Speaking of sailing ships . . .

[jlh]

Okay, I just saw this ebay ad. A family is at the seaside and as they are leaving, a little boy has to leave his toy boat behind. It gets tossed out to sea and finally goes down to the bottom of the ocean. Cut to a fishing trawler opening up a big net of fish that spill down onto the deck. Out with the fist comes the toy boat, which one of the sailors (an Asian man, I suppose to say to us that the boat went a long way) picks up curiously. Cut to a screen shot of the boat being sold on ebay, and then a reverse shot of a man in his mid thirties staring at the boat in disbelief. Behind him on the mantle, a picture of the little boy from the beginning of the ad with his toy boat. Now, is this heartwarming or really eerie?

Speaking of things that sound nice but are actually weird, I love that the latest John Mayer song is essentially, "Men, stop fucking up your little girls, because then I get a boatload of batshit crazy girlfriends."

Speaking of batshit crazy, Martha is using clip art to make silhouettes of pilgrims and indian chiefs and turkeys and is sticking them on scalloped table cloths made of brown craft paper for the children's Thanksgiving table, and then gave them a centerpiece with oranges that I'm sure will be used as missiles before the meal is over.

Speaking of doing things around the house, my to-do list this weekend:

• Finish my project
  
• Work out my holiday card list
  
• Clean the bathroom and kitchen floors
  
• Dust the living room
  
• Swiffer the living room floor
  
• Wash the delicates—can't as the washers are broken, alas!
  
• Put my new CDs on my ipod—in progress