Preparations for Parenthood

This is way off topic, but have you ever browsed accidental screenshots on your computer?  Hilarious.

Exhibit A:

And yes, there are about 30 more where this came from, weirdly focusing on Eric, the p90x-er who lives in a boat and likes green bean soup (you have to have done p90x for a while to understand these references...anyway...).

We've had a good week around here.  Life seems to focus on keeping  our child constantly fed and my body minimally angry, but we've also been surviving a tax deadline (almost), cashing in on Scott's Fiji project finale, going to a Real soccer game, and working on projects at home.

I've been doing some sewing, which is pretty out-of-character for me, since I possess no sewing skills.  I am actually enjoying myself though and I've made a bunch of things for the nursery and the baby.  These are some pieces of art I like to call, "Scott Goes on Too Many Business Trips":

I'll have to do a full-on nursery post at some point as well since it's all finished.

My other preparations for our child are significantly less fun like....trying to care about any of these other products I need to get.  I'm not really planning on nursing or wearing my baby like a necklace or jogging with a baby in tow or finding the best nasal aspirator, so researching these things just makes me want to take a nap.  I'm also trying to read up on how to get my baby to sleep well and I think those books are a great alternative to sleeping pills because, Zzzzzz.  The only baby reading that doesn't put me to sleep is the labor preparation stuff because,

I can sort of get on board with baby attire, but the rest is significantly less interesting to me.  I'll just stick to things that do interest me like sewing small shoes and taxes...

Anyway, Scott's been reading up on some things as well, but his main preparation for fatherhood comes in the form of this shirt, which he brought home from his work luau lunch:

Noooow he can be a dad.

Tiny Brown Shoelaces

We run a pretty lean operation around here with minimal monthly subscription extravagances, however, last December we got sucked into Amazon Prime, which is both wonderful and disturbing.  Now every time I need something, even something easily obtained at a local store, I find myself considering if I can just wait two days and not go anywhere.

Scott has become particularly fond of online shopping in recent months and I find small, strange packages arriving very frequently.  Most of them are random tools and odds and ends that he "needs" like knee pads or anti-static spray. Anyway, after a few packages had arrived one week, he got an email asking if he'd review some of his recent purchases.  He wasn't pleased with the size of some vice grips he got, so he got online to review them.

Unfortunately, due to the number of items he's recently purchased, he mistakenly wrote a review about the vice grips on a page for some brown shoelaces, which I just can't stop laughing about.  His review described how "tiny" the product was and I'm just laughing imagining other people reading about someone who is so disgruntled about tiny brown shoelaces.  Especially since the product was called "Very thin dress round shoelaces."  Too thin for some people. Haha.

The poor shoelace company immediately refunded us and apologized for the tinyness of the shoelaces and we couldn't even figure out how to contact them and let them know that we liked the shoelaces just fine and didn't need the refund.  The struggles of online shopping.

A few months back I got an email about a negative review I supposedly wrote about a product, and we freaked out and changed our passwords since I didn't actually write the review.  Now I'm pretty sure I know who did...

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