Baby Got Target

So, I'm in our Target (actually, the Target that is second-to-closest to me, as it's a bit nicer) on Friday shopping for various items, when I took a short cut through the CDs to get to the new DVD releases. In this Target, we have one of those cool little listening stations where you can preview CDs. The listening station in this Target is sequestered away from the beaten path, but is visible if you take the shortcut that I, in fact, did take.

A movement, nay, a set of movements caught my eye as I wheeled the cart and cooed at the B, who was riding in my front carrier and grinning at me. I looked over, and there was a guy just grooving out. I took a moment and lent my musician's ear to the task, and discovered that he was listening to...

Baby Got Back.

No, really. Baby Got Back. I swear, I told you all that the midwest is about twenty years behind the coasts. This proves it. I'm not cool, and even I know that Baby Got Back isn't cool, and dancing to it in the middle of a Target is the epitome of not cooledness.

What's worse, is that he didn't look cool, like Sir Mix A Lot does:


He looked more like this:


Hard. Core. G to the E to the E to the K.

She's Growing Up Faster than I Am

I put the B in her crib about an hour ago, and she blinked up at me when I did it. When I checked on her a moment ago, she was absolutely sound asleep. Tonight was the first night I put her in her crib while she was still awake, but drowsy. She showed me last night (early this morning, actually) at 3:00 a.m. that she could put herself back to sleep after she awoke, so I decided to give her the opportunity to do it at bedtime tonight.

Now that she's asleep and cooing softly over the baby monitor, I find that I miss sitting in the darkness of her room and rocking her completely to sleep in the gliding rocker.

What happened to the tiny little baby who needed me in order to go to sleep? I looked forward to this milestone, to having a few extra quiet moments to myself each night while also being able to bask in the knowledge that she'd conquered another task of growing up. Now I find myself wondering if it'll jeopardize her progress if I rock her to sleep once or twice a week.

More Annoying Parent Videos

Ugh, the grammar in that title makes me cringe. Is the the parent or the video that's annoying? I can't think of anything better, so I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide exactly what is being modified there. (I vote parent and not video, but I'm no fascist...make up your own mind.)

Anyway, a fresh new series of B videos have been unleashed on YouTube. A link to all of those videos is available in my list of links, but here's a link to just the three new Brigid videos. If there are only two vids there, that means the third one still hasn't gone live yet.

And now for your embedded pleasure (that came out wrong!) viewing pleasure, my tiny B trying her first solid food:



There is a much cuter video of her playing in her exersaucer, but for reasons known only to Those Who Watch Over the Internets it hasn't shown up as "live" on You Tube yet. You should be able to see it, assuming you are one of the four people on Earth who wants to do so, by following the link above, assuming it's gone live by the time you click that link, and that I've noticed and added it to the playlist. Bother.

Do You Have HBO?

If you do, think about catching Robert Wuhl in Assume the Position. From the summary at hbo.com:

Appearing before a spirited classroom of actual New York City college students, guest "professor" and history buff Wuhl takes his audience on a lighthearted journey to show how legends are created, exploring familiar chapters in America's past that owe more to popular culture than fact.

I know it sounds like it might be boring, but it's really funny. Maybe you think Robert Wuhl is jive or something, but just remember him in Bull Durham. You have to admit, that was quality. I didn't like Arli$$ much, but my opinion of Robert Wuhl is a lot higher after seeing this comedy/history special. I highly recommend it.

Redefining Desolate

The Google satellite images of Chernobyl marking the 20th anniversary of the disaster are spooky, to say the least.

This Was Sweet

Okay, you could be cynical and make fun of this sweet little Flash animation, or you could remember what it's like to be seventeen or so and be charmed by it.

Good Quotes from my Google QOTD

Two great quotes today. I'm big fans of both of these dead guys.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley