Today

I was watching some kids when I was at Lydia Place and we were coloring together. One of them asked me to draw a picture of her and her brother. In all of my artistic glory I proceeded to draw two stick figures with what I thought were pretty nicely drawn faces. Upon seeing the picutre she burst into tears saying that it was ugly and didn't really look like her and that I gave her ugly boy hair (despite the clearly drawn bangs and shouldler length hair). A couple mintues later I got up to get her brother who had left the table and when I came back she had crumpled up the paper and thrown it under the table so "no one could reach it".

I know I'm not the world's best artist, but I'm really hoping this was more of a "5-year-old-tantrum" kind of a thing rather than an "I-traumatize-children-with-my-unartistic-abilities" thing.

The Ultimate Beauty Tool

Did you know that Q-tips are (as they say) the "ultimate beauty tool"? Well, neither did I until Brian bought 1,000 of them at Costco last week and I happened to be reading the package sitting on our counter while getting ready this morning.

How are they the ultimate beauty tool you may ask? Unfortunately I cannot enlighten you as none of the listed "variety of uses" are related to beauty, and I for one, have never used a Q-tip as such for myself.

The variety of uses are oddly notable however, so therefore I will note them.

Use 1: FIRST AID - you can use Q-tips to gently apply ointments and creams.
***Screw using your God-given fingers...Q-tips will not only apply the ointment but leave you feeling warm and fuzzy by catching strands of cotton in your open wound.

Use 2: ELECTRONICS - Clean and dust hard to reach spaces (the picture is of someone dusting their keyboard with a Q-tip).
***First, that's simply rediculous. Second, I feel as though for almost any other electronic, a Q-tip would still be too big and too silly to clean in any hard to reach place.

Use 3: BABY CARE - Delicately care for sensitive areas (the picture is of a Q-tip on a baby's cheek).
***Ok, so maybe this one could be sell-able. But I do want to know what they are rubbing for fun on the baby's cheek.

Use 4: HOUSEHOLD USE: For all household cleaning.
***I would like to let you know that the picture for this one is someone holding a Q-tip in a bathroom shower against the tile as if they were to clean. I pray for the poor soul who has to clean their tile shower with a Q-tip. If I were to try and use a Q-tip to try and clean my the shower in my old college house, it would probably disintegrate and maybe even burn away at the Q-tip.

Thank you Q-tips for trying to convince us your product is worth more than it really is. It was valliant effort and you almost had me fooled.

For now however, I will continue to remain using Q-tips for the one and only purpose that I have ever found them to be good for...to clean my ears. Although this kid found some other good uses for them...

WHY I LOVE DANCE FOREVER

and

Tour de......Whatcom?

The Tour de Whatcom is a real thing. It happens August 1st. It is also a real thing that Brian will be participating in. He will be doing the 50 mile leg. He bought a bike last week and already did 30 miles the other day. Pretty impressive actually! The thing he is most excited for about the race? The jersey. Also, he was the cutest and probably the most excited about this than anything ever! Who wants to come watch with me??????

Why?

As I previously mentioned, Brian is the most obsessed with le Tour de France (a 20 day long journey all across France as we learned). To him and everyone else, I would like to ask this question: Why? Why in the world is this so cool? WHY?

I have been watching now for half an hour and do you want to know what's happened? Nothing. A million guys on a million bikes have biked. In one large clump. That's it. That is the only thing that has happened. Yes, they have gone through some curves and yes, a few people have changed their position, but that is actually it.

And this happens for 4-6 hours a day. And all of it is broadcast. FOR 20 DAYS!!!!!!!!!! How can so many people watch a large group of people do nothing exciting but ride their bikes for that long for that many days!?!?!?!?

I don't get it....

Something else I found out was that they ride in teams. Even though one person still wins, they are on a "team". I don't get that either.

I'm going to rename le Tour de France. It's new name is le Tour de Dumb.

Fact or Fiction?

I just saw a client of mine on a commercial for Whatcom Credit because they helped her reasonably buy a new car.

FACT.

Seriously?

And whoever has heard of "Whatcom Credit"?

Hmmmmmm...

Brian has been the most obsessed with the Tour de France. I don't know why...maybe cause he wants to buy a roadbike, but he's pretty much been watching it 24/7.

Today, I found out that the race is 20 days long. I asked him: "Why is it 20 days long? Why is it not like a normal race?".

To this, my husband replied: "Well, it is a tour of France."

It was at this moment that I realized for the very first time it was named the Tour de France because it was a Tour of France. A race all over the county of France. Not just a race in France.

Good thing they still let me have a college degree.

Suckers.