my little sweety

So, this weekend, my child said something that I thought was too cute not to share.

Yesterday, Kat and I got to work on cleaning her room. She has a nice, big room and its just filled to the brim with toys, a lot of which she doesn't actually use anymore. Its overwhelming. Everytime she goes in there to play, she manages to make an epic mess out of all of her stuff and she doesn't know how to clean it up on her own. We agreed that we would take some time this weekend and put aside some of her old toys "for the poor kids". At first, her main concern was that I not give away any of her "Hanni Tanni" stuff. But yesterday, while we were cleaning, I asked her if we could place the toy I was holding into the poor kid pile, and she said

"Mommy, why do you keep calling them the poor kids? You should call them the happy kids! They're getting all these new toys!"

And the way she said it was so aww-worthy, that I had to post it. My kid has such a good little heart.

fine quality thumb tacks

thievery

You might not be able to tell just by looking at them, but these thumb tacks are good quality tacks. Very fine, indeed.

I spotted them one morning, coming off the elevator. Someone used them to hang up a notice about swine flu. I knew then and there that I had to have them.

Thus started the week long reconnaissance mission. I scouted the surrounding area daily, trying to pinpoint what the ideal hour of the day would be to nab them and replace them with a lower quality substitute.
Finally, I could wait no longer...
I grabbed them on 6/3/09 at approximately 1:15 pm. They are now in my possession and I've contemplated physical violence should anybody try & rat me out.

Victory is mine!

"kristen, who the HECK are you?!"

Its not often that I break the monotony of my life, so I figure I should probably take all the opportunities I'm given to blog about not-so-everyday things.

This past Tuesday, I called a radio morning show, did my best Woody Wood Pecker impersination and won a prize pack. The end. Well, I mean, I'm sure I could get a little more discriptive, but I think I'm going to hold off on that until after I get my prize pack from XM 20 on 20.
This most recent experience ALMOST compares with my Canadian radio experience, actually - though I'm not sure anything will ever trump that. When I used to work at the law firm, before the days of my ipod, I would listen to a Canadian radio station called "The Peak". It would stream live on the internet and oh how I adored it. After months of listening, I finally decided to e-mail my favorite DJ & let him know that the Peak had a fan in Florida. Ten seconds after hitting the send button, the guy sends me a shout out on the air! Something like: "I'd like to send a shout out to Kristen listening from Florida! Thanks for tuning in, we'd love to have you in Canada some time!" I was absolutely tickled! I wanted to move to Canada right then and there. I'm pretty sure I called all of my family that afternoon and told them I was Canadian celebrity, or something equally ridiculous.
Not long after that experience, one afternoon, I went to tune in to The Peak and I came to find that they had reformatted the station without warning. I was crushed and, til this day, I'm still upset about it. But long live the memories of The Peak! Like Camp Anawanna, I'll hold them in my heart.