Friday Fetishes

Stuff I've been obsessed with this week:

My kids' art journals

Like I mentioned in a previous post, my kids now have designated notebooks to color and paste things in. They've been sitting down every afternoon to create stuff, and it's amazing to see what's on their minds each day or where the process takes them. My one and a half year old son, who did the sticker art above, flips through the sticker book slowly then shouts "icka!" when he spots a sticker he wants. What it is about the seemingly random ones on these pages that appealed to him in the moment I'll never know. And I think that's fascinating. I understand the animals; he LOVES animals. If an animal comes on tv he has to excitedly run to someone for a hug because he gets so overcome with emotion. But the cucumber and tomato? He hates both. The abstract circle? The robot girl? The floating head?

Mindy Kaling's book 

Though not as laugh-out-loud funny as I imagined it would be, it's still pretty interesting. One chapter in particular is pretty inspiring: it explains how she wasn't making it in other people's theater productions, so she and her friend wrote a nonsense play about roommates Matt Damon and Ben Affleck before they were famous, and the play was an unexpected success, winning awards and basically launching her career. I'm getting through the book quickly, so that says something, I guess. I don't know, I've been really critically and picky about books lately.

And this.

Need I say more? No, but I must, though. I would enjoy this show twofold if Piper and Alex weren't in it. Their relationship is not believable. They don't mesh well together. Their "attraction" feels forced. I literally cringe and turn away when they come on. Their scenes are treated as commercial breaks in my house. Hubby gets up for another beer; I get up for some Twinkies. Just kidding, I check my phone and make the hubby bring me the Twinkies. I do save my peeing for their scenes, though. I'm, like, six months pregnant, so that's how it is. The writers should just release Piper and Alex from jail and get on with the other characters' lives.