Alex says that kid’s saying, “Fuck you, fuck this, I’m outta here.”

Freaking adorable hat, though.

I want these for every day wear. I know they’re costume boots, but I think they’re awesome. Also, I’m a freaking super hero. I feel like I’m savin’ the day every day. These would be my work boots.

Alex was so excited about this litter box he was shouting. It was Amazon.com’s deal of the day - 43% off. He’d been talking about our need to go back to an automated litter box and this one is a great deal and SUPER simple to clean up. The only thing is, the ongoing costs are high - the litter tray refills are like $17 a piece and they’ll likely only last us two weeks. We’ll have to figure out a way to reduce that cost - I’ve actually spent about an hour researching that this morning and found “forever litter trays” on ebay that are plastic instead of disposable. They’re expensive - almost as much as the litter box itself, but if we find that we like the box then we’ll probably go for it because spending $34 a month in litter is obnoxious… Anyway, it’ll be awesome to go back to having an automated box. Fiona doesn’t cover her poo (gross, I know) and it smelled SO BAD we were gagging.

Awesome cat post. Ugh. I am NOT a cat lady!!!

So I really love shopping on Amazon.com because of the enormous selection, the generally great prices, and the user reviews of products in an easy to use and navigate interface. I also love the wish list feature, especially when it comes to my birthday and Christmas. I used to keep a Google Wish List when they called Google Shopping “Froogle” but I haven’t updated that in a while. So today I was doing some “wishful shopping” (which is what I call it when I know that I’m too poor to buy myself things but I still feel the urge to shop online so I go online and put a bunch of things into my “shopping bags” at various online merchants and then just close out the page instead of buying anything) and I thought that since it’s almost November I should probably create a wish list that can be emailed to people when they ask me what I want for Christmas. I was just thinking that it’d be great if I could add things from outside of Amazon.com to that wishlist when I noticed their “universal wish list button”. Let’s you add items to your Amazon.com wishlist that are sold on sites other than amazon.com. Brilliant!

(My Wish List)

Look at the toes!!! Awwwww…

Crap, I’m my mom. LOL.

I stumbled across an article that said that Google rolled out a search index from 2001 in honor of its 10th birthday (yep, 2001 was only 7 years ago, but apparently that’s the oldest index they could find). I started to play around searching things to see what the internet was like in 2001. I Googled my (maiden) name and only got references to my cousin, Heather (who was on the Quinnipiac [sp?] volleyball team and had a teammate named Alison). Then I Googled iPhone and got references to an old internet phone device (with 56k modem - wow!) which I thought was pretty funny/interesting.

Then I thought waaaaay back to 2001 and remembered that I was teaching Winter Guard at Shen at that time, so I Googled Shen Winter Guard and came up with only a few listings. The first was for the Shen Novice Winter Guard Home Page that I set up that year. Awwwwwww. Unfortunately, it wasn’t actually archived on the Internet Archive, so I couldn’t view it - which would have been interesting. I’m wracking my brains to try and remember what that site would have looked like… It was one of the first sites I ever did so I’m sure it wasn’t all that wondrous (not that this one is…). I think that I just went with something simple like Green and White. Awwww. That was so long ago. My little novice girlies are all grown up now - the girls that I taught my first year have probably graduated from college by now. Wow. I’m old…

I must be really over-tired. I was on retailmenot.com looking for a coupon for Best Buy (where I’m planning on getting Alex’s Birthday Gift) when I saw this post mixed in among all of the normal coupon links. I literally laughed so hard that I cried. Hiccups and all.