If you haven’t already, you must see this.

tending the AeroGarden. . .

Hill: The basil is getting really high. It is almost touching the light. Should we move the light?
Steve: We’ll just have to use it in whatever we make for dinner.
Hill: But it’s both kinds of basil! What can we make for dinner that has two kinds of basil in it?
Steve: Two basil stew?
Hill: Didn’t you go to school with him?
Steve: *Laughs. Then, because he is Steve. . . * No.

Elsewhere

"How do you have a pen that says PayPal on it like it’s someplace that you go?" -my brother, mystified

"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb." -Garfield Minus Garfield

Hill: You need to go to this website. It is called Garfield Minus Garfield.
*Minutes later*
Sam: Wait, so what was that site? John, just John?

"Hill, I just discovered this site. It’s called *sounds it out* C-ra-ig’s-List. People are selling stuff here!" -my father, thinking he made an amazing discovering

Here are a few little quickies that are just not enough for a blog post all their own:

RIP Kermit Love, one of the Muppet founding fathers and the designer of many of their most famous characters, passed away. He was 91. No, Kermit the Frog was not named after him. I think the man must have answered that question in every interview he ever did.

You will be pleased to know that my dislike of Obama and McCain both has subsided into bored complacency with the entire election. Now, instead of being all excited about who I want for president and the bright new world that would bring that I had before, I am now sort of like, "Eh, whatever. Let’s just get this stupid thing over with."

I know that Hillary Clinton has to kiss up to her party and make Obama president but I personally wouldn’t blame her if she took a solid month-long nap. Remind me never to campaign for anything, it looks exhausting.

On a related note, every time the media gets on someone now for something racist that was said, it makes me filled with Hulk-like rage because sexism gets worse each day and no one says boo. I never realized how much it upset me until this election.

In case you haven’t noticed, I am trying to write at least 2 posts about eBay a week. I am going to try to make them less rant like in the future, however. Sometimes the ranting has a mind of its own.

I am torn on how to feel about Hulk Hogan. On one side, he seems like he is a jerk who raised a jerk of a son and cheated on his wife. On the other side, he is a friend to the Muppets. Anyone who is a friend to the Muppets cannot be all bad, right?

According to Zillow, our house went down not only the 30,000 it went up after we purchased it, but also another 70,000 or so below what we paid for it. I know that we aren’t selling it for many years yet. I know that Zillow is not a real measure of anything. I know that the housing market has to eventually get better. But, all the same, this saddened me.

I watched Atonement with my husband last night. (Finally! We have had it from Blockbuster for a full month). It was good, but obviously very depressing. However, it was not perfect. There are some movies that I see that I just walk away feeling like they were completely flawless. This was not one of those movies. There were awkwardly filmed scenes, extraneous characters, and other very tiny things about it that, while they didn’t prevent me from enjoying it, distracted me from getting totally lost in it. That and it was driving me crazy that I couldn’t remember what other movie that one actress was from. (The answer is As You Like It, if you are curious.)

On a side note, before we rented As You Like It, I was reading the reviews and someone wrote, "Life is too short to sit through Shakespeare." I do not agree, obviously, but I thought that was funny. Oh and the movie was pretty bad. I usually love Kenneth B but I think he really misdirected this one. And I can totally say that because I played Rosalind in college.

I just finished Pure Drivel by Steve Martin. I enjoyed it but it also annoyed me on some level. The whole book is basically just 1 to 2 page short pieces. They aren’t even short stories. It will just be something like, What does a dog think about when he barks at the FedEx man? with a comedy twist at the end. Some of them were very funny, don’t get me wrong. But dear god, I have hundreds of little pieces like that all over my computer. The book annoyed me because I cannot imagine that any book publisher would publish little silly pieces like that for a normal author like me. I think you would sort of have to be Steve Martin to get that kind of special treatment. So I guess what I am saying is that it made me want to write a book just like that when I realize that I am not famous enough to have anyone buy a book just like that from me.

I know that as an eBay seller I am supposed to be all angry that they struck a special deal with Buy.com (if this special deal exists, as there is debate about its reality). But I wanted to buy this cooling lap desk for my laptop and they had the best price and shipped it insanely fast and I love the thing so I am a having a hard time getting in on the hate.

The number of beers I will drink has increased by one. Corona Light and now this Wild Blueberry beer I had in RI.