Fellow Blogspot Bloggers

I like to surf Blogspot to see what everyone has to offer. It's cool because there are so many different "flavors" of bloggers out there. There are the "niche" bloggers who are generally experts in their fields, there are "family" bloggers who basically use their blog as a way to make sure that no family member misses a new pic or a funny story, then there are bloggers (like myself) who are "random" bloggers. We random bloggers blog about whatever catches our fancy :-). Sharpodue (he's on my blog link list) is a random blogger... and I've discovered a new one; her site is Jay's corner.

Jay is from India - but is very into popular American movies. I clicked on her site and was first intrigued by the picture, a black and white photo with blue eyes -- too cool (I'm into eyes). Then I read the first movie review on her page, "Mars Attacks" (I loved that movie, thought it was HILARIOUS!!). She does a really great job reviewing movies, although if you haven't seen the movie yet -- there may be some spoilers.

At any rate, I know that we all deserve to have a spotlight shown on our efforts now and again -- and I'm "paying it forward", so to speak :-).

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EXTRA Virgin?

So, I buy olive oil. All of us, health conscious or not, have heard the benefits of olive oil touted by enough sources that we all have a bottle at home - whether we use it or not.

AND -- (or so I've read) if you want to have the best olive oil experience possible, you want to get the EXTRA virgin kind.

What I want to know is, what makes the olives 'extra' virgin? I mean, if a virgin olive is one that's never 'been with' another olive; what's an extra virgin, one that's never kissed another olive? Or maybe one that's never even crossed vines?

Maybe there's an entirely separate vineyard for the 'extra' virgins. You know, like an olive monastery. Maybe the little olive nuns have to swear a vow of chastity to the mother branch?

If so, then how do we keep getting new olives? I ask only because at the store the only choice for olive oil seems to be either the virgin or 'extra' virgin variety. MAYBE the little hussy olives that procreate are the ones we eat on salads?

(...this train of thought is just a glimpse of what's going on inside my brain when I'm not talking.)

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Sex Ed?

So obviously my 5yo has only gotten the minimum in sex education... or as he would recognize it, "Where babies come from".

He's seen pregnant women, so he knows that babies are inside the mommy's tummmy. He's seen Animal Planet, so he knows that babies come out of mommy's "bottoms".

The other day I was listening to the boys talking to each other, and somehow the subject of babies came up. I heard A tell S that "Mommies eat babies, then God fixes them and they come out of the mommy's bottom". Wow. Yeah.

Sometimes kids are better than stand-up comics.

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