Allyson's Dropped Stitches

Dude....Suhweet!!!!

Allyeggpop — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:30:04 -0400

Stash that is. Amanda and I had an awesome time at the Stitch n' Pitch in T.O last week. We swapped and gawked more than we knit, oh, and we did catch some of the game to. I've uploaded some pics to Flickr so you'll have to check them out. Special cheers to Haley from Knitomatic who has potentially upgraded my future scarf to a small sweater, ok maybe a shrug or poncho. But still gratefully received!!! And while we are on the subject of Haley...check out her Wychwood Beautifucation Project. I have got to find some ugly poles!!!!

Take me out to the ball game.....

Allyeggpop — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:38:26 -0400

I'm so excited! I'm meeting Amanda today to go to the Stitch N' Pitch in Toronto. Its going to be so much fun! I'm picking her up right after work and we are going straight there. When I spoke to her yesterday we were not sure what projects we were bringing. Amanda told me that what she wanted to bring only needed a tonne of ends woven in...then she realized what she was saying! Eureuka! Now she wants to pass the project up and down the rows and have everyone weave in an end or two until done. She may be onto something!!!

I'll post pics to flickr!

I'm Back!

Allyeggpop — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:41:14 -0400

Holy Smokes has it been so long since I last posted. Last time I posted I was suffering ridiculous pregnancy insomnia, the time posted was 4:49 am! ACK!

Happily since that time, our beautiful baby boy, Greyden Kenneth Jack was born on Valentine's Day. Labour was very quick. At 3:30 pm I was knitting in a rocking chair, and Greyden was born at 4:30 pm. My doctor barely had time for the nurse to throw a stool under her to sit on. Len was absolutely amazing, knowing exactly how to make me feel better and when. My mom attended again, as she did with Caleb. We ended up a few extra days in the hospital, as Greyden became jaundiced really quickly and had a stubborn fever, so they shipped him to the special care nursery. But in keeping with the holiday theme, we came home on the new provincial holiday, Family Day.

Caleb loves being a big brother, as a matter of fact when he came into the birthing room afterwards he asked, "Am I a big brother now?" He absolutely adores Greyden. He hugs and kisses him all the time, he's very gentle too. His big brother job is to sing to Greyden when he cries, and rock his cradle or chair.

Check out my Flickr pics for pics of the boys.

Itchy feet...

Allyeggpop — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:49:59 -0500

I've got itchy feet...well I think I've had them for some time, but I think I've finally resigned myself to a cold hard fact. I think its time to break up with my blog, I've been thinking about it for a while now. Sorry, its you not me.

I keep visiting all these other blogs and they are so pretty, and they have pictures, a beautiful colours and mine's just blah. I believe the turning point was converting to mac. Now that I have a mac, I have to do all of my blogging using html for everything, including photos. On my mac I've fallen in love with dragging everything. The html is so tedious that I don't blog photos any more, I don't even use bolds or italics. Over the past years I've told myself that when I'm not working I'll "fix" my blog, strip it down, implement some coding etc. etc. but it's never gotten done. (darn family time!) So now I'm patiently waiting to migrate, maybe give wordpress or typepad a try...something pretty. I deserve something pretty don't I!

Makes you wonder.....

Allyeggpop — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:29:01 -0500

I was just wondering who the pregnant one is in the house!?

After dinner tonite, Caleb started asking for dessert. After telling him we didn't have any dessert, he cuddled up to me and asked for cake. I told him we had no cake. Then he asked for ice cream. I told him we had no ice cream.
Then he says, "I know!
Pickles! Can I have a pickle for dessert?" So of course, I let him.

Holy....

Allyeggpop — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:41:57 -0500

Pardon my french...but Holy crap! In case you missed it on Ravelry, they've posted the world's biggest yarn stash. I couldn't help but show it to Len, with the clarification that its NOT a yarn shop he was looking at but someone's basement. It's bigger than many yarn shops I've been in. But now Len is a little nervous, he wants to know if my yarn stash was going to get that big. Get me a house baby, and I'll see what I can do!

Ho Ho OH!!

Allyeggpop — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:07:09 -0500

We took Caleb to the Santa Claus parade tonite. Unfortunately, we were pretty mellow about getting there, so we just saw the tail end of the whole thing. Santa passed, and I enjoyed the amazing look on Caleb's face, as he watched his very first sight of Santa for the year. As Santa ho,ho'd away, and the parade ended, Caleb turned, put his little face into my jacket and began to cry. Feeling guilty that we had been late and had missed most of it, I put my arm around him and asked him what was wrong......

He looked up to my with his big teary eyes, "Santa didn't give me a present."

Its about time...

Allyeggpop — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:03:41 -0400

Yay, I'm part of the "cool" crowd...

"Hey there,

frecklegirl has invited you to Ravelry!
"Here you go! Thanks for your interest in our little site."

Now I just need time to actually really use the site. What I've peeked at so far looks pretty neat. However, I'm a little afraid to catalog my stash. As I've been pre-nesting, I've been finding hidden caches I'd totally forgotten about, and so far its not a pretty site! I love the idea of keeping track of my needles though. I had tried this a few years ago on paper, but I never have it with me/can't find it/forgot to add new ones. So we'll see if an electronic version serves me any better. But in the meantime, I'll roam around and check things out, and start using it bit by bit, project by project.

See you there!

New and Exciting News

Allyeggpop — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:20:16 -0400

Some of you already know this news but its time to tell the rest of the world...

We're having another baby!

We're pretty excited about this, personally I think I'm most excited because I'm not so sick any more. Somebody told me that this is because your body remembers being pregnant from before...well I wasn't this sick before...I think its payback! We'll see how the rest of the pregnancy goes, if that's true!!!

So for now I'm being lazy and I'm posting these tickers in my post but I'll move them into the side of my blog a bit later.

Baby

Caleb

Is 3 am a good time for anything?

Allyeggpop — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:24:39 -0400

So then is 3 am a good time to blog? I'm awake and vertical and (well duh!) at the mac. I awoke an hour ago to traverse the obstacle course of sleeping cats on the floor to go to the bathroom. Now I'm awake, because, after tucking myself back in I couldn't go back to sleep. I lay awake debating...read a book? knit? watch t.v? The first two would just interest me enough that I would be up to see those first orange streaks of dawn. TV?....its all infomercials and old movies...so here I sit. So far I've lurked around Facebook, tweaked my Flickr account a little....and now I blog. Unlike Jamie I have no wit or humour (or grammar) at 3 am!
All I can offer you are these:

Hanami Gorgeous!

Wicked Amanda knows how I found this one! I love it! Maybe, if I start it now I can wear it next year!

And while I'm on that theme....Fun!

Goodnight Gracie!

A holiday in pictures....mostly

Allyeggpop — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:59:09 -0400

Heading north to Pancake Bay Provincial Park 76 km's north of Sault Ste. Marie.

We got ambitious!

..but we did it in four hours, including stopping at the lookout, lunch at the waterfall and swimming!

Overlooking the final resting place of the Edmund Fitzgerald

I must have been to busy cooling off in the waterfall to actually take a pic of it...duh!

We went for a stretch up the beach a bit, to more rocky shores.

Caleb called this a dragon.

The Driftwood Dragon of Pancake Bay

Guwoulf......

Allyeggpop — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:02:18 -0400

...that was the gargantium sucking sound that engulfed my entire month of June. At work, I was on the planning committee for a big conference we hosted at Trent U, so that completely sucked up the entire beginning of the month, and the rest has been in recuperation. We did manage to escape to the cottage for Canada Day weekend, despite me being under the weather. It came down to laying on the couch at home or laying on the couch at the cottage...easy choice! The weather wasn't the warmest, but I'm sure if it had been to hot I would have complained. It also allowed me time to add to my sock, as Gramma Susko and Nana kept Caleb pretty entertained.

In other news, I am really happy to receive Joanne into the local knitting fold from the wool barren boonies of Timmins. This is the woman who made woobie. She's so sweet, I'd never even met her, but she knew her husband's old high school chum was expecting so she showed up with a cute little sweater and the greatest blanket friend a little boy could ever have. Oh, and she's a Romni virgin! What fun we'll have with her!!!

New Favourites....

Allyeggpop — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:48:18 -0400

I'm so excited, I've got a new website to post to my favorites.....www.ottermere.com. The funny thing about it, is growing up at Ottermere we had no hydro, no flush toilets only outhouses, and we had woodstoves to keep us warm in the winter. In the summer, we drove 2 hours in the car, packed all our gear into outboard boats, travelled another 45 minutes by boat, crossed the portage, and crossed over into Ottermere, docked and then hauled all our gear up to the appropriate camp. In the winter we did the same routine except by snowmobile, not boat. When Len and I lived in Thunder Bay we would go on the weekends, because it was only a 6 hour drive, compared to when we moved to southern Ontario which puts it at approximately 22 hour drive.
Its a pretty amazing place, I think you have to be from there to really truly get it. Its the kind of place that is a part of your blood.

Cold, Wet and Tired.....

Allyeggpop — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:59:28 -0400

But I've got new wool to keep me warm. So what did I do this weekend.....?

Spent the afternoon at Ikea, where I bought a beautiful red rug....bye bye Homemade rug
Stood in line to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee encourage knitters to resist and fight the stigma of CHOKE (Cultural Humiliation of Knitters Everywhere).. Her talk was so funny, I loved it that she was nervous, it made her very approachable. While we were waiting for the Yarn Harlot, you could hear the clicking of hundreds of knitting needles...really awesome. I won't rehash the evening, Martha does a fair job of it, as does Sherri. Jamie gives her run-away (well almost) mommy version here. And Amanda...we may get her to do socks yet, puts in her two cents! I took pics, but with Jamie's camera, somehow I ended up with dead batteries in mine...boo hoo. I'll post when Jamie sends them over. I couldn't resist taking pictures of Stephanie taking pictures of us!

As for the Yarn Crawl, we started bright and early at Naked Sheep, we almost got Choked but my darling brother altered his plans to get us there on time. Naked Sheep was kind enough to offer us some discounts, but I think I fell in love with something not on the list...of course! I found out that I get motion sick when attempting to knit on the TTC, so that pretty much sums up how much I accomplished on my first sock. I spent my time at Americo crapped out on the couch, (btw, I wasn't bored, I yawn when I get sick) I did manage to wobble a little bit around the store, just to take it all in. But I have decided to figure Americo into my meeting in Toronto on Friday. Two gravols and two gingerales had me mostly fixed for Romni Wool. We then set off for Lettuce Knit in Kensington market. I think the Big Fat Burrito I ate, fortified me to find something to go with my Naked Sheep find, and pick up a cute little $5 denim jacket. (Oh, did I mention it was freezing out and I had dressed for 30 degree sweltering heat!?) After the lunch break we headed out to fight Choke...curse you TTC, and figure out how many knitters can fit in a bus stop...stashes included of course, we weren't putting anything down! Our final destination was alterknit cafe . We proceeded to continue fondling and crooling until it was time to pack up, hit the TTC one last time and return to our families. What an awesome time.

Oh, and the wet part of the weekend? That was Sunday morning, we had our local chapter's Walk of Hope, as part of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario's walks.

And tired is ok, cuz last night I dreamt of self-striping sock wool all night long......

Death by DPN

Allyeggpop — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:00:23 -0400

There will be no shame, no horror, no throwing of dpn's....I finished the sweater I was crocheting for the Walk of Hope. I stayed up last night and put the edging on it, there was NO WAY I was going to be doing crochet amoung 200-300 knitters!!!

Its a pattern. I've done before, a real quick and easy one. The hardest part of the pattern is to simply crochet away and not get caught up in the strange way it works up. The edging is courtesy of Jess Hutch.

Toronto Bound!

Allyeggpop — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:15:20 -0400

Only knitters will get this one, but I'm going on a pilgrimage to worship at the altar of all things knitted. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is coming to Toronto for the launch and book signing of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting with the Yarn Harlot herself in attendance. So of course, Jamie and I are going on a road trip! I think Jamie's already figured out her outfit, the baby's outfit and probably what project she'll work on while there. I'm trying to calculate how early we'll have to get there to get in, of course, what project to work on while there, and what can I buy!! Oh, and is there a sushi place nearby!! Apparently, we're trying to out attend Colin and Justin the day before...no problem!! With Stephanie coming back to her home town, she sounds like she's hosting this at her house...Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. This afternoon we showed Little Miss Sunshine to the highschool students from our four county area, and tonite we are screening Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. It's been a couple of weeks since I've been home at night. Things have been really busy at work, with it being mental health week, our Walk of Hope May 27, and the Lynx Symposium in June. I've been joking that I'm counting the days to July, when we take the family vacation at Pancake Bay. Knitting is unknown, as is everything else. The only book I've been reading lately is for work...its a good one but still its work. I passed Wicked onto Colleen though and so far she's loving it. I'll have to get a good project going for July!

Why I hate bathing suits!

Allyeggpop — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:06:44 -0400

Jamie and I have made a pact to shop for bathings suits together this season....that is, assuming of course, we were not drunk at the time - to decide to wear bathing suits this year, or that we won't conveniently get lost on the way to the store and end up at the pub!

Out of curiousity, I checked out the Land's End website, I had heard they had a build your suit option. (too bad its not a build your body option!) They try to charm you by choosing different styles and colour options, it lulls you into that false sense of security that you haven't spent most of the winter, butt on couch, knitting in front of the t.v.
But then it hits you, in the descriptive text for the one you've chosen (worn of course by a slim model on a beach!) this bathingsuit isn't going to fix anything! Not when the text says stuff like, "styling flatters your shoulders" or "V-neck flatters your face" That's their code for, "Your screwed, its already the end of April, what were you thinking eating your kids entire chocolate rabbit!"

Maybe this late winter will buy me some time!

Tie one on

Allyeggpop — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:01:51 -0400

Here's

Found on Facebook....

Allyeggpop — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:27:28 -0400

You Know you knit too much when...

You show up at your favorite yarn shop's huge annual sale and before you can go in and shop with the other knitters, the owner takes you aside to remind you that she doesn't want a repeat of what happened last year.

You seek out forms of excercise that you can do while knitting, such as riding a stationary bike.

You hear about a breed of minature sheep that grow to be only 16 inches in height and weigh only 50 pounds and immediately start trying to figure out whether you can convince your spouse its a dog.

Before you buy anything such as a hammock or curtains you seriously wonder whether you could knit it. (See my future post on the baby gate made from Bernat cotton!)

Without your knitting, you feel lonely.

Mac Attack!

Allyeggpop — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:36:38 -0400

I'm a pc

and I'm a mac.

We're so excited, we've bought our first new computer in 10 years!
This means, we now have a computer that doesn't freeze up, and crash, our old pc couldn't handle anything newer than Windows 95. Also, it was so big we decided to move it to the basement a few years ago, and as family and friends can attest we slowly dropped out of cyberspace. It took forever to boot up, and the web and email was slow as heck. And as you can see, even I was shocked looking at the picture, our basement is pretty miserable! Its no wonder we never went down there! Dark, cold, huge spider webs and other creepy crawlers!
So we've upgraded, partially because we had to, but also to celebrate my hiring to permanent full-time status at work. The mac is awesome! And its so cool,just the monitor basically tucked into a corner of the livingroom. The screen is 24" of glorious high definition...perfect for movies. Set up was nothing, after bringing it home from the store we opened the box, plugged it in and started playing with it. You can do some pretty great stuff with photos, music, and video, which was the main reason behind the switch. (Other than the commercials that is!) It has a built in camera and microphone that you can use for chatting, photos or movies, I have to admit, I love the photo booth...I've already put some pics on my facebook.
So this is our big re-entry into cyberspace - email on a regular basis, an updated blog with pictures (even though I'm looking for a blogjet compatible with mac...feel free to drop me a comment if you know of one). I don't even dare think yet of the graphics capability I'll have at my fingertips...drool..drool.....

Allyeggpop — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:14:22 -0500

Just a quick hello to let everyone know I'm still here! January has been stupidly busy for some reason! Alot of my time I've been watching movies for work. We are trying to find a good mental health film to show to the high school kids this year. In between we squeezed in March of the Penguins for Caleb. Another obsession of his, he calls them padme, well at least we know what he's talking about!! Its an amazing movie, if you haven't seen it, its a must rent! Len and I were blown away. Its one of those it could always be worse things. Our apartment has been a little cool....penguins lay eggs and hatch them in -50 weather! I have to wait a bit for dinner...male penguins don't eat for 4 months while watching and incubating the egg! You gotta give alot of respect to penguins!!

Our USB port for the computer is broken, so I haven't been able to post any pics for a few months, but I wanted to show off the t-shirt I made for Amanda. We saw Wicked last November, and have been spreading the gospel of the book for a couple of years now. So here's her flickr pic.

So thats about it. Our local chapter of the Schizophrenia Society went 5 pin bowling on Sunday. We had lots of fun! Did you know 5 pin bowling is a Canadian invention?
This weekend I'm in Toronto for meetings and training, so I'm sure I'll have another gap in my blog. I keep telling myself that when we get a new computer, and can have it upstairs you'll hear more! We'll see!!

Hooray....

Allyeggpop — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:55:57 -0500

He's coming! He's coming! I'm so excited I can hardly wait...oh, and Caleb too. We're so excited the big guy is going to be here soon!

Not Santa, silly......Shrek!

Hooray!

Knitters are smart!

Allyeggpop — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:29:58 -0500

Ok, here's the super duperest tip of the holiday season. Or at least to keep in mind for next year. Last year when I took the lights off the Christmas tree and down from around the house I wound them around a cardboard tube from inside a roll of paper towels. Then I slid the tube out and gently placed the light rolls inside cardboard boxes, small enough to only fit one roll of lights...this way they don't wriggle around. I got the boxes from the grocery store. I thought this was pretty clever.
So this year I got everything out, prepared to put them up....and this is where Len said, "knitters are smart!" I realized that I can pull the beginning of the strand of lights just like a ball of wool!! From the centre! It was awesome, no tears, no swearing, no tangling. I only need to pull out the lights from the centre of the ball as I needed them, to string them around the window.

Yes, Len knitters are smart!!
When ever your stuck with a problem just think, what would a knitter do!

Just a few shots from our trip to Ottermere in July 2006

Allyeggpop — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:12:44 -0500

Photo Happy

Allyeggpop — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:00:00 -0500

I'm a little photo happy today. Jamie and Amanda have long been telling me to use BlogJet for adding photos to my blog. I don't know why I haven't yet, but today I tried it. And well I loved it so much I got a little photo happy. I added some new pics of Caleb from around June this year and I added some from our trip to Ottermere this summer. So stay tuned for more baby pictures, cat pictures, craft pictures...................

Eye Popping

Allyeggpop — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:58:58 -0500

I was browsing through some of my older favorites in my bookmarks when I stumbled on this pretty amazing website, called Eyewonder. It's by two Calgary artists who quit their jobs to become artists after their son was born.

Fine Print....

Allyeggpop — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:50:49 -0500

Well we're back online.

A few weeks ago we very happily bid farewell, good riddance to Bell!! Hoorah! We've only been waiting for years to do it. And so we bundled our existing services and switched over to Cogeco.

We were happy, excited....that is until we tried to use the internet. For some reason we couldn't get on. Now let me set the stage for our thinking. Our computer is a few years old, it was a wedding gift actually from a friend of Len's in Vancouver. When he heard about our impending nuptials he cobbled together a computer for us and mailed it out. Now, this isn't as bad as it sounds, he does do this for a living. Its been a great computer for us. We've always treated it with respect, much like we would an elderly person. We appreciate all it does for us and recognize it has certain limitations as the years go by, and so we try not to ask too much of it. Like it's operating system for instance Windows 98. Yes, you heard me. Windows 98. If we even suggested updating, it may have brought on the untimely retirement of our dear friend.

And so with this in mind I bring you back to our story. We get phone...we lose the internet. Cogeco had supplied a new modem for the additional services, so we surmised that may have been the culprit. Len tinkered....Len called Cogeco...Len tinkered some more. I asked our computer guys at work. They joked...did you plug it in! Duh, how stupid do they think we are. To their credit, they only asked that because they were completely stumped. They couldn't figure out why our computer couldn't accept the new modem. So disheartened, a little sad we decided maybe it was time to bid farewell to the computer.

Len went out and bought dics and began backing up all our data, to transfer to a new computer. Luckily, we had the help of Len's friend. Now I say luckily not because backing up files is a time consuming task, but luckily Ted knows how to read. Ted had been plugging away at the helm, with us over his shoulder, when he noticed that the bar in the bottom right side of the browser indicated activity. How odd for a computer which apparently could not connect to the modem. So following a hunch, Ted opened up Mozilla, cleared the cache and clicked on the home page button. And there, before our eyes, a Cogeco homepage came up with the self-activate services including the ability to select a service plan, its attributes, and review the terms of the service agreement. Apparently these self-activation and self-care features are supposed to drive subscriber empowerment, resulting in significantly increased customer satisfaction, and the ability for the cable operator to reduce costs and support increased subscriber volumes. (Yes! thats a direct oquote of theirs!) But I figure if they maybe tell the customers that it might help our empowerment issues!!!

So the long and the short of it, we have internet again, we apologized profusely to our computer for ever doubting it, and we'll never think unfaithful thoughts again.

We Did It!!

Allyeggpop — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:41:06 -0400

Yup, that's right. Four out of Five Trail Raders finished their races this weekend when we competed in Paul's Dirty Enduro,

BUT the 5th rode 47 km, and only quit after much persistence after a mechanical issue knocked him out.

So super cheers to us for finishing the grueling 15 km and cheers to Ross for his 47km. Fireworks, YAY!!!

And now for the official report. Keith placed 2nd, and finished in 50 minutes, not bad for a guy who didn't even train for the event!

I pulled in at 1hr and 54 mins - and looking back I am confident that I can shave that time down no problem for next year.

Amanda pulled in some 15 mins after me, (feel free to correct me) (and I'm hoping that either Her or Him post some photos soon, cuz we didn't have our camera)

Len finished another 15 - 20 after that.

Our team raised $334 so combined with all the pledges, the race raised over $10,000, Proceeds from Paul's Dirty Enduro are donated to the Canadian Mental Health Associationin Paul Rush's memory. Paul was a family member and good friend of many of the volunteers. He was also a kickin' mountainbiker who knew and loved the Ganaraska Forest.

This annual event is a tribute to our friend Paul who took his own life. It is our memorial to Paul's memory to help the CMHA raise funds to be used for suicide prevention and mental health issues in the community.

Our goal is to increase prevention and awareness about the tragedy of suicide.The money is used for CMHA programs including very important suicide prevention programs in Ontario Highschools.

The trails were demanding but everyone really enjoyed them. They had something to offer for all of us, alot of up and down, good speed, alot of sand, challenging technical parts, the course was well marked,and the volunteers looked after us really well. Despite, the physical and mental challenge of it all, it was alot of fun. For the first 6 km I rode mostly with Amanda and she was out there making friends, chit chatting and even as I pulled ahead, I could hear her funny laugh through the trees!

The camping turned out really well too, we stayed warm and dry in our tents at night and we had room to spread out and prepare the day of the race. So if your at all interested in giving yourself a challenge I definitely encourage you to check it out, the Trail Raders can't wait for next year!!

If shenuts we all nuts....

Allyeggpop — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:43:12 -0400

Jamie and I have these imaginary friends sometimes that someone is alright in our books if we could be friends with them. The number one things is that they have to be normal. And by normal I mean, watch too much t.v, knit, crochet, and complain when housework gets in the way of said activities. Normal is also saying stupid things about parenting before we had kids, retract it all after having kids, then make fun of the people who have no kids and tell us how to parent.
On this list is Reese Witherspoon, who bought a cream coloured couch with a baby in the house...but here's the catch, she knows how stupid that was! We would hang out with her. She's normal
So with that in mind I had to post this link for the Sarcastic Journalist. I've read her blog for a while, she's funny, she's sarcastic, she tells it like it is.
Now if I only had a credit card I could order one of these for everyone I know. (cuz it seems everyone has poop-o-matics on order)