I was trying to tell 'dul that one should not scratch one's itches...

In my experience, you scratch an itch, and three more develop. When you've dealt with all of them, the first one comes back with a vengeance.

There's even a name for that first one coming back, it's so common!

Try to avoid the 'itch-scratch cycle'
The itch-scratch cycle is where scratching causes more itching - which causes more scratching - which causes more itching - etc. So, if you scratch, it may make the itch worse. So, apart from any other treatment, try not to scratch if at all possible. Keep your nails cut short. Consider wearing cotton gloves at night to stop scratching in your sleep.

Thank you, Google!

It's hard, but the only way to actually get rid of an itch is to think about something else and ignore the itch completely. If that really doesn't work, you have to treat the itch properly (with medicine or lotion or whatever) and *then* ignore it.

And not type up an entry on itching, because now I'm itching all over. Ow.

More food signs...

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My mom and I watched Monk this year instead of the Twilight Zone...

Yeah. It was a weird experience for me, and I didn't even skip out at 7:30 to hang out at the boat and see the fireworks (it was too cloudy, and I was too lazy).

And then we spent some time listing all the episodes we could remember, and I promised my mom I'd look them up. Jenn, call her, send her this link, would you? Thanks. I'd email her, but I worry she'd never check it, and I can't exactly call her....

( The ones I missed )

I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that we got so man of them. As of this moment, there have been 61 episodes, so take that, Mommy! (She was annoyed that her count came to something like 53 (I listed some I forgot we already had, I suppose), and insisted that there was no way this was possible.

Season 1: 13 episodes
Season 2: 15 episodes
Season 3: 15 episodes
Season 4: 16 episodes

Ooooh...

Of course, you've already seen it, but it's a behind-the-scenes look at "Mosquito".

Weirdly, I now want to watch some other sci-fi show....

Just found this hidden in my bookmarks...

Article on a six year old superhero.

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Another old bookmark...

An editorial on children and food and ads, from alternet.

Comments, as always, are interesting to read in alternet articles.

*does a little dance*

It is now officially possible for me to put Ana in a sling on my back, the baby on my front, and go from Jenn's house, three blocks to the store, and back without dying of exhaustion. I wouldn't want to do this for very long, but ten or fifteen minutes won't kill me.

The store being right near the bus stop, this is important news - should we have an unexpected nap incident on the way home from the museum, all is not necessarily lost - I don't have to carry Ana so my arms fall off or else wake her up.

She's still small, so I should be able to do this for a while yet. I hope. At least long enough for her to re-outgrow this whole "nap" thing, a few months, I believe.