Tuesday, January 6, 2009

running buddy

i think i may have found a running buddy. my coworker jill, who designed my frakking-fantastic svae-the-dates, is willing to go running after work. we'll start with the campus loop and go from there.


i hate running, and so does jill, and we both are endurance-minded trainers. her legs are noticably shorter than mine, but i think it will work well. 

bert the farting hippo

carol, grandma and i are really big NCIS addicts. it started with reruns on USA network. now that mimi has a dvr, there is no end in sight.


in the show, one of the characters has a stuffed hippo named bert that farts when you hug it. i really wanted to get one for carol for christmas, but after scouring the internet, i came up empty. some guy in the UK makes them and sells them for $100, but that seemed excessive. thank god for youtube



here we have a diy tutorial that's easy enough to understand. the trick is finding the perfect hippo. mine came from one of the many trips eamon and i have made to ikea over the past month. i smuggled it home to mass, and after two surgeries, bert is farting like a fiend. 

needless to say, she loved it, and it was my favorite christmas gift to give.