Flooded Lizard Kingdom

It's hard to take them to work and forget them in your desk drawer.

A dog can catch Hepatitis from eating a toad.

(To clarify, I just read about that. The Dog is not allowed to eat toads, so she is fine. As far as I know. But she's at home alone unsupervised, so who knows what she's up to?)

You can use U.S. stamps to mail a letter to Sudan.

You cannot include any loose gemstones or precious metals in your letter.

Having my first meal of the day at 3:00 p.m. at Sonic. Feel yucky.

H-E-B grocery stores close on Easter.

The Amy's Ice Cream on Burnet Road does not.

I only like the very outside coating of Freshmint Tic Tacs.

Socks made of bamboo don't last very well.

When you forget your lunch, having a backup cup of soup in your desk is a good thing. Unless you don't have a backup spoon. Then it's less helpful.

Eating a big piece of Italian Cream Cake at 10:45 a.m. is not a good idea.

However, eating a carrot with some peanut butter and taking a 15+ minute walk can help restore equlibrium.

1. I really need an MP3 CD for work called "Chill the Fuck Out."
2. The worst taste in the world is when the Lunesta pill gets wet and the blue coating starts to flake off, but you take it anyway because you don't realize it's going to be a big deal and hey, these things cost money.

The Dog will not lick sesame-garlic salad dressing off the floor, no matter how much of it C-Man spills by shaking the bottle even though the cap isn't really screwed on.

• Figuring out that when you have an Excel spreadsheet that's too big for PowerPoint to deal with, such that it cuts off the rightmost columns no matter how small you make the pasted-in sheet, you can instead paste the sheet in as a picture and then you can do anything you want to it.
• Holding the result of said PowerPoint bitch-slap up against the boss's window to signal victory. (The window is inside. So I guess it's actually a glass wall. It's not like I'm Spider Man and I crawled out the window to show her the slide.)
• Slicing colby jack cheese with the biggest knife I own.

People who live in Michigan call themselves Michiganders.

Eating yogurt with a fork is actually possible.

Also, in contrast to C-Man's criticism of my spelling, it CAN actually be spelled yogurt OR yoghurt.

The Chinese word for crisis is NOT composed of the words "danger" and "opportunity."

North and South Holland are only two of the provinces in the Netherlands, and as per Wikipedia Dutch is the English word that means "of or relating to the Netherlands" and is also the name of the language that is mostly spoken there.

Don't watch Law and Order with a law student who hates television shows.

*I learned this yesterday, actually, but then the computer had frozen up by the time I went to blog and I was too tired to reboot, etc. I hope you understand.

Note to self.

It's less helpful when the box of spaghetti has been opened at both ends.

Or, more aptly, things I have recently learned:

1. If you call UPS and ask them to re-route your package to your work address because you won't ever be at home during the day, they can do that. (Apparently vegetarian marshmallows need a signature.)
2. I cannot write substantial blog posts on 4-5 hours of sleep per night (and thus I am failing in my pre-New Year's blogging resolution).
3. My boss has never met me. (I know this one because she bought me a sparkly pink heart necklace as a holiday present.)

I am going to bed now.

The Dog does not eat raw yellow squash.

The Princess should not eat 12 Starburst at one time on a virtually empty stomach, no matter how vegetarian they are.

• Squash doesn't keep as long in the fridge as do brussels sprouts.
• I don't have quite enough tupperware to support the strategy of doing all the prep work for three cooking projects ahead of time.
• Corollary: my water bottle holds exactly 1 pound of cubed tofu.
• I hate raw carrots.
• So does The Dog.