Buys Can Be Cat Ladies, Too!

Double your pleasure: the author's is named Showalter, my name if I had been a boy. (Okay, I'm cheating, it's his LAST name...)

Apparently, this is a real thing, and it only costs $398.99! 

There is no pain at the doctor's

Don't worry. I just have a broken tooth. The terrible shooting pain is only when I chew gum. In two weeks, they'll patch it up with hot glue and I'll be fine. But why can't the dentist acknowledge pain? All doctors are like this. Even when you're in labor, they're all like, "Breathe." As if breathing will distract you from the wild spawn ripping out of your body right then.[For those of you who haven't given birth: it's just like that scene in Alien when the monster rips out of her stomach, except that it comes out of your vagina, which is of course much more terrifying.]

Exciting Nonfiction

Screen shot from the Scholastic Reading site, in a spot which was set up just for Little Z's first grade class.



Nonfiction has changed a lot since I was in first grade!

The Atlantic Ocean has moved!

(Please click on the image to see what I mean.)

Wow, I need to update my geography skills.

Thanks, Dad, for pointing this out!