It was incredibly slow at work today with very few customers trickling in and I was just walking around straightening pillows when a mom who was maybe 7 months along came in with her two and a half year old son. She was walking around the store looking at little knick knacks trying to find suitable hostess gifts for a dinner party she was going to tomorrow. While she's trying to pick stuff out and get out of the store in a timely fashion without her son accidentally breaking anything, this little boy starts asking his mom all these questions about the breakable things in the store. Seeing that she was getting frustrated I went over and bent down to talk to him and asked him if he'd like to see some of our toys. He nodded shyly and I went and got him a ball covered in little rubbery spikes. I must have said, "There ya go buddy!" or something similar because every time he talked to me, he called me buddy. I played with him all over the store, (we went on a treasure hunt for "lellow" ((yellow)) items because that was his favorite color). Eventually more customers entered the store and I had to help them so I left him with his mother and went to do my job. He didn't stay with his mom. He followed after me, getting lost in the different aisles of our store calling out, "Buddy? Buddy?" trying to find me. Cutest little boy ever!

in a hospital. No one laughs at God in a war. No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor. No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests. No one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late and their kid's not back from that party yet. No one laughs at God when their airplane starts uncontrollably shaking. No one's laughing at God when they see the one they love hand in hand with someone else and they hope that they're mistaken. But God can be funny at a cocktail party listening to a good g*ddamn joke. Or when the crazies say He hates and they get so red in the head you think they're about to choke. God can be funny when told He'll give you money if you just pray the right way, or presented like a genie who does magic like Houdini or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Clause. God can be so hilarious.


-Regina Spektor, from her song Laughing With

I'm coming home in a few days!!!!

Today, I found out that my favorite song on the radio is about a threesome. How disappointing.

that if it is cold outside then the only acceptable forms of precipitation are ice and snow. Preferably snow. Rain is just a nuisance. That's my complaint of the week.