she runs guns everyone wants guns she runs guns everyone wants there she goes

~jeremy fisher

okay, so I'm having a really hard time with this book thing for the baby shower. I figured hardcover was the way to go except they are SO expensive. I came home with You Are Special but I might return/exchange it today. I'm hoping to find the board book, which is like $7 and then get another book in paperback. I just wasn't going to spend $35 on a shower gift anyway, at least not for someone I'm not really really good friends with.

so anyway. we'll see. but the poor manager at barnes and noble probably thought I was a little bit of a nutcase.

but just a little.

the girl scout meeting went well. it was quite clear we were winging it, but that's okay. and there's a girl who has to explain EVERYTHING. and it makes me a leeeetle crazy. especially because when I say "alright, we'll we're going to talk about that next time, could you tell us about it then?" she replies "but it's all in my head and I gotta get it out!"

I think I'm going to ask matt for some pointers about girls like this. Kim suggested that I tell her to write it down. I thought if I asked her to wait that would help. only time will tell.

and? the girls LOVE that I know songs. :D even the moms joined in. we sang "Oh an Austrian Went Yodeling" and did the motions and everything.

oh, and the princess pat for whoever asked for it...

the princess pat lived in a tree

she sailed across the seven seas

she sailed across the channel two

and took with her a rick-a-bam-boo

a rick-a-bam-boo now what is that?

it's something made by the princess pat

it's red and gold and purple too

that's why it's called a rick-a-bam-boo

now captain jack had a mighty fine crew

he sailed across the channel two

but his ship sank and yours will too

if you don't take a rick-a-bam-boo

(repeat chorus)

yay for girl scout songs! :) I Cannot. Believe. How. Many. Of. Them. Are. Still. In. My. Head. Tonya can tell you. We sure did sing a lot of 'em in Atlantic City. Which is why George thinks she likes me better. ha!

tonight will hopefully be low-key. I'll go home, make that penne tomato mozzarella pasta and watch life since I dv-r'd it, then go to b&n and the grocery store for some OJ. and then grey's! and maybe if I'm feeling extra adventurous I'll clean something. like my room. or my car. before christina and sterling come NEXT FRIDAY! woo hoo!

oh, also. gertrude? she's gonna die soon. :( she laid her eggs though, so maybe we'll have a little friend next spring/summer too. I wonder if my attachment to this spider comes from charlotte's web. I betcha it does. I betcha. anyway, I took a picture of her with her egg sac--see?

and, despite the drought and watering restrictions my tomatoes are THRIVING. between my two roma plants I counted fifty six tomatoes in various stages of growth/ripening. it's amazing. I've never had a plant grow so well! hopefully they'll all come to fruition. ;)

it's especially fun for me, though, because my granddaddy loved loved LOVED growing tomatoes, and I'm pleased to know that I got his green thumb in that department. it's a pity that when he grew them I wasn't a fan of fresh tomatoes (ketchup please, no tomatoes) but now that I love 'em I don't get to have the ones he grew. But I *did* get some pointers from him, so that's kinda fun. I'll have to take pictures for y'all. um, and maybe send you some tomatoes. it looks like I'm gonna have a lot.

ps-thanks mucho for the oodles of comments y'all. I'm loving getting them. :)