In My Bag

Last summer I saw the Munchkin Tub Toy Organizer, and couldn’t get over its cuteness. We had a lot of bath toys between our two toddlers (then two and a half and one year), so I was able to easily justify the purchase of the turtle toy organizer!

Unfortunately, the tub toy organizer didn’t work out as intended. The problem? It wouldn’t stay up! We tried on all three walls of our tub, with the suction cups wet, with the suction cups dry, and after cleaning the surface the suction cups were being applied to. Nothing worked. Within an hour of being applied, at least two of the suction cups would give way, and eventually the whole thing would fall into a heap in the bathtub.

What finally made us toss the turtle in the trash was when we realized that some of the little pockets weren’t resisting water nor drying out entirely, and were beginning to take on a mildew-y smell. Ew! What a sad ending for an adorable turtle that definitely had potential!

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I have been reading a lot of books lately. Some of my favorites include:

The Other Boleyn Girl
Good in Bed
Escape

And the one I am reading right now, Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly“.

What’s on your reading list?

There’s a lot of talk on a message board I frequent about the effectiveness of hoodia weight loss pills. In my opinion, diet pills can help with weight loss, but I think you should make your decision to use them very carefully. And without controlling what you eat, how much you eat, and how active you are, those weight loss pills will be useless.

Sometimes it pays to lose weight the “old fashioned” way: calorie counting, portion control and daily activity!

This morning I went to a Panera Bread to get a bunch of work done, and I enjoyed using the free WiFi while I was there. While I was there, a window washing guy kept flirting with me. Finally he spotted my wedding ring, and remembered the car seats in the back of my car (I first encountered him in the parking lot), so he backed off.
It got me thinking about how the sight of womens wedding bands and mens wedding bands can make us so quickly back off of the opposite sex (or same, depending on how we roll ) when flirting and such.

I’m thinking about buying a more lavish wedding band for Dan for our ten year wedding anniversary. It’s still a ways away — another six years — but in a way that’s a good thing, since it gives me more time to save up money!

It’s spring time! That means it’s time to do spring cleaning, home organization, and then head outdoors and start working on gardening and landscaping. If you are into plant growing, then you might need to stock up and get set up with grow lights. Grow lights can assist with providing the light that plants need to grow and flourish. In addition, grow lights can often be used for various reptiles and aquariums.
For a great list of grow lights and other types of lighting, check out accountsdicounts.us.

When I was pregnant with my son, my favorite part of shopping for baby gear was picking out baby bedding. I settled on Classic Pooh pretty quickly, but I was in love with many other choices. And I still am, actually! babybox.com has a lot of adorable baby bedding sets for boys and girls, and to fit all sorts of preferences, tastes, likes, dislikes, and of course, budgets.