This seems like a Monday post

Evie: “Mommy, which season is your favorite?”
Sara (with a confused look): “…Season 2?”
Shane: ::laughing::
Sara: “Ooooh, spring! I couldn’t figure out what she meant, the only other answer I could think of was ‘pepper’!”

In a bit of shameless self-promotion, you can go over and check out Alexis’ post about their recent visit. Her post is much nicer than mine, including nice pictures. Okay, it’s sort of narcissistic, but I make this promise to you: I will link to any blogger’s post that says nice things about me or shows nice pictures of my daughter (as long as they don’t also say horrible, unrelated things in the post). That’s just how I roll.

I mentioned before about Evie’s interesting take on telling time. Every morning, before we can eat breakfast, Evie makes me put on her “watch” so she can look at it, see it is time for breakfast, and then take it off. I think she has her units messed up, because lately she’s been telling the time as, “Quarter past pounds”.

I thought I said before (but I couldn’t find it to link to it) that when you ask Evie how she slept, (not how long) she says, “30 hours”. I think she has gotten the idea somehow that “30 hours” is a phrase that is synonymous with a lot, because she told Sara, “I love you 30 hours. That’s how much I love you mommy.”

She has been telling Sara in the morning that, “I was in a tent and I zipped it up and then I slept and then I came back here.” So if you see a tiny form sneaking out the bedroom window, she’s probably just off to her nightly camping trip.

I was trying to get Evie to give me Echo, for no better reason than she didn’t want to give it to me. I kept demanding and she kept saying no, until finally she said, “I am not giving up daddy! That’s the truth!”

Sara: “What did you and daddy have for supper?”
Evie: “Bacon.”
Sara: “What else did you have besides bacon?”
Evie: “Bacon. And more bacon. And more bacon…”

Project BLT

I can’t embed this, but check out this graphical tree depictionof making a BLT from scratch. And when I say from scratch, I mean from scratch. Follow the bacon tree branch down to collecting sea water for sea salt, and distilling raw sugar cane for the pork rub. The homemade mayonnaise branch alone has 17 sub-steps, 8 of them under homemade mustard.

And if staring at the delicious pictures makes you hungry, you can go sign up for the bacon-of-the-month club. What could be better than delicious bacon delivered to your doorstep every month? And you can’t dislike a company with a motto like, “It’s a bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon world.”

Bacon-of-the-month club link via Meg, who teased me by saying she would have gotten it for me for Christmas, but she didn’t. 😛

Oh ThinkGeek, what will you think of next?

I make no attempt to hide my love of ThinkGeek here on the blog. Every time I get the newsletter, there is always something cool to report. This month was no exception, giving us the amazing Tac Bac – Tactical Canned Bacon. This is amazing, you can stockpile it up and it will last for 10 years. Well, it won’t last for 10 years, because you’ll eat it, but maybe in your hunger to get at the bacon you accidentally knock a can back behind the shelf or something and find it 9 years later…it’s still good! Why would you need to stockpile bacon? Well, for tactical purposes obviously (if you read the webpage closely, you’ll notice that they specifically mention the zombie apocalypse…I’m just saying)

But wait, there’s more! Special bonus ThinkGeek product, the Force Trainer. This thing blew my mind, basically you can train your Jedi skills in the use for the Force, like, for realz. You clamp this headgear on, which measures your brainwaves. Depending on how hard you’re concentrating, the ball will go up or down in the tube. I think this is probably as close as we are ever going to come to actual Force usage.

Yay ThinkGeek!

Now that’s what I call a daughter!

Tonight for dinner, Evie had 11 pieces of bacon. Then afterwords, she took a bath and we played with pirates. Isn’t parenting grand?

P.S. This is published post 666, the post of the beast. I hesitated to put a post about my daughter as the 666th post, but if you count private posts, it’s not really 666. I’m sure satan will take things like private posts into account.

Bacon Lip Balm

We obviously all agree that bacon makes (most) anything taste better. I don’t see any reason why this shouldn’t extend to lip balm.

This is from the people who made Bacon Salt, so I believe they know what they’re doing. It is a little pricey at $13 for a 4 pack, but come on! Well worth it.

I like how the article says, “bacon flavor both you and your partner can enjoy” which brings up an excellent point…if you taste like bacon, the chicks will undoubtedly come rolling in. (But not vegetarians)(but who needs them anyway)(sorry Rachael)

Link courtesy Meg.