Nyquil

You know it's a bad cold when you willingly resort to the awful NyQuil as medication. Most meds have a 1-or 2-teaspoon dosage, but Nyquil requires you to choke down 2 TABLEspoons. I was complaining about this to my mom when she reminded me that NyQuil also makes liquid tablets, so you really don't have to taste the nastiness at all. Thanks, mom! Off to the store...

Possessive families

I was just browsing through random blogs, and people really don't know when or how to use an apostrophe with a last name, do they? It isn't the Hanson's. It's the Hansons! Unless it's the Hanson's blog. Or the Hanson's Christmas card. But please don't sign your Christmas card "Love, the Hanson's." (Especially if your last name isn't Hanson.) An apostrophe "s" is possessive. There. I feel a little better now.

Naked Cowboy

I almost rear-ended someone today due to distracted driving. Nope, I wasn't texting or talking on the phone, nor was I frantically trying to dig a sippy cup out of a diaper bag and bend my arm into an unnatural backward position to hand it to a fussy toddler in the backseat. (OK, I am way past the toddler/sippy cup stage, but I do think that scenario is about as distracted as driving can get---much worse than talking on a cell phone.)
I was distracted because I had just heard on the radio that the Naked Cowboy is going to run for President. The radio talk show hosts discussing this story then suggested that the Naked Cowboy would be great on Dancing with the Stars. I think that's brilliant.
As you can see, I have met the Naked Cowboy, as has my horrified mother-in-law, who was quite a good sport about the whole jarring experience. And then today I heard this radio discussion, and it was just too much. My mind was swirling with memories of our New York City Naked Cowboy sighting; I was imagining him on Dancing with the Stars (what would he wear???); I was trying to figure out if he has a PR person who convinced him to run for office; I was so deep in thought about the Naked Cowboy that I barely, barely avoided a little car accident. I think I need to just focus on my driving, and the Naked Cowboy needs to focus on something other than a political career. Like dancing.