non sequiturs

it's good to have some sort of understanding about animals. that way you can tell the difference between when they are reacting to a normal animal thing or when they are freaking out because the world is about to end.

carl has lately been lamenting the return of skinny jeans. he picks odd things to get his panties in a bunch about.

so many people i see around me are so unbelievably irresponsible with money that it boggles my mind. or at the very least engage in behaviors i don't understand.

i can not believe all of the things that i have forgotten about my past.

i'm not sure what i think about global warming. i definitely think that something is happening and that we (humans) have greatly and adversely effected the world. but the extent of it and dire circumstances of it - - - a lot of people seem to be backing off lately about just how bad it is and when we're gonna die :) so anyway, i'm open to arguments to the contrary of the 'inconvenient truth' but not when it comes from dumb asses with observations like - well, it snowed in october and therefore there can't be global **warming**. do just a little bit of reading before you open your d-bag mouth.

i more or less registered today. at the very least i got an infant car seat so we can take the baby home. well, we could except we have no names so - we aren't going to be able tow leave the hospital. oddly i feel like perhaps i didn't do it right - the buying of the car seat that is - because i didn't agonize over it for weeks and research eight thousand different ones etc etc so this is an excerpt of the conversation with my mother at babies r us
me: i'm looking for a mattress pad for the cradle
her: did you see these
me: that's not it that's just a pad that sits on top
her: are you sure? (while she opens it and then lays it out) yeah, see - how is this not a mattress pad, cassie?
me: it doesn't have gathers - to wrap underneath the mattress
her: i don't understand
me: i want the same thing you have for your bed that goes over the mattress and then you put the sheet on top only
her: OH - you want a mattress pad
me: er, yeah, that's why i said i want a mattress pad for
her: but you want it to fit on the cradle
me: right - that would be the part where i said 'for a cradle'
- - - i can't make this shit up

my grandmother loved icecream. carl remarked yesterday that all old people love icecream. i'm going to need to move to vermont in my old age (home of ben and jerry's) - plus, it'll be good when i finally decide to go full on lesbian.

i just spent the last ten minutes trying to find out who first mixed chocolate and caramel. i came up empty but whoever it was - thanks you.

a friend of mine was recently talking to a friend of ours from high school. oddly enough - she and i did not know each other in high school despite knowing many of the same people. anyway, this person told her to say hi and then told her how i was such a pink floyd freak in high school. so funny. i mean i was - i listened to the wall for a couple of months every day. it's just a funny thing to be known or remembered for. i actually remember at the end of senior year writing a poem. the overall sentiment was one of detachment. there was a line 'and even the floyd becomes meaningless'. LOL

we got the bed in the kid's room. dresser will arrive friday along witht he serice guy to look at the damage on the bed. it arrived that way. called them miutes after they had left. but despite the damage i have to say - i loe the bed - i love the set up of the room. and even better - the boy LOVES it; he keeps saying 'i have to go sleep for a little while'