The Love Show!

Google's Sesame Street 40th anniversary homepage love continues!



Cookie Monster's pretty much the greatest thing ever, so...it's awesome to see him on The Google (TM). Nice addition to a day otherwise dominated by train delays and the Phillies' World Series loss!

I'm really excited for the new season. Seeing the same 5 episodes over and over again, for months on end, has been kind of depressing. Although, I doubt Bryan is old enough to have noticed, yet. Repetition is still the bee's knees with him.

Yet another shirt that came from a lunch discussion with my work gals.



A discussion about U.S. citizenship history tests led to a discussion about how most Americans don't know much about American history, which led to a discussion about the handful of presidents it's actually important to know, which led to a discussion about which presidents are on which monetary denominations, which led to a question about which is the guy who's on one of the bills who wasn't a president, which led to a discussion about how Ben Franklin hangs out right across the street, which led to an aside about how "Ben" and "Betsy Ross" got f'realz married not long ago, which led to a discussion of famous women in American history and how they're underrepresented on the currency, which, somehow, caused one of us to remember Sacajawea, which Corina couldn't pronounce, which forced me to make light of her mispronunciation, which led to...the word on the shirt.

How does one spell that woman's name? The spelling just a few lines back was a guess.

Anyway, name mash-up...explained!

Thought Up: Tuesday, at lunch
With: Corina, Erica
Fun Fact (TM): Corina was actually the one who said, "T-shirt!"

I played a lot of Harvest Moon...several weeks ago. But, I've been busy with a number of projects, recently, and haven't been able to pick up a Wiimote and find my way back to Waffle Island.

Let me at least get you up to speed. I'll make it quick, since my memory's faded.

Dates Played: Year 2, Spring 17-Summer ??
House Level: 5
Coop Level: 2
Barn Level: 1
Chickens: 12
Cows: 3
Horses: 1
Silkworms: 1
Sheep: 1
Marital Status: Married to Renee (<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3)
Major Purchases: Another farm field, so I could plant a ton of cocoa seeds and continue to harvest those big-money strawberries. Probably a bunch of other things. The strawberries have brought in HUGE profits, and I've been putting it both into the farm and investing in items I'll need to complete Harvest Sprite requests, soon.

There. Now, here's what's up...



-My horse randomly got sick, one day. I'd been riding Hazel around the farm, hopped off to water some crops, and...boink. Random. Easily fixed, though.

-I came in second in the Animal Festival, which is a huge disappointment, in my book! I brush, talk to, milk and fleece animals daily. Religiously. What a rip-off! I'll never forget Phoebe and her stupid frog...

-I won the mini-game at the Animal Festival, too! First time I've actually done well on one of those. I think you try to throw frogs for distance, or something.

-Renee and I are doing quite well, thanks. She's still useless around the farm, though. Natsume? Please, let the spouses help out, at some point? Even if it's just once in a while.

-I have TONS to water ever day, now. I don't get off the farm until almost noon, most mornings. But, I've got over 90,000g just sitting there, so...mo' money, baby. I'll probably (finally) upgrade my barn, soon...even though I really don't want to invest too much in more animals.

-I fish a lot. Wish I could get to the second Gull Island...I'd like to find a tuna now, to avoid a hang-up later with a Rainbow Recipe. (Melissa's currently hunting for one of them there particular fishies right now, too.)

-So. Much. Cocoa. Awesome!

-I really have to focus on improving relations with more of my fellow Waffelonians. It was such a focus in previous HM games, I feel like a jerk for not putting in more effort!



That's that. I've probably left out several interesting things. For example, I've tried at least two more times to catch a Kingfish at the bottom of the Ganache Mine. Nothing, even though I've seen a little fish shadow in the water. Bah!

Enough, enough.

A lot of farming, and some big-money crops are growing around Sadowski Ranch.

The animals are lovely, and I'm keeping them healthy.

Now, I just have to find the time to play.

Buying/fixing up the new house, watching TV/the World Series, putting Bry to bed and my current addiction to the recently-downloaded NES classic, Startropics, aren't helping!

[WEEDS ARE GROWING]

Check out the Google home page. There's a little plug for Sesame Street, as the 40th season premiers on Tuesday, November 10th.

If you click on Big Bird's feet, you just get sent to an embarrassingly uncool and heartless search results for page for "sesame street." No little page made up especially for this occasion. Oh, well.

Still, cute.

[FOLLOW GOOGLE THAT BIRD!]

Lousy weather has made it difficult to get a lot done at the new place. Sure, we've been unpacking a lot of boxes. Sure, the kitchen's really coming together. Sure, I've discovered the true joys of wallpaper remover spray. And, sure, Bryan has pretty much memorized the scant selection of DVD's available for viewing over there.

But, it could be worse.

I rounded out the firebush out front, which was shortened about 3 feet by Melissa's dad a few weekends ago...but ended up coming out as kind of a flat top.



Now, it's more of a pleasing, Fry Kid shape.



The kitchen's in pretty good shape. Most cabinets and drawers (and there are a ton) are lined, and they're filling up rapidly as we unearth our plates, utensils, appliances, etc.

But, there's still plenty to be done.

The front lawn is a leaf-covered nightmare, right now. So, now that a non-rainy weekend seems to be approaching, I'll have to take care of that mess. There are several bush stumps to be removed in front of the house. We'll be using a hatchet to help with the roots, this time around.

Painting has to start, this weekend.

We've selected colors, and will likely buy a few cans one night this week, so we can get a jump on it on Saturday.

It's fun.

It's stressful.

It's hard to get things done, and time is limited.

But, completely worth it.

The three of us camped out in the living room, last weekend. Movies, pillows, blankets, jammies...it was great. Sure, the floor isn't the most comfortable place to sleeep, but it felt good to steal a night and enjoy sleeping in our home as a family.

What else?

Too much.

Things to fix. Rooms to paint. Calls to make.

But, it'll get done. It'll feel really good to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with the fam, and with all of our stuff finally in place.