Just can't name this one

In the past month, I've heard of a new phenomenon that I am just not on board with - Placentophagy.

"Placentophagy is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth." Oh and if you aren't brave enough to take a big bite of it, you can get it made into yummy capsules too!

Besides not understanding why a person would want to eat part of a bloody sac that came out of their hooha, I also do not understand how these things randomly become sudden cultural trends.
January Jones did it when she had her baby a few months ago. (But she also hasn't revealed the identity of her baby daddy is so I'm not taking tips on how to be normal from her right now). Now I'm reading about it on all kinds of pregnant people's blogs.

Where did this come from? People have been doing pretty well for the past few hundred decades without eating their own organs. Bill Gates has made billions. Steve Jobs changed technology as we know it. Beyonce Runs the World (Girls). All without their mothers or themselves having to eat placentas. Why is this suddenly a hip thing to do? Why do we as humans always feel the need to fix things that aren't broken, all in the name of being "unique" or "holistic"?

Am I crazy for not wanting to be part of this? Have any of you out there eaten your placenta? Does it go well with crackers? J/K, I'm just so confused!

If you are really intrigued, search the Internet for more info. There's a lot of graphic info and pictures out there, but I just can't be the one to bring those mental images into your life.

* In the interest of not posting a placenta as my main picture, I put this cute lil' puppy pic up instead. Enjoy :)

Kettle One - Me Zero

Yesterday I bought a Kettleball.

Today I almost fell of off the toilet at work because my thighs are so sore I cannot actively engage them.

I bought the Kettleball to try something new and have a form of cardio that didn't involve repetitive grinding of my hip bones at the gym.

Thank HEAVENS that, after reading online that a mere 20 minutes could burn 300 calories, I only attempted 5 minutes. Because I am in some serious pain today.

At least the pain lets me know that it's working!...Or that I'm doing it completely wrong!

Anyone out there have any good Kettleball workouts to suggest? Once I can stand up straight again I'm hopping back on the Kettle Horse! Yeehaw!

Creeper Alert

While trying to avoid possible collision, my friend managed to take this picture of a car next to him.

It took me a while to decode this, because I thought the one was an "L", but to clarify, that says "BBY RU 18"

That is the creepiest thing I've ever seen anyone publicly display on their car. Can you imagine driving up to meet a girl's parents for the first time in a car with THAT on your license plate?

The good news is that he at least saved himself the trouble of having to go door to door telling his neighbors that he's a registered sex offender. So, there's that...

PB Bounty

I hope everyone had a happy Easter! Do you know what Easter means to me? REESE'S Peanut Butter EGGS!!!!!

What really makes this candy a shining star, which I talked about at length with the cashier at Rite Aid yesterday, is the perfect ratio of Peanut Butter to Chocolate.

Sure, I love a traditional Reese's. But when the peanut butter is that good, I don't want large layers of chocolate thwarting my path to peanut butter ecstacy. The eggs have it all right.

Less chocolate coating, larger surface area, and 90:10 peanut butter to chocolate ratio. It doesn't get much better than that.

It's a saving grace these things aren't available year round. I had my one yearly allowance of PB Egg yesterday and it was simply glorious!

Ice Cream Sundays - Peach Cobbler

Happy Easter Ice Cream Sunday! Today's ice cream is Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler. It won't get you high like Willie, but it will give your taste buds a nice lil' buzz.

I know it's only Spring, but with this ice cream available it already feels like Summer. To me, Peach Cobbler just screams summers at the beach. That is, of course, unless you plan on wearing a bathing suit this summer...at the beach or anywhere else.

The little pieces of peach in the peach ice cream almost taste like candy they are so sweet. And the hints of cinnamon throughout are really warm and cozy. As with some other flavors, I don't think that the shortbread chunks taste like anything, but that's ok because the flavors from the peach make up for it...and chunks are just plain fun.

Get a pint and call it an early Summer!

Summary:

Flavors Tried - 21

Pounds Gained - 2ish :(

Favorite Flavor - Mint Chocolate Cookie

Hallway to Hell

This is my new and improved hallway. After a full week of painting, cursing, spilling, and bloody knuckles, I erased one more piece of evidence that our entire house was once a giant multitude of shades of green.

And even though I love the color, and I LOVE the runner I got from OneKingsLane.com, now it kind of looks like an asylum up in here.

That's the funny thing about owning a house. You do one thing, only to realize that you need 10 more hours in a day and 10,000 more dollars in a paycheck to make it look right.

But then reality hits and you realize you are penniless and absolutely exhausted.

And that you've become pseudo-European and taken to eating at 9pm every night because you spent your whole evening shoveling dirt or splattering pant on the ceiling/floor/your face.

Currently accepting donations or recommendations for good artwork on the cheap! That hallway needs some color!