1. Elle Macpherson strikes me as odd. Probably very nice, but odd. I don’t think I could hang out with her.

2. I paid $6.00 for my beach bag. On clearance. In July, when it was still hot and I still needed a beach bag. Why does all the seasonal stuff go on clearance in the MIDDLE of the season?

3. My favorite pedicure color is red, although currently my toenails are pink, to go with my sandals du jour, which are fuschia.

4. The Wild Oats store in Albuquerque sells Crocs shoes. I want orange Crocs. We do not have Wild Oats in OKC. And yet I continue to live here.

5. I went to Catholic school through eighth grade. I spent all of sixth grade praying that God would call me to be a nun. Fortunately, that didn’t work out.

6. Bluefly is addictive.

7. Impetigo in your EYE? Yikes.

8. Are all the Anonymouses the SAME Anonymous? Or are there several of you? Come on, fess up.

9. Adria, are you still out there?

10. I think I need to swear more. Or less, I’m not sure which. Suggestions?

11. I said it before and I’ll say it again: a nanny AND a night nurse AND a babysitter? The Virgin Mary didn’t have THAT kind of help and she was raising Jesus (who I’m sure was a handful, don’t you think?).

12. I didn’t poison anyone with the baked ziti (but I will not be sharing the recipie).

13. I must be the only one in the world who didn’t go camping as a child–my dad believed in exploring the Great Indoors; he used to joke that a Howard Johnson’s with only one tv was as much ‘camping’ as he was willing to do.

14. I started to read ‘Slacker Mom’ and, quite frankly, was disappointed. I was good with the concept (LOVED the concept, actually) but the writing was . . . eh.

15. What, no one is dying to hear my theories about the Rise of the English Novel? Oh, I’ll be writing about that, don’t you worry . . .