Soozcat's magic teapot

OK, I've wanted to share the magic teapot with you for a while now. Carrie saw this in person a few days ago, so she can vouch for the fact that there are no movie-magic tricks involved. My teapot is really magic.

Behold!


I love it.

Out and about

Got out of the house with Miss V today. We drove out to one of the local beaches (which, in 72-degree weather, was packed) and enjoyed the sun for a while. Unfortunately we didn't give ourselves a lot of time, as she had a birthday party to attend this evening, but it was still nice to get out.

I realized something today -- well, not so much realized it, but had it more strongly impressed upon my brain. I've picked up some bad habits in the last few years. In our last home, I was practically a recluse; there were days when the only time I went outside was to get the mail. Some of that behavior has continued here, where on occasion I've holed up for no good reason. That has to stop! Feh. I may be a house fairy, but I'm not tethered to the washing machine. There are so many things to see and do around here, I've got transportation, and Miss V will only be a child for a year or two more (already she's bristling at being called "kid" and "little girl," so I can see the writing on the wall). It's time to explore and discover and otherwise join the land of the living.

Besides, what fairy in her right mind would skip the chance to spend time in the Arboretum?

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time

T'S definitely spring here, despite a few attempts by Mother Nature to make it winter again -- we had a rather spectacular, heavy late snowfall that covered everything in sight and broke the branches off several flowering plum and cherry trees. I went past a few absolutely magnificent plums the other day, some of their main branches damaged, possibly beyond repair.

Miss V has been visiting family in another state, since she's had time off school for spring break all this week. Though I've been able to get quite a few errands run and I've had a lot more freedom to goof off this week, I've also really missed her. I think we're both looking forward to seeing her again.

CM and Miss V are, I think, both addicted to The Sims 2, although they have very different playing styles. Miss V has more fun coming up with clothing for her Sims and making them do things, but isn't particularly attentive to their needs, so they have accidents on the floor, faint and go crazy from lack of sleep, and (in one traumatic case) die of hunger. CM, on the other hand, has been busy with his Casanova Sim who tries to seduce every female Sim he meets. His comment: "Because I can." *eyeroll*