I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why

Thoughts for today:

I challenge you to find better 8 a.m. grocery store music than Barry White. Specifically "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe."

Dear peanut-butter- and caramel-filled Hershey's Kisses: You make me proud to be a Pennsylvanian. (I've lived here 5 years now. Am I a Pennsylvanian? Maybe a Philadelphian? This is bouncing around in my head as its own post. We'll see I ever get around to it.)

To JDS, aka Mr. Isoglossia - no, I haven't joined Twitter. Am resisting that and Facebook, thinking that they would become black holes for my scant spare time.

Cat hair is threatening to take over our house. Oh, did I mention that we took in a fourth cat? [Orange] Pekoe, formerly known as Sherbet, Mr. Sherbs, or Peaches and Sherb. He had been living in a box on our front porch. We resisted taking him in: He's neutered, see, so we thought he belonged to somebody. But then it got really cold, so we let him stay in our entryway for a few days. Now that he's been inside (for more than a month), he has shown absolutely no interest in going back out. He's the sweetest thing ever. So if any of you would like a cat, we have a couple to spare.

I have been able to search through flickr for my job for the last two days. Trying to find a good image of Cloud Gate to use for the Sept. 2008 cover of our journal. There are lots of great images, but it needs to work with our vertical format and have people in it, preferably people of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Lorilea, I may be in touch.

Comments

[Niki]

I think I lived on a diet of little else but those caramel kisses when I was pregnant with Noah. YUM.
If you want to be a Philadelphian you can be one. Though I suspect wanting to be one probably really disqualifies you since I find real Philadelphians to do little else but complain about Philadelphia.

[lori]

Hee! I almost didn't even process that my name was in your post. I was getting ready to comment on how wonderfully kind-hearted you are to take in Pekoe. Wish I had the nerve to add to my brood. But the hair, yes, is one reason I balk!

Oh, and you're totally, completely correct about Twitter and Facebook. And practically any other internet creation out there. Time sucks. Terrible time sucks. I've forgotten what I used to do with my free time.

Certainly let me know if you see a photo that interests you. I'm honored to be considered.

[HPR]

You can't top Barry White, but this one is a good candidate for that early morning snack run. The cover says it all.

[Lori]

I have two vertical shots of Cloud Gate, both with people in them, but they're not the best I've seen.

ALSO: I've been meaning to tell you that I think I saw HPR in Capogiro a couple weeks ago. I snapped an iPhone photo of him, but then I downloaded it to my computer -- the one without the easy access to e-mail -- and erased it from the phone before I could add your e-mail address to my iPhone address book. One of these days, I will send it to you for confirmation. :-)