Bullet Points

[kcobweb]

* I have "Turkey in the Straw" stuck in my head, but with alternate lyrics penned by saltcod from many many years ago. ("The weasel who couldn't lay an egg"?) My brain is weird. (The song is in my brain because we've been playing a CD of children's folk songs.)

* I got a huge packet of information today in the mail from the Nova Scotia Tourism Office! We're hoping to carve out a week or so in early September. I'm so damned excited.

* Right after discussing whale-watching with galagan and how I've never been and always wanted to go, my sister called and then we had a conversation about she feels the same - always wanted to, never gets to.

* My sister did tell me that when she was in Maine last month, she saw a place where they were giving PUFFIN TOURS. OMG, how did I not know such things exist? I want to drive up there right now in order to be first in line to see puffins.

* My sister is leaving for Switzerland in 3 days (for a month in Europe - one week of singing, followed by 3 weeks of putzing around with her boyfriend), but she was rather envious of our planned trip to Nova Scotia. So I guess we're even.

* I have a splinter in my foot, and this is not the first I've had this week. (galagan thinks I need to stop going barefoot, but *that's* not going to happen.) I can't get this one out. There's been lots of digging around with pin and tweezers. Damn it, it hurts, and it's right on the pad of my foot where it bears pretty much all my weight. Bugger.

* I'm giving in to the global mindmeld, and re-reading HP Book VI.

* I got a free doll stroller today, via Freecycle. As soon as I straighten the frame a little bit and clean it out, Elena will be So. Excited.

* Nova Scotia! I think I need a kilt. I had one when I was little, complete with one of those giant safety pin thingies.

Comments

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

Nova Scotia! How exciting! Sounds like a blast.

I haven't gone barefoot since I was a kid. I can't, actually. I have low arches and I need some support. In the summer though, I live in my sandals. Right now it's the Croc sandals all the time.

And I totally hear you on the globe-trotting child-free sib. My brother and his girlfriend are off to Germany next month. *sigh*

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

My sister lived in Germany for 3 years after her masters degree - and this gig is a holdover from those days: people she knows from back then got her the job, etc. etc. So she has definitely traveled more in Europe than I have. I count myself lucky because I got to go visit her there once.

[allthatjazmyne.livejournal.com]

Splinter- my inhouse splinter expert suggests soaking your feet in warm water. He says warm water + epsom salts is the best, although I think a warm bath would be more pleasant. He also says it might not come out. But he has thick boyskin, so I think the rules are different.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

* My sister did tell me that when she was in Maine last month, she saw a place where they were giving PUFFIN TOURS. OMG, how did I not know such things exist?

My mother's going up to Maine with her birding group next weekend to see puffins. Dunno if it's one of those tours specifically, though.