What My Brain Is Really Like

So today I sort of wondered aimlessly around the internet.

When I wasn't reading "Choo Choo!" and "The Little Engine That Could" for what must be the 8000th time in 3 days. Hugmonkey has apparently decided to make up for 2 years of little interest in books by becoming addicted this week.  And then I was doing dishes. And laundry. And forcing Ironflower to read to me. And encouraging Lovebug to not grip his pencil like a hammer. Oh, and there was that period where I ate too many pretzel rods.

I say all that just to prove that I did not spend all day on my pretty new laptop. It just feels like it.

Anyway, I discovered this:

Life in the suburbs would be so much more fun if I had a sassy gay friend with me at the grocery store.

I was going to focus after watching every single one of those videos, I swear I was. But then I remembered that George R.R. Martin was supposed to make an announcement today about the 5th book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Dance With Dragons. (I'm not usually a big fantasy person, but this series? It's a new obsession. Like better than Lord of the Rings, more compelling than my beloved Harry Potter. Just great. Many thanks to my cousin the artist for recommending it.) But it turns out the poor guy has been hospitalized (he's better, thank goodness) so announcements have been postponed. But there was this:

You're going to at least watch the series now, aren't you?

I also discovered that you can search for houses for sale on Google maps, and you can scroll around the whole country looking at houses for sale. You know, if you missed House Hunters yesterday or something.

It all really started with looking up weather sites, because News12 New Jersey's description of "light" snow didn't match what I saw out my window. I mean, I'm sure that if News 12 Siberia described our weather today as light, its viewers would have nodded sagely. But to me, six inches of snow in that many hours is definitely in the medium category.

Note to self: See if Google Maps also shows houses for sale in Siberia. Because that would be awesome.

Then I recalled my resolution to write every day and decided that I was most in the mood to blog. Except that I didn't have a topic. So I went all social media. Instead of finding a topic, though, I became obsessed with figuring out why Backpackingdad was yelling at everyone on Twitter. And then I remembered to check up on the funny and inspiring Jennandtonica (yeah, I clicked on her because of her name at first. I was all like, 'Bitch stole my name! That I wasn't smart enough to create in the first place!' But her blogs and tweets about being a mom to triplet preemies. . .wow.) So the babies reminded me that I'm going to a baby shower for one of my dearest and most long-term friends (but not oldest, just because we're turning 40 this year does NOT mean that we're old, thanks) and that I should check on her baby registry.

The next thing I remember, Hot Guy told me that it was dinner time.