know I have some of those lying around here and I am sure I haven't used them for years. I am on an any shade of turquoise kick and have been for a while. It is just one of those colors that makes you feel good.

I also noticed that there was a comment below the robin's egg entry from someone who re-used the eggs by filling them with homemade silly putty and gifting them. If you are not into the robin's eggs, that would be another great way to get an extra mile out of them.

Bargain Decorating Finds

I subscribe to Style at Home magazine. It is a Canadian magazine, which is nice for me, as many times when reading U.S. magazines, us Canadians find that we are not allowed to enter the contests, products listed are not shipped to Canada and not available in Canadian stores. Even if you don't subscribe, there is lots of great stuff to discover on their website. I also subscribe to their newsletter, which brings me interesting tidbits right to my inbox.


I received a newsletter this morning with the subject line being "Budget Friendly Living Spaces". They sure know how to entice this gal. The 20 living room accessories under $20 article jumped right out at me first. There are some great low cost items listed to either almost outfit a whole room or for a little bit of extra pop. The item that had me drooling a little was the aquamarine candlesticks! Some of the items (including the heavenly candlesticks) could probably be created at home for even more budget stretching ability. For instance, the making the sheer curtains would only take a beginner level sewing ability, and the candlesticks would only require a successful goodwill trip and some spray paint. Throw pillows are a pretty simple one too.

Ahhhh, Nostalgia. Anyone remember these guys?

Once upon a time, I loved the martians from Sesame Street...well, maybe I still love the martians, and that is why I want to share them with you. My girls and I just watched some of their videos on youtube. I also love youtube. There are so many things from my childhood that I can just pull up anytime I want to and share with my children.


There are many more Sesame Street alien videos on youtube. Even though the two below, aren't the ones with the most views, these are my personal favorites.

More Videos About the Pacific Garbage Patch

I am posting again about the pacific garbage patch because since my first post I have actually seen some visual evidence of it myself. Our family recently took a vacation to Hawaii. I have been there many times before as a child, but this was my first time as an adult. The beaches were all fine on the two islands we were at, that is, until we took a drive to a fairly deserted residential stretch of beach that it looked like not too many tourists ventured upon. You know how stones get smoothed out by water? Of course, the same thing happens to plastic. This beach was filled with nice little smooth flat stones, but these stones were not made of rock, they were colorful bits of plastic with nicely rounded edges. It was sad and disheartening. I started to try and gather bits to take back with me to a garbage can (and where would that end up going after anyway), but quickly realized the magnitude of the amount of plastic present on this very large beach and how little difference I was making. One of the videos says that the only real way we can make a difference is to reduce consumption. I am willing to give a very genuine effort towards that. Will you join me?


The following video has a lot of the same images as the one I posted in this post, but this one is set to music instead of being a news story, so for me anyway, it gives a little bit more of a haunting, dire feeling. There is also a very horrific image of a dead turtle in this one, that I think is more disgusting, and therefore more motivating (to get rid of plastic) than any other image I have seen so far. Just imagine for a minute what that turtle had to endure before it was finally given the peace of death.





The following video is basically an expansion of the information presented by Good Morning America.

Christmas with Pomplamoose

Christmas is over, but I found a great video of a house decorated with lights timed to the Pomplamoose rendition of Mr. Sandman. The guy who decorated the house does it every year. He has a website where you can watch videos of many years of house light displays. There is also a neat FAQ section that talks about how much the power bills for these displays come to and other details of the process.

Clutter Free Gifts

I am having a hate-hate relationship with clutter right now. My mom is coming for the holidays. She is an amazing super mom lady and she always does the cooking and cleaning and many other helpful things when she comes to visit. This leaves me free to do things that she can't necessarily do, like catch up on some homschooling with the kids or decluttering. So, I am hoping to get a lot of decluttering done during the holidays. My mom and I go out and buy our Christmas presents ourselves that we plan for the other person to give us. That way we get something we need/want, and not something that will just clutter up our lives and not really have a use. I'm sorry if that doesn't sound Christmas-y to you, but we really enjoy Christmas this way.

If I do get a "surprise" gift, I hope that it is something that can be used up (christmas baking, nut tray, my favorite products, fruit basket, free babysitting, etc) and won't create clutter in my life.

Today I came across an article from Simple Organic listing 5 Clutter-Free Gifts to Give This Christmas

I would not mind if I did not get any Christmas gifts at all (gifts are not my Love Language), but as long as I am getting some, I sure would much prefer the clutter-free kind they are talking about. I wouldn't even mind socks - in fact Bamboo socks are on my "list". Smile.