oil spill from space

This is making me so sad. 

Via the Wired Science Blog.

babiesbabiesbabies

Eeep! I cannot wait to see this. I am bonkers for babies.

suiting up

Oh, how I wish I had little boobs and a flat tummy! I have been keeping my eyes open for the perfect bathing suit for this summer ever since last fall and haven't had much luck. There have been a few, but none quite as cute as this.

Via the Frances May Blog.

craigslist treasures

Gosh darn it. There's so many nice things (mostly chairs, apparently) that I would love to own. I torture myself every day with the new furniture added to Craigslist. If only I could afford it all... I am certain I would have the loveliest apartment in all of Seattle.

neighborhood friends

Meeeeooowww.

today with kai

The cows seemed a bit suspicious of us at first...

But not even the Mini Panda Cattle can resist Kai's charm.

My day was not going the way I had foreseen it. I was awfully grumpy. But as you can see, things turned around. There's nothing some friendly farm animals, Molly Moon ice cream and my best friend Kai can't fix.

a tip

Ah! So good, always good.

a travel query

Dear friends,

My employers are going to be out of town for two weeks in May, allowing a little vacation time for myself. I have contemplated different options, however I haven't settled on anything quite yet. I have a small budget and no traveling companions (friends and boyfriend are busy with work and/or other plans). I don't want to end up sitting around Seattle the entire time! What do you think I should do? Where would you go?

must gush

On Todd Selby's twitter yesterday, he tweeted that he was doing a casting call for the next Cole Haan ad campaign, which he is shooting. I immediately thought of my friend Olivia and her boyfriend, Robin. They are an attractive, talented young couple and would be perfect for this sort of thing. I emailed Todd Selby's assistant to give her the heads up about them. As she and I wrote back and forth throughout the day and part of this afternoon, I decided to go out on a limb and submit a photo of myself and Kai, hoping that his cuteness might rub off on me, and that by playing the hip nanny card,  I might be more appealing. She wrote me back and said "they" (she and Todd?!) thought I was adorable - but sadly (so sadly) upon discovering that I live in Seattle, it wouldn't be possible as they need New Yorkers. Shoot! Oh well, I was close to being in The Selby's next photoshoot and that's good enough for me.

While speaking of The Selby, I received his book in the mail yesterday. I looked through it twice last night and bookmarked some of my favorites. I will probably pour over it more this evening.

I feel good