I know little girls can be scaredy-cats sometimes, but sometimes they want to be brave. So I thought maybe, with daddy's approval, some would want to look through electron microscopes at.. BUG FACES. Real bugs!

www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/...s.html

Don't look at the first one, honey -- it's all wormy. The next ones are ok, though, as long as we look at them together. :D

I feel the itch to improve my home.. but only slightly, and not with anything that'll last for more than a year or two. Therefore this weekend I am going to Ikea! Something will be green plastic or blonde wood, I can promise you that. Something will have an umlaut, some "o" will be crossed, and something will have a consonant I'm not accustomed to seeing next to a k next to a k, but I figure I can bag ALL THAT for less than $80.

But if there're meatballs, lingonberries, or chocolate for my baby involved -- and there may -- it could be more.

Wow! This BBC story has a 4-5 minute video of a British mom who stays with South American Indians. I love that stuff. I wish I could do it!

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7469897.stm

There's some nudity, but it's not naughty. I like how an Indian lady says to her "If I am still alive when you come back, you should bring lots of yarn."

My baby and I were talking about childhood cartoons we liked that weren't Disney, and we found a really cool series or two from her childhood. We might have to buy them from eBay Germany, though! I would love to see some Asterix the Gaul cartoons in English, too.

And, also, although I've never seen Cool Runnings (one of my baby's favorites), I am really happy to see John Candy is in it! I miss John Candy. I'm pretty sure he was Canadian.

BTW, if you want to know MY favorite non-cartoon Disney movies, princess, they're "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", "Something Wicked this Way Comes", and maybe even "The Cat from Outer Space". I found my favorite scene from the end of Bedknobs & Broomsticks on Youtube while we were digging up old cartoons. We're gonna watch it together soon, honey -- just because it's old doesn't mean it's bad. It has magic and is set in WWII in England, my favorite historical place & period. Part of it really reminds me of Disney's Robin Hood, too. Have you guys seen that one?

I don't know what possessed me to look up Klezmer music, but it's the sort of crazy piping 'Havah Negilah" Jewish music you hear sometimes in movie scores. Honestly, I think my baby's head might explode if she heard it, but she may as well, given her stated willingness to convert and have what may be the world's first Jewish-Norwegian children in decades. But really, I've never heard it in person, just on the radio and movies. It's just way too ethnic for me, even if it's my own ethnicity.. going way back, anyway.

I have this aunt who keeps sending me Jewish spam. Jokes, chain emails about Israel, and general "over 50" email forwards, all of which are pretty Jewy. It's annoying, so I'm thinking of out-Jewing her with Klezmer. I'll have it playing loudly when I start my car around her and not even mention it, as though it's always that way. I'm thinking she'll then have to pretend she likes Klezmer too.. or else she will have been out-Jewed!

If we move this strictly to fantasy, I could even get a big blue star of David sticker put on the hood of my car, which is white, and two blue stripes. And I could drive up playing Klezmer with the top down. With a big beard and a black hat. And printouts of her humorous ethnic email forwards. And a baggie of matzo with me to snack on. She'd learn her lesson and never send Jew spam again.