Stamford Hates Leaves
I get it, leaf-collecting truck, you are backing up!!! And have been doing so for the last 10 minutes! But guess what! My baby is sleeping!!! OK, there. I just had to get that out. (Oh, and now they are using a LEAF BLOWER to get what the BEEPING TRUCK missed. Right outside my baby's window.) I mean, I'm glad they are taking the leaves out of the road, because the leaves cause the cars speeding up and down my residential road to careen dangerously close me as they roar around the leaf piles. Oh, it is quite a symphony of machines outside the window right now. Thank God for "Ocean Waves" on repeat on the baby's CD player. Aaaaand now the leaf tru

Thankful For... Stamford Edition
I am thankful for...--the lactation consultants at Stamford Hospital, and the mother's group they run on Wednesdays and Fridays--the Stamford Police, who I think do a really good job, even if I mostly just see them directing traffic around annoying construction sites--Vinny's Backyard BBQ, for being so baby-friendly, yet always having plenty of wine and thin crust pizza--Stamford Museum and Nature Center for being free on Wednesdays, and for having such cool exhibits--Bellini's awesome, if pricy, baby furniture--the baby section of Bed Bath and Beyond--Beldotti's Bakery and DiMare Pastry Shop, for mak

On Spam and Eggplant
Oh my god. The baby distracted me for a second, and rather than REJECT 28 spam comments, I PUBLISHED them. I hate myself, but this gives me a chance to share with you a really funny piece of spam I got a long time ago and saved because it was just too funny to trash. I blogged about eggplant parm, and someone left this comment:ooo... i am an eggplant superfan! sigh. i want the spicy eggplant sooooo badly right now. with rice.Here I bought a sauce pack so as to skip all the seasonings! and i will try this friday after work. (address of product etc.)I like the wistfulness of the opening line, and the love this spammer clearly feel

Not So Smart Car
Last night around 5:30, we passed through a quiet four way stop, and my husband said, "Whoa!" It was dark, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw a car passing behind us. Me: "What, did that car almost hit us?" Husband: "No, his lights weren't on!" Ironically, it was a little blue Smart

High Ridge Starbucks Hideousness?
Did the High Ridge Starbucks purposefully change their design to this cold, open space, or were they just preparing for a square dance tonight? I don't know, because I haven't been there in a while. I'm hoping it's just temporary. You know, for the rave they're hosting tonight, so they had to move all the chairs out. Serious