clickies (sleep deprived in seattle edtion)

Labyrinths, for sale or rent. (from the lovely shadesong.)

Concept model fabric PC.

Girls and Boys: friendship cross-gender between children and the difficulties within. Been there, oh yes. (from the fabulous mactavish.)

(parenthetical note: one of those Things My Parents Did Or Said That Still Doesn't Make Sense Now was their constant insistence that 'if boys pick on you that means they like you.' Uh, sorry Ma, Dad, but that doesn't always work - of course they were generally suffering from a well-intentioned but annoying denial of my lack of social standing. I actually wonder if that notion ever holds any water at all.)

Really awesome ironing board design. I think this is one of those proofs-of-adulthood - when one can get excited about an ironing board - but DUDE, it's really cool.

Ugh. Got four hours of substandard sleep. So tired.

i win!

Victory! I have wrest (wrested?) my mail from the hands of the Sorting Minions! I shall pick it up today. I got a reasonable Sorting Minion named Debbie who was willing to bundle my mail and put it aside so's I can pick it up. She told me to ask for her directly, and that she was in until 4:30.

Apparently regular mail service will be resuming tomorrow. We shall believe that when we see it.

My house smells like Sean's favorite cookies:

(recipe taken from Moosewood restaurant new classics.)

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup oat bran or wheat germ (don't stop reading now! I promise, they're good)
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup raisins (I suppose you can use other dried fruit but I don't feel the need to. They would probably be scrumdiddlyumptious with dried apples or cherries.)

Cream sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix in. Add together all remaining ingredients except raisins in separate bowl; add contents of bowls together. (or you can be like me and just dump everything together in the same bowl. I am sometimes lazy.) Mix in raisins. Drop in largish clumps on baking sheet; bake at 350F for 15 minutes. Makes twelve hugemongous cookies or thereabouts. Don't take them off the cookie sheet right away as they are structurally unsound when freshly warm and recently oven-deprived.

And I'm off for the afternoon, meeting mirrormargaret and uglybass downtown! Have fun.