Real-life Precious Moments doll: 100% cute, 100% pure evil.

This post is sponsored by Mason Jennings and Lemon Grove Avenue. Because if M. Jennings and his bababas about the sea and the tree and the breeze and coming home do not get you into summertime mode, you do not believe in the spirit of summer.

More adventures from this summer:

1. Three days in Northern Wisconsin with 8 children aged somewhere between 2 and 13 plus my mother and her sisters.
2. On said adventure, in a fit of pure, 2 year old fury, my nephew bit me. The crime? Looking at him. But, come on. How could you not?
3. Northern Wisconsin is beautiful. Who knew? Nobody told me about this. It's like that time I went to Virginia and there were mountains. WTF.
   
4. New pet peeve: People who are afraid of seaweed. It's like being afraid of trees.
   
5. This post is also sponsored by gas prices. My mother broke her right foot and all of her time in the passenger seat is giving her way too much time to read aloud any sign that we pass on any highway. "$2.42...wow!" "Route 32" "TGI Friday's." At what age does this start? Now accepting applications for the job of hitting me when I start to do this.
   

This summer has a sepia-toned loving

New low. One post in the month of May. Shiiiiiit.
My summertime resolution (the lesser known resolutions) is to give the blog some more love. I've now written it down, so I should start to care more, or at least feel extra-badly when I fail. Probably. I am so far unemployed for the summer beyond volunteer gigs, helping my parents move and teaching myself to utilize the rating column on iTunes. This summer is going to be ALLtime. It's looking like a lot of free time and not a lot of cashmoney. Mr. Sutliff taught me that was called a "tradeoff" in 9th grade. I'm livin' the dream, Mr. S!

In my first 2 weeks of summer I have:
1. Been accepted to 3 colleges away from GirlLand
2. Had one application sent back due to "deadlines". Clearly Macalester never met the Totzkes.
3. Made 2 important Savers purchases: a) Orange cashmere J.Crew sweater ($7) b) Polaroid camera ($6)
4. Failed at finding film for said Polaroid camera.
5. Refused to accept that Polaroid film doesn't exist anymore.

Stay tuned! More futile battles and summertime misadventures to come!