Toys of the 80’s. That’s a huge time suck if ever I saw one. I spent half the day reminiscing about Popples and Puffalumps and Care Bears.

Snookums’s Link Of the Day: Best Pictures of 2003. “There’s one in there from South Bend!”

The date for this year’s Nike Women’s Classic has been posted: June 20th. That’s just over thirteen weeks away. As I’ve run the 5K the past two years, I’m wondering if I should stick with that and try to improve my pace or challenge myself to complete the 10K. What do you guys think? Any particular good, tried-and-true training programs? I should be meeting with my personal trainer sometime in the next two weeks so I’ll check with him and see what he recommends.

“New fashion of this Spring! It’s gonna hit big! She’s kind of froggy…”

Oh. My. God. (No, that’s no my cat.) I love the Japanese. Check out this page of costumes for cats. The descriptions are as funny as the pictures. What kind of person dresses their cat up as “Anne of Green Gables”? I do like the “gentleman’s” shirt and tie though. It’s “the least that handsome boy needs.” And don’t forget to give you cat a “hub” afterwards!

I’ve made an unofficial start on the Cheesylove sweater my sister and I are doing as a knitalong. (She’s not doing the ruffle and I am, so I’m starting a little early.) Good grief. Do you know how long it takes to cast on 504 stitches? Frickin’ ages! And technically you have to do that twice, because the real ruffle’s supposed to be 1008 stitches. Now I understand why they have you do it in two parts, otherwise you’d need a circular needle about three feet long.

What?? Princess Di had an affair with General Zod??

New seasonal site theme for the week… Remember kids, Guinness is good for you!

Attention Sydney reality TV fans: Channel Seven has just started rebroadcasting the first season of The Amazing Race! It’s on Sunday mornings at 11:00. The Snook and I are enjoying seeing how it all began.

Grrrr. I woke up this morning to discover I’d been spammed by the “brokenman.net” guy (not a link to his site). He’s got an album launch happening soon or something. I wrote him back to say, “It’s bad enough I have to see your spam all over the sidewalk, but now I have to get it in my Inbox too? Please take me off your mailing list.” I’m all for underground fight-the-power guerilla marketing tactics myself but this is getting ridiculous.