I'm not really sure how to introduce these inside-out teddy bears.

Suffice it to say, I am torn between loving them and fearing them.

I expect that's the point.



(via Kent Rogowski's Bears Project, thanks to Michael)

I saw Kangaroos for Christmas

So I dragged my parents and my husband to the Christmas Tree and Kangaroo Farm on December 23! Yes, when you were all madly wrapping presents, or out shopping, or sensibly staying home with hot toddies and butter cookies, I was mucking about (literally) with kangaroos.

Read all about it at The Nervous Breakdown, because you know you want to see me pet a member of the third largest species of rodent. (Not kangaroos, by the way.)

My one New Years Resolution

Use more Splenda.

All those teaspoons of sugar in my coffee must add up, if I'm drinking three to five cups a day.

Two teaspoons of sugar times five cups times 365 days a year?

That's a whole lotta sugar.

And maybe it doesn't matter. I'm not going to stop drinking coffee. I'm not going to go out of my way to bring Splenda with me to restaurants if they don't offer it. I'm not using those other sweeteners. Stevia doesn't really do it for me.

But maybe it will help, if only marginally.

I bought a box of 500 Splenda packets from Costco. Let's see how it goes.

(Splenda did not pay me for this post. But if they'd like to, they can contact me.)

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