WOO!
yes, it’s blurry, but top model is on and some things just take precedence.

-hoist with one’s own petard
-hornswoggled
-in cahoots
-hoi polloi

Try using them and report back, kthx

(p.s. i am reading vonnegut for the first time…i want to marry him despite his current living status! so it goes)

I babysit two girls on Tuesday afternoons. Yesterday, I was dragging all afternoon and the girls’ mom called me to say that I’d need to pick 10-Year-Old up at school because her bus was late from a class trip, 8-Year-Old was at a friend’s house and I needed to pick her up, fixings for dinner were in the fridge and I needed to pick up the co-op vegetables from the doorman downstairs.

I decided it would be a good idea to get coffee beforehand and thought a red eye would be the best preventative solution.

The barista wasn’t paying attention when he made the shot and made two instead of one.

“Do you just want both of them?” he asked. “I made too many and I’ll just throw it out if you don’t want it.” I am not one to waste espresso.

So I drank my two shots of espresso and my tall coffee in about ten minutes and this was the result:

Who wants dinner? Let’s get in the cab. I have to get the turnips. Did you do your homework yet? Can you practice violin? Do you know how to play Hey Ya on the guitar? Do you want me to teach you? etc. etc. etc.

(8-Year-Old: “What’s wrong with you? Have you been drinking?”)

Shockingly enough, I am the only Xanga Teamer who has already bought her High School Musical 3 tickets for next Friday.

(p.s. look at those ticket prices – $12.50 to see Zac Efron? Hmph.)

Apparently nobody on the entire site is going to see this movie. Don’t even worry; I will represent all of you with dignity, class and moxie.

clear out space for a stage and begin my first tour as natalia: karaoke mall star extraordinare!

/popstar envy

I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!

I was looking at some Datingish stats and saw that someone found the site by typing in “how to get over a cheat”.

Just jump over it! Or step over it, even. What’s the problem? I mean, they’re not very big.

Consumer Reports came out with findings on cereal earlier this week and parents are panicking. Wait, you mean to tell me that kids’ cereals have a little bit of three metric tons of sugar per bowl? Say it ain’t so.

(I used to put sugar on top of Frosted Flakes. This explains my 84 visits to the dentist and my insatiable need for more.sugar.all.the.time.kthxbai)

That being said, though, a Today Show contributor suggested mixing “bad” cereals with “good” ones and demonstrated how to make a healthier bowl of Fruit Loops by mixing Cheerios in with a bowl of Toucan Sam’s fruity delights. I DON’T THINK SO.

It may have been my lack of coffee or the fact that I have a very close relationship with cereal, but I actually said, “STOP STOP STOP” while he was pouring the two together.

Do not mess with sugary cereal.

Is there any cereal mixage you can tolerate? What is it?