When I was in elementary school we made maracas out of dried gourds. This little eggplant one looked so much like and egg. At this size the name eggplant makes sense. I somehow held onto it all these years. Its weird what survives a lifetime.

We stopped at Office Depot today looking for a gift for my mother's birthday and I noticed this artwork on the wall in the furniture section. It really dates the place but I kind of love it in a retro way. I wonder if they would sell it.

It was really difficult to decide between firm and smoosh. I went with firm because I figured we could always add smoosh to the top but you can't add smoosh.

We ended up having an impromptu party last night. A bunch of people came back from comedy night with (e:heidi) and then (e:terry) came back with robert, john and (e:yesthatscacey). We tried out the rock-it 3.0 on a the styrofoam frim the chocolate fountain packaging and it was amazing. styrofoam is definately the way to go.

I finally broke out the colored pencils that (e:hodown) and I had bought back on our thanksgiving trip.

I also realized I like making paper dolls. Now I just need better scissors. Robert had on the cutest lilac cowboy shirt. I was jealous. I wish I got a picture. As you can see in the picture.

I got distracted and forgot to turn off the steaming brocoli. It became mushy. This whole meal lacks presentation despite the good ingredients. I feel like I let the grass fed organic steak down.