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You’re Amazing: National Hot Toddy Day!

I know I’ve been quiet on the blog front, but I felt compelled to overcome my blothargy (I figure that’s what you get when you combine blog and lethargy) because Coujo just informed me that today, January 11, is National Hot Toddy Day.

Otherwise known as warm whiskey deliciousness day.
It’s particularly terrific before bed and especially if your feeling a little sick. Some people swear by them to get over colds and flus.

(Photo from Jane Spice.)

My recipe (Notice there are no specific amounts. I’m trusting you to be a reasonable person who has a general feeling for tasting and mixing amounts.):

Honey in the bottom of a mug
Pour hot water into the mug about 2/3 full
Add a decaf black tea bag of your choice
Let steep for a few minutes
Add lemon juice
Add whiskey
Add a few whole clove pieces (if you don’t want to accidentally drink them, stick them into a slice of lemon and let that float in your toddy)

*If you do an image search you will see a lot of toddies featuring cinnamon sticks. Use at your own discretion.
*Also, you don’t have to add the tea, you can just use hot water. I prefer tea-flavored water.
*It should be noted that while whiskey (Jameson) is the superior choice, you can generally use any of the darker spirits (excluding beer, obviously).

However you make one or wherever you find one, Happy National Hot Toddy Day!

And Happy Wednesday.

Action Figure Nativities.
(via Neatorama)

I’m glad to see that there was a dinosaur representing at the birth of Christ and that Riker still married Troi even though the child wasn’t his.

And from Love Actually, one of my favorite exchanges:

Karen: So what’s this big news, then?
Daisy: [excited] We’ve been given our parts in the nativity play. And I’m the lobster.
Karen: The lobster?
Daisy: Yeah!
Karen: In the nativity play?
Daisy: [beaming] Yeah, *first* lobster.
Karen: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
Daisy: Duh.

35 Reasons Dogs Hate the Holidays

(via Coujo:Neatorama:Buzzfeed)

If you have to be at work today, you might as well entertain yourself with a little holiday cheer in the form of dressing up a dog.

There’s 32 more pictures of dogs who look ridiculous and a little bit sad because they know it.

Happy Friday!

(via Mike:Sheldon)

It was a sad day when the Triceratops accidentally mutated into a Rhinoceros (though it took a while for the horns to align in the center).

This is a resting and/or depressed rhino DiploDouglas and I saw at the Phoenix Zoo.
Mike sent me the e-postcard a couple days beforehand, so I immediately thought of the Triceratops. Striking similarities to be sure, but not at all how the evolution thing happened.

Did You Know Santa Clause Is Really A Goat?

Here is the second installment of the Santa stories written by twin 10-year-old girls.

While there are no dinosaurs in this one (truly disappointing), this 10-year-old has worked in some rhymes and some sheep that look like fart x’s when they fly.

And polar bears who wrap gifts because penguins don’t have thumbs (and polar bears do?)

And, the final touch of brilliance -
the 3D pop-up flying x-farting sheep.

A truly inspired effort, despite the lack of dinosaurs and the polar bears with thumbs.

Click through the title to read the whole thing (it’s not that long).

Happy Wednesday (Doesn’t it feel like Friday though?)!

Holiday in the Face

Today’s one of those days that would have felt better left in bed.

But since I have to sit in my cubicle, I feel marginally better and slightly more entertained while watching people get hit in the face with holiday food items like egg nog (check out the Kevin video), fruit cake, the jello has a really good spring to it, the lo mein is kind of lame, but the sausage is pretty serious.
I suggest you save the sausage for last.

The individual people and food are better than the teaser video, but to get to watch all the other ones, here’s this:

Happy Tuesday.

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If Santa was a T-Rex

(via Coujones:Fat Cyclist)

It’s story by a 10-year-old girl, Carrie Nelson.

While I appreciate the premise and the surprise twist at the end, and while I know that I’m nit-picking the creative liberties of a 10-year-old, I disagree that a T-Rex Santa wouldn’t know what to give as gifts. I think he would give dinosaurs to everyone. I think most people would be happy.

This is a great sad T-Rex Santa though:

Happy Monday!

Click through the photo for a new Memoryhouse track.

Happy Friday!

You’re Amazing But… How Did I Not Know About You?

Apparently there is an annual even called Draw A Dinosaur Day.
It’s January 30. Every year.
How did I not know about this?
Not that I’m that great at drawing, but I am good at looking at dinosaur drawings.

What is up, indeed.

And!
If you want more children’s drawings of dinosaurs and a story to go with it, here’s a book mostly written and illustrated by a pre-school class in Massachusetts to celebrate October as International Dinosaur Month.
I didn’t know that there was an International Dinosaur Month! I’ve missed so many months!

Got a Girl Crush project: Dumped!

Great pictures of people getting things dumped on them. Food and otherwise.

Here is one of those life lessons that would probably be good to drill into your brain before it actually happens, so if you’re ever in the situation you do it:
If someone is dumping something on your head, close your mouth.

It seems that the general instinct is to open one’s mouth in reaction.
Fortunately tar+feathers guy and liquid soap girl knew enough to keep their mouths closed.

Click through to see the series of 13 dumpings. The prints may or may not still be available for purchase. You can buy a book of prints here.