Two small things that leave me feeling oddly ill-equipped for momhood:

1. Hank in mismatched socks.
2. Running out of toilet paper, putting a tissue box next to the toilet, then running out of tissues.

Over at Mighty Junior, Melissa is building a reference guide to the best gifts for kids of all ages. She started, of course, with the One Year Old Gift Guide. So if you have any tiny friends with birthdays coming up, you’ll know where to find the perfect gift. Including the least annoying bath toys I’ve seen.

Rae: Have you seen that photo of the guy with the tattoo of the cat’s butt hole where his belly button is?
Me: What? No! is that a real thing?
Rae: Oh yes. Yes it is.
Me: He didn’t give a fuck about tomorrow, man.
Rae: Yeah. He wasn’t really thinking about later that afternoon.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Anna Jane Grossman interviewed a bunch of bloggers, including me, for an article called “Your Blog Can Be Group Therapy.” Have a look.

Hello! I have three quick questions for you regarding which sites you’d most enjoy reading if I were to launch more sites. Would you like to help me decide? If so, thank you. That’s very nice of you, don’t you think?

Update: Whoa! That was fast. Thanks so much for your help, you helpful crew, I got all the responses the survey thing allows, re-upped for more, and then you filled the new quota too. For those of you feeling stifled, I’ll ask some more detailed questions in the coming weeks. What I found out, if you’re curious, is that you guys want it all, baby. Except men’s fashion. Seriously, fuck men’s fashion.