How Not To Over-Eat On Thanksgiving Day.

Eat in front of a mirror!






Hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving tomorrow!

Funny

Hope you chuckle at these too!












I love the internet!!

Reflections

Look at some of these prints from Tom Hussey's mirror series.  I saw this in the Huffington Post.  And I literally cried when I looked at them.  He took people now in scenes and looking into mirrors where there is a reflection of themselves from when they were younger.









For all of the pictures go here.  I think I would love something like this when I am 80 to hang on the wall.  A good reminder of myself that even if I look old, there is still someone young inside.

Things That Confuse Me

It's kind of been a long week.  Last night was the worst because Chris feels that Zeke's cage is too small (it isn't) and that it's a miserable place for him to be at night and that he is old enough to be out at night.  So I laid awake a lot thinking that my 100 lb., 6 month old Great Dane was probably wandering the house and peeing because he couldn't hold it over night.

He didn't pee, so all is good except the fact that I am uber tired.

This morning I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep so started flipping through an Elle Decor magazine.  It's kind of an odd magazine and not my favorite, and the one I accidentally renewed through 2016.  Oops.  Anyway, it led me to this post, for lack of anything better, about some recent things that I just don't understand.

1.  Jeff Koons



I don't get it.  People spend loads of money on this.  Giant balloon art has never appealed to me.

2.  Damien Hirst



Okay, to be fair, he has done some interesting things like putting sharks in glass boxes and some taxidermy stuff which I do find interesting, but a wall full of dots does not an art exhibit make.

3.  Any "art" that looks like my kids made, but my kids didn't

   

I don't understand this.  It's not something that makes me pause and wonder at the beauty of it, or the deeper hidden meaning.  I look at this and think it's ridiculous that someone would spend oodles of money on primary colored squares.

4.  Animal leg tables



In theory, you'd think I'd really like these since I do like taxidermy and animal stuff, but something about the stools or chairs where you just have legs gives me the creeps.  No thank you.

5.  Having your main "library" be on you kindle



Guys, I am really struggling with this whole kindle books thing.  On one hand I love that you can bring everything with you.  I really do.  On the other, I am such a tactical person that it drives me crazy to read books by flicking my finger and holding a piece of plastic.  I love, love the experience of books, turning the pages, tossing it on a table, the fact that I don't need to charge a book for fear that I can't access what's there.  And I have this bizarre fear that what if something happened to Amazon's cloud storage and I lost it all?  Then I would have paid all this money for books that literally disappeared in the great wide web.  I know, it is so irrational, but still.  Although, it is getting harder and harder to purchase a bound book when I can get it cheaper on kindle.  Although the flip side of that argument is why are kindle books still so expensive when all I am getting is words and not something tactically tangible?

Gotta go, Ava's alarm just went off, the day begins.

You Will Not Believe This!

Check out this commercial.  I have seen it burning up the blogs this past week.  At first it doesn't look like anything amazing, but they did it in ONE take!  Un-freakin' believable!

I cannot even imagine the trust he must have had with those two truck drivers.  Hey dad, do you think you could do that!!  (The driving the truck backwards part, not the split part)

I Pee On You

Seriously.  I have decided that this is quite charming, and perfect for the space above the toilet in my bathroom that I saved for artwork.  Kind of fitting for that spot, wouldn't you say?

You can by the original here for $16, or you can go the route that I will and DIY.

As soon as I do this painting my bathroom will be finished and then I will post some pictures!

A Little More Congo Adoption Information

Just wanted to give a heads up for anyone who may still be interested in Congo adoptions and somehow found this blog.  Even though now, two years after our kiddos are home it really is just a blog for Jess' brain dumps.

Anyway, in October and November, we had a friend spend almost a month in Congo to try and bring her legally adopted little girl home, and the DGM is still refusing to give exit letters.  She is with one of the more reputable adoption agencies, and so this, of course, is alarming.

I continue with my advice to not start a Congo adoption until the issue with exit letters has been resolved.  And again, if you are with an agency who is saying that this isn't a big deal, or that they will be fast tracked through this problem, please reconsider the ethics of your agency, and ultimately, your adoption.