Kitty Deschanel

I recently received a Dragonsaurous Child Costume to review from Wholesale Halloween Costumes . Out of all the costumes I have written about for this company ( Baby Skunk , Blonde Wig , and Little Lion ), this one is my favorite by far! If you're looking for a costume for your baby or toddler for Halloween this year , this one is it. Out of the package, the Dragonsaurous costume looks exactly as high quality as it does online. There is no need to iron it. The scales going down the tail and the teeth are a thick enough felt that they don't simply fall over like in lower quality costumes. The zipper works flawlessly. Everything is connected so you're not going to be searching the house frantically trying to find a part of the costume before trick-or-treating. I also love that this is a unisex costume. Boys and girls would both have fun roaring and stomping around is this costume, whether on Halloween or simply for playing dress-up. Plus, it's super-cute!

...otherwise known as the Not "Baaad" Sundays blog hop! You just know you want to post this adorable button on your site. It also looks quite cute on Pinterest and Facebook! We'll be spending the weekend getting lots of steps on our insurance-sponsored pedometers. Brilliant me wore mine everywhere for the past 2 weeks without realizing it wasn't working! I'm very behind on my steps. Have a fun weekend, bloggy friends!

Because some days, random is the best you can hope for. Sexy Nerd is watching Swamp Loggers. Half the words are bleeped out and you can't understand the other half. At least Shelby's dog, Willy, is pretty cute. Part of my job involves answering the phone for a law firm. I could not get a caller off the phone yesterday. I kept telling him that I just answer the phone and am not even in the same office as the law firm - strictly an answering service with no legal experience whatsoever - but he kept insisting that I give him legal advice! Want my advice? Leave your number and wait to get legal conseling from an actual lawyer! Our Memorial Day trip has come and gone. Next up? Australia! I'm researching airfare in between posting this weekend's linky party. The prices....OUCH! I'm awfully tempted to scrap the whole Australia thing and just take another fun road trip instead. For the price of this vacation, we could even upgrade to a nicer road trip ca

Howdy, friends. After sharing your favorite links, be sure to enter my Krill Oil giveaway - there are only 12 entries so far! With 2 prizes to award, your odds of winning couldn't get much better. I hope you're having a fantastic weekend!

Working in a children’s dental office, I’m often forced into an uncomfortable front-row seat for spouse bashing. The other day, a mom and dad were trying to schedule a filling for their 2 year old. I suggested a possible appointment time. Dad mentioned to mom that he thought she had something else scheduled already. So what did she reply to him with, exactly? Mom: Let’s look in my planner so we can remind your TINY, EMPTY BRAIN what’s going on. I so did not want to suggest any more appointment times to these people. And, of course, their 2 year old was standing right there!  You just go right ahead and keep arguing in front of me. You're blogging gold, my friends. Later, both parents jokingly asked if they could just leave their child at the office and pick her up at her next 6 month check up. I was awfully temped to say yes!

*Update* This giveaway has ended. Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter! This week's blog hop is sponsored by Everest Nutrition Krill Oil . You know you should be taking a daily fish oil supplement (come on, now. You know it's true!) Unsure about which one to buy? Sexy Nerd and I have tried many different brands over the years. We really like Everest Nutrition Krill Oil because it comes from tiny crustaceans living in Antarctica, meaning they are more pure (less BPA - super important for a gal like me who has ' baby madness '!) than competing brands. Bonus? No yucky fish burps! I have been taking an Everest Nutrition Krill Oil pill daily for the past 2 months and can give them a glowing review. Although it isn't one of the benefits Krill Oil focuses on, I think these pills have improved my hair, skin, and nails. I plan to continue purchasing this brand in the future. You can read about lots of other health benefits on their site, KrillOil.com .

Sexy Nerd, frustrated by the many smoke detector false alarms in our home, has been suggesting I buy a deep fryer. I was reading reviews on Amazon to find just the right one, when I came across the Presto 06006 Kitchen Kettle Electric Multi-Cooker and Fryer . It can be used as a fryer and a steamer, in a sort of dietary yin yang. Score! As a surprise bonus, someone had written the following...err...helpful review: "Very handy as it does a lot of different things well and doesn't take lots of precious kitchen space, not like republicans in washington." WHAT?! I was on the fence before, but now they're hogging all the space in my kitchen? Geez.

Happy weekend, everyone!

I hate shoes. There, I said it. To all you strappy sandal gals and stiletto doo-dad fans, I just don't get the shoe obsession. Sure, there are some cute pairs out there, but really, what's better than the comfort of simply going barefoot? Nothing. Right now, while you're reading this, stretch out and wiggle your toes. Aaaaah. I work at a dental office and the first thing I do when the last patient leaves is kick off my heels. Of course, there is a downside to all this gallivanting around with naked feet. You know, apart from the occasional stray piece of used dental floss that makes its way between your bare toes. KIDDING! We're a sparkly clean pediatric dental office. Really. Nothing like a little black carpet to make pasty legs seem even whiter. Look away, everyone, before you're blinded!  And, please, do ignore all those bits and specks you see all over the carpet. I really was kidding about the dental floss. I promise. Galavanting around

Let's begin this week with a quick, embarrassing story. Sexy Nerd and I went bowling the other day and decided to partake in the alley's happy hour special. We went to the bar and I ordered us two bottles of beer. It's not something I do often (okay, the last time may have been in Las Vegas, however many years we were last there) but ordering beer is simple enough, right? Bartender: You want to leave it open? Me: Sure! Sexy Nerd: No! Me: But I want to drink it now. That's it. From now on, I'm sticking with my Michelob ULTRA Light Cider , straight from the fridge. (For all my fellow non-orderers of beer, the bartender meant the bill . Oh!)

My super-cute button. You know you want to post it/pin it/share it/love it: "Baaaaa" the little lamb says cutely, hindering any attempt you make at resisting. Yes, I have had a lot (lot. lot.) of sugar and caffeine this evening. Why do you ask?

...otherwise known as the Not "Baaad" Sundays blog hop! After linking up, I'd love to know: Are you going away for 4th of July this weekend, next weekend, or not at all? It's tricky to get away from work with the holiday being right in the middle of the week. Now, let's see all the nifty awesomeness everyone has been posting! I'm posting this a little early. It will be interesting to see if we get more links.

Sexy Nerd is IMPOSSIBLE to plan a vacation with! He's the kind of person who says things like "Why are you stressing out about this? Just book something." and then complains about everything you consider booking. I really wanted to include a stopover in Honolulu. It would break up the long flight from LAX to Sydney and only cost a little more than flying directly. With our 5 year wedding anniversary approaching, we had been hoping to revisit our ceremony location and eat our wedding cake (one of the benefits of using a cake that the bakery has in stock every day). Unfortunately, no matter how hard I planned, I just couldn't seem to create an itinerary that included Hawaii. Sexy Nerd kept saying to skip it. He said that a trip to Australia should focus 100% on Australia and that he didn't care about stopping in Honolulu. So, I showed him an idea for an itinerary. "But I thought we were going to stop in Hawaii," he said, completely crushed. &qu

I would like to tell you something I learned at the Albuquerque Lucky Paws animal shelter yesterday. Did you know that, nationwide, black cats are the least likely to be adopted? If you are a black cat, you are more likely to be put to sleep than any other cat in the shelter. Now, I don't know about you, but I have known some remarkably lovable black cats. And they're CUTE! What is with the black kitty aversion? Society doesn't still think they're bad luck, right? Right? Luna from Sailor Moon would tell you that's preposterous!

The folks at BlogHer want to know: What are your favorite resources (Products, Apps, Books, Websites, etc.) to help you get organized? Hmmm... My best tip for getting organized is one that I stole from work. Get yourself a box, like the ones paper comes in, and an assortment of folders to stand inside the box. I use this idea for e verything , from keeping track of different bank accounts and credit cards to magazine subscriptions. Some Fun Folder Ideas Decorating Inspiration Party Plans Future Travel Itineraries Books I Want to Read (whenever I finally have time) Websites to Visit (same problem as before!) I also created a Vitamins/Supplements folder, which is great because I can rip out an article on something I'd like to research further and possibly try, then take care of everything in one order the next time I'm ready to make a purchase from Drugstore.com (translation = easier to hit the minimum purchase required for free shipping!) And

Happy Father's Day weekend, everyone! I'm looking forward to visiting each of the sites linked below. I'll let you know if your post makes it onto the LambAround Pinterest board!

It's after 1am and I'm scheduling this post for tomorrow (today). Aaargh! I am not feeling remotely close to being able to fall asleep. It may have been the green tea I drank too close to bedtime. Or it might have been that bag of M&Ms I polished off. Also, for the past several days, I've been unable to get this song out of my head: Love him or hate him, Obama's version of Call Me, Maybe is better than the original. Thank you for taking the time to blog hop with me. I visit every link and my favorites are shared on the LambAround Pinterest board . Have a great, sleep-filled weekend, bloggy friends!

You've probably noticed some changes to my blog lately. There's a new header almost weekly (I really like my new one and think it's here to stay...though I said the exact same thing about the last one, which is dead to me now), I'm posting more frequently, and I've been cleaning up some of the nonsense in old posts. Wow, there's so much nonsense!  Plus, I've completely done away with anything lamb-related from the good ol' LambAround days, so if you're a new reader to this blog, you're going to be confused if you look very far into the post archives, which is lamb everything . I'm working on it! I see all these other blogs succeeding and think Hey, I can do that . Call it a side effect of my latest crazy brain meltdown . Today, I'm looking through drafts that were never posted. Here's a gem from 2011, where I took a million photos to teach you how to make kale chips. The photos are from 2011 and the text is from today because

Sexy Nerd and I recently completed a road trip from Albuquerque, NM to Phoenix and Tucson. As you may remember, a certain someone hates staycations , so we had to get out of our own state. We loaded up the trusty Alero and hit the road. Our first stop was Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Pretty, but not pretty enough to pull over? Bam! Chilling in the shade of the Crazy Old Man hat. Petrified Forest petroglyphs. Our theory is that ancient teenagers were bored (wouldn't you be??) and vandalized these rocks. The park service and scientists everywhere have a different theory. Our next road trip destination... (duh nuh na nuh) The Grand Canyon Sexy Nerd is a bit of a worrywart and he refused to venture anywhere near the edge. Like, anywhere remotely close to it. This photo was taken with the lens zoomed waaay in and has been cropped so that I'm not off in the distance. I was being cautious. See me using that tree f