{"id":1036,"date":"2003-07-22T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/07\/whats-on-my-mind-today.html"},"modified":"2003-07-22T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T13:02:00","slug":"whats-on-my-mind-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/07\/whats-on-my-mind-today.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s On My Mind Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>On NPR this morning: &#8220;Last night the Red Sox pounded the lowly Tigers, fourteen to five, at Fenway. Tonight they complete their two-game series.&#8221; Do two games really a series make? Wouldn&#8217;t you say that two games is more like a game and its sequel?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>I know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volkswagen.org\/a1\/RabbitGTI.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[1036]\">Rabbit<\/a> I drove in high school didn&#8217;t have cup holders. I would prop my morning can of Diet Coke between my legs when I had to shift gears (no power in this car&#8211;it took two hands to do everything, even, practically, change the radio station), hoping it wouldn&#8217;t spill. Now I can&#8217;t live without my car cup holder. But I don&#8217;t remember when they became ubiquitous. When was the first time I saw a cup holder? These are the important things in life that slip my mind.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adam&#8217;s getting a little tiny roll of fat around his waist. (Adam has heretofore been known as the skinniest man alive). I can&#8217;t think of anything that&#8217;s made me happier than Adam saying, &#8220;Ohmygod, I&#8217;m getting fat.&#8221; Welcome to my world. Of course, I have an excuse. He just has an ever-increasing tailor&#8217;s bill as he goes in to have his suit pants let out.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Is anyone else as over-the-top excited, can&#8217;t-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-it thrilled that the eleventh edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0877798095\/jennyspage-20\">Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Collegiate Dictionary<\/a> is out? It&#8217;s such a pleasant surprise&#8211;I had no idea it was on its way. I looked at my tenth edition&#8211;which is inscribed &#8220;from your little sister, June 1993&#8221;&#8211;and was shocked that ten years had gone by. I remember how exciting it was when the tenth came out. Looking the book over, I noticed it was pretty worn. The cover is loose, some of the pages are bent (I have a bad habit of having to look the same word up over and over&#8211;some words just look wrong to me no matter how many times I see them). I guess it&#8217;s time. You know, I hear dictionaries make great baby gifts. Maybe I should put in on our baby registry. Oh, who am I kidding. I can&#8217;t wait that long to get my hands on it.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>My knitting teacher said to put flat buttons on the baby sweater I&#8217;ve made. &#8220;It will be more comfortable for the baby.&#8221; &#8220;Why,&#8221; I asked, &#8220;should I be worried about his comfort? He&#8217;s not worried about mine? Payback, you know, is a bitch.&#8221; I think I threw her a little and she said, &#8220;Oh, he doesn&#8217;t mean to make you uncomfortable now.&#8221; To which I said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know the baby&#8217;s father. I&#8217;m betting this is completely intentional.&#8221; Rounded buttons, anyone?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0440416795\/jennyspage-20\">Harriet the Spy<\/a> had been born in the &#8217;80s, she&#8217;d be a blogger, too.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>How long do I have to spend on my hands and knees with my butt in the air before this baby turns himself (the pediatrician&#8217;s suggestion)? Do I really need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/expert\/2063.html\">shine a flashlight up there<\/a>? Blah.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>When the microwave instructions say, &#8220;Leave in microwave 1 to 2 minutes after cooking,&#8221; does anyone <i>really<\/i> do that? Doesn&#8217;t everyone have a line behind them at the office microwave? Who has this luxury?<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Who knew that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/products\/kisses.shtml\">Hershey&#8217;s Kisses<\/a> now come in dark chocolate! Mmmm, dark chocolate. Ohmygod: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheyskisses.com\/htm\/crafts.htm\">crafts from Kisses<\/a>. Maybe next holiday season I&#8217;ll make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheyskisses.com\/htm\/crafts_6512_menorah.htm\">Kiss Menorah<\/a>. Oh, if I only were a goy.  (Hey, that can be sung to the tune of <a href=\"http:\/\/thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com\/movie\/cmp\/r-lyrics.html\">&#8220;If I Only Had a Brain&#8221;<\/a>!) The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheyskisses.com\/htm\/crafts_6514_angelic.htm\">centerpiece<\/a> I could make!<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour.php?id=photos\/2003\/tour03\/stage15\/tdf2003-armstrong-mayo-49\">this guy<\/a> ever be able to live down being the guy who made Lance Armstrong crash? It makes me feel better. No matter how much I may screw things up, at least I didn&#8217;t make Lance Armstrong crash. (Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenewei.com\/weblog\/weblog.html\">Eugene<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On NPR this morning: &#8220;Last night the Red Sox pounded the lowly Tigers, fourteen to five, at Fenway. Tonight they complete their two-game series.&#8221; Do two games really a series make? Wouldn&#8217;t you say that two games is more like a game and its sequel? 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