Random thoughts of Uselessness

Following is a lot of random information:
*I love days like this- lots of blustery snow falling while I get to sit in my warm house sipping Postum, just watching it all happen. No place to go. It's days like this that I LOVE being a stay-at-home mom! I apologize to everyone who has to haul themselves out and commit themselves to the shackles of the work-a-day world today!
Okay, I just went it to check on Bella and her bum was all wet. Finding it hard to believe that she was wet, I did a little investigating and found that she had pulled out at least half of the wipes in the package. I didn't know she even knew how to open it! There was a heap of wipes at least 6 inches tall, and I was going to take a picture, but guess what? That's right, my camera doesn't work. How can an aspiring Hall of Famer not have a working camera?)
*Which leads me to say that today is the day. The day that I will not hear from Creating Keepsakes. Today is the day that the rules state that the winners will be notified by phone. I really have no expectations. I wish like anything that I could win- that would be my dream come true, but I really don't feel like I will, and that's okay. Even if I did win, I couldn't tell you because they make you sign a confidentiality agreement until they release the names to the 'press'.
*Today is also book club day, at my house. I am making Lemon Chicken with rice and broccoli with Blue Cheese sauce. (Not Weight Watchers friendly... I'm struggling and wish I had a live-in diet 'pogner' like my mom.) We are reading White Oleander which I couldn't even bring myself to read (sorry BC- we'll discuss tonight!)It'll be fun to hang out with the girls :)
*Have you heard about the side effects they've discovered to the sleep drug Ambien? So weird! First was the 'sleep driving' where people wouldn't even remember getting int he car and would arrive at a destination and wake up. Now- 'sleep eating'! They news said that it aroused a 'caveman-like' instinct to binge eat, consuming thousands of calories without ever waking up. Ew. Caveman eating!
* I just went in to check on Bella again, and I couldn't find her! (It's a small room, and she's gated in, so there weren't a whole lot of possibilities short of child-abduction.) She had climbed under the gate and climbed all the way to the top of the stairs, and was looking down at me, beaming. (I have to keep the gate raised off the ground so my cats can get under.)She loves to climb stairs, and is really fast. I guess I'll have to lower the gate a bit...
*Have you seen the weirdest, creepiest, dumbest, and just plain freaky Skittles commercial? The guy is sitting in a job interview and has like 3-foot long beard that is also a hand and is feeding him Skittles, then he also feeds the interviewer woman a Skittle with his hairy beard hand? It's gross, creepy, and makes absolutely no sense. Anyone? ('Bueller, Bueller?')
*Have you heard about this autistic boy, "J-Mac"? He's a high school kid, and apparently has worked as a manager of his HS basketball team, sitting on the bench for a couple of years. Recently at a game, his coach put him in for the first time and in just a few minutes he scored like 20 points, tying the HS record!!! It's making national news, he met the president, all kids of good stuff. It warmed my heart :)
* Those are my various tidbits of random information this morning. Oh, and for a birthday update, visit Shell's site for a picture of her presents!!
(I really need to get a camera. And soon.)