• Olive "Peahoodies"
• Dear Diary by Lesley Arfin
• The Black Apple Little Misfits Sampler pack
• I have a friend with a little dude that may go ga-ga over these French flash cards

• Gorgeous letterpress stationary...drool!
• I could spend lots of money here on very pretty things.  Violet
• This could be a nice anniversary gift. Especially since my husband has an appreciation of Pulp Fiction.
• Fancy things for kids that my daughter will never have.  Because they will get super dirty and ruined.  No child I know lives in such a bubble.  And if they do, hope the parents are putting away the therapy fund.
• I LOVE this elephant necklace from Wink

• Free Rice.  Keep your brain sharp and feed those in need.  Win-Win situation here.
• One of my recent favorite cocktails...French 75:  Combine ¾ oz. gin, ½ oz. fresh lemon juice, and ½ oz. simple syrup. Shake, strain into a champagne flute, top with champagne, and garnish with a twist.
• Fresh, delivered baked cookies?  Sign me up!!
• Make a suggestion on improvements for our region - Should Do This
• Mmmm...Sugar Bakery...on Madison
• I'm becoming so intrigued by design and simplicity in decoration.  I love sites like this.
• Viv & Ingrid - simple, classy jewels for day and night.

Hm...I had a Huffington Post entry I wanted to link to as well.  But didn't save that mail and now cannot find it.  Must not have been that good huh?

• Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers.  Who knew?!  I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find men who look like all those fabulous (and not so fabulous) men in our lives...
• Fancy & Pants.  Local shop with cool things.
• Nine Inch Nails blog.  Yum-OH!
• Another birthday hint...LUSH!

I spent the day at the spa.  And when I say I spent the day there...I showed up at 9:30 so I could work out before my treatments, then had a massage, then lunch, then facial, then pedi...it was almost 4pm when I exited.  Boy, do I love the spa.  Especially extra massaging.  My body is like jello today...

Post office drawback cited in dark forecast for Netflix.  Really?  Why can't Netflix order new envelopes along the lines of what the other won't-be-named business is doing?  Sure, may be a hit for new envelopes, but wouldn't that be better in the long term?  Does no one at the top understand this?

Funny observation on parenthood from Dooce.

From Daily Candy:

• The Passionate Collector, beautiful and unique jewelry
• This is a shout out to my Geeky Mama, Chewbacca USB Drive.
• Wish we had this Monster Spray when the Dinosaur Zoo was still open.  Although the Princess Spray may come in handy for making sure A has good dreams (which she often asks us to "put" into her head at night time)

 And, by the way, I am feeling MUCH better this week.  As my very loving husband pointed out, it seems I tend to blog when I'm sick and complain about being ill on here.  We'll see if I can change that going forward. 

1. This is a somewhat inside joke my friend Ang shares with me.  But it's really true.  No one is the boss of me.
2. More decadent than any girl really needs.
3. How could one say no to 1080 Recipes?
4. For the Darfur or Genocide Prevention activisit, show your support.
5. Those with a fine stationary fetish like me, customized bookmarks.  Or anything on this site:  http://www.shopheidi.com/

So is anyone else out there struggling to get into the holiday mood like me?

• I found this blog via Dooce.  Might be added to regular reading, maybe not.  I'm intrigued so far.
• Another find from Dooce:  100 Ways to Say I Love You.  I think the person that asked for the 100 ways should be banned from using any single mention by the author.  That is way too much creativity in there.
• I find that this blog tool (MSN Spaces) has some sort of bug that I type, and 60 seconds later my words show up.  It's really annoying.  So that "creativity" I used in the last paragraph originally came out as "cativity".  And hey don't have a spell checker.  Come on already!
• AHHHHHHH  Jo Malone is now at Nordstrom!  Everyone do the happy dance!
• Comentary from Alec Baldwin on the strike.  (Courtesy of The Huffington Post, my latest RSS add)

And in other news, I fell last night.  One of those totally stupid, embarassing stories like tripping on the (wire) laundry basket, landing full left-side-of-body on said wire basket and getting approximately 6 bruises in the process.  The worst being the one on my left thigh starting on the inside of my leg, stretching over almost to my knee.  It must be at least 6 or 7 inches long.  I kid you not.  Puts a whole new light on that cute little black dress I planned to wear in L.A. this weekend...  Then a workout with my trainer this morning that worked those muscles and my arms.  I have a headache.  The Ibuprofen is wearing off.  If I wasn't at work right now, I'd be much more medicated than I am presently.  So, I suppose that level of numbness is only 6 hours away...

As if one day in a week of linky's wasn't good enough...here my ADD-ladden mind has some more. Or perhaps its because I'm cleaning out my email that I want to capture some of these somewhere that isn't an email message...

• Don't these chips look good?
• Carrie Akre's new CD is out.  Get it now!!
• This organizer looks really cool.  Will you buy me one?

And in other news, I saw Henry Rollins Provoked last night.  Now, let me first say I love listening to him talk and his points-of-view on the world.  I always pick up some nugget.  Often times he succeeds at expanding some thought or belief in my mind.  I cannot recount how many times I saw him back in NJ at City Gardens.  I watch his show and special on IFC with attentive eyes and mind.  Not really into the music, more into the spoken word.  That said, he is insane.  He talked for 3 hours and 10 minutes and did not stop until the 3 hour mark to take a quick sip of water and then keep going.  The audience was definitely getting tired (you could see the antsy seat shifting 150 minutes in) and I know I certainly was.  My mind was drifting to the midnight conference call I had to be on.  For a person that is as out-spoken and famous as he is, he is just as insecure as the rest of us.  I think I now have this new perspective that if I saw him walking down the street, I could go up to him and strike up a conversation.  Yep, Henry Rollins.  Of course, it doesn't hurt that he is so easy on the eyes...

• Spam One Liners (as art)
  You know what I'm talking about.  Although, the collection is mysteriously missing the "my boyfriend is so small he keep falling out".  Oh - you don't get those?  Hm...what does that say about me?
• Funky cool jewelry
  I may have done this link before, I can hardly keep my life straight these days...
• Pulp Lab (found on Daily Candy)
  Support local artists?  How about a rotating gallery?  Then this place is just right for you.
• Harvard Sweet Boutique (another Daily Candy find)
  I really need NO reason what-so-ever to try out new candy treats.  And these are so pretty.
• Office Supplies (See Jane Work - you guessed it, Daily Candy)
  I have a rather odd fetish for cool office supplies and especially pretty papers.
• Female Empowerment
  To my constant ravings of not having enough girly role models for our children (girls and boys alike) here is some fun Geeky stuff from none other than Gwen Stefani (and HP).

• Crown Black Car, when a cab just isn't stylish enough (or you are nearly broke from all that bar hopping)
• Really big rings for bold statements
• More opportunity to feed my stationary fetish...

And more along the lines of commentary I bring you these:

OK, Ellen made a mistake.  She didn't read the fine print on her dog adoption.  It appears to me that she tried to do the right thing by then finding the dog another home.  Not leave it abandoned or dropping it at another shelter.  She went to someone she knew - come on, what woman doesn't have a special bond with her hair stylist? - and that dog went to a family that loves it.  Come on Mutts & Moms, give Iggy back to those two little girls.  I think they should be the ones under fire right now, not Ellen.  Is what she did really any different than any of us?

This story makes me laugh, shake my head and think "Stupid people".  The idea of mixing alcohol and remodel?  Really?  People honestly think this is a good idea?  Power tools people!  Heavy machinery and electricity and hammers.  You really want to be having a beer with that?  Save the party for afterwards.  Toast the new drywall or plumbing after the job is done - not during it.  If you are stupid enough to invite your friends over, who have no experience in home repair/design/improvement, and you hand them multiple alcoholic beverages during the job - then you deserve to pay whatever high price it takes an expert to repair the damage.  Don't even bitch about it.  Don't even go there.