1. Ikea toddler bed mattresses are not made to accommodate the frames of plus-sized grown ups. Grown ups who insist on sleeping on said mattresses in hopes of convincing their four year old to sleep in her own bed will not wake up all at once. They will wake up head and torso first, then one tingly limb at a time. The back pain will come later.
2. When a female echinda is ready to mate, males follow her around, single file. They may follow her for up to six weeks. Then she picks the one with which she will mate and all the others are SOL. It's like Flava of Love. But with monotremes.
3. Lost in Space is worse than you remember. Which stands to reason, really. I mean, with the number of sci-fi geeks out there, willing to glom onto and obsess about any sort of future that involves jumpsuits, if they aren't holding LiS-cons, there has to be a reason. And there is. Ben, however, looooves it. I did get a great line from there. The robot suddenly called out "WARNING! Attitude stabilizer cells losing power! WARNING WARNING!" When the kids are pushing my buttons? That's what they should hear.
4. The male rhea mates with up to 12 females. They all lay their eggs in a nest he has built. Every other day, for as long as 10 days, each female lays one egg. Once the male starts sitting on them, the females just lay more eggs close by. The male scoops them into the nest with a wing or with his beak. Then the females go off in search of more hot bird-on-bird action. The male stays, sitting on as many as 60 eggs. When the babies hatch, he cares for them and protects them. Rheas are hot.
5. If you are so inclined, you can send a squid postcard. It will help if you can read Japanese.
6. tonight: MAKEOVERS!!! For real this time.
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That squid postcard makes me want to vomit on my keyboard.
If there are no makeovers tonight, I will be DEVASTATED.
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