The snail commentary cracked me right up. Thanks for brightening my day!

Wish I could join you tonight. I'd bring my own shell....

EW! Gross! Thank you for reminding me about a positive effect of living in a cold climate: 4 months of snow and ice keep my encounters with giant, slimy, scary reminders of nature to a minimum. Ugh! I've asked myself the same question about many a food. For example, milk. Who decided to give that cow's udder a good ol' sqeeze and then decide it was drinkable? I'm not sure if our cro-magnon ancestors were incredibly brave, or staggeringly stupid.

sqeeze = squeeze. I can spell, really! Just can't type worth a damn.

I had to make those suckers and even eat one to pass French class. One of the MOST disgusting things, I tell ya. Glad my contribution was cream puffs, yummy.

I wish I could go to Stitch 'n' Bitch with you! But, alas, I am in Ohio...where I don't think slugs live because it is so damn cold, even in May! But I'd brave the slugs and snails to hang out with Crazy Aunt Purl anytime!

AAAAAHHHHHH! I just watched the Lost finale (thank you, my friend TiVo)-- as soon as the French woman said they were whispering about "the boy", I thought "OH MY GOD! It's Walt, not the baby!!"

I could hardly still. Shushing is totally allowed when the show is that compelling.

First we must discuss the imprtant things. I too watched LOST. I have these questions

1) Gas - where did that get GAS and a BOAT!

2) What was that flying around the "Others" - flies becasue they are so dirty or snow??

3) Is Sawyer OK? Does he need me to tend to his wounds?

So, have you ever stepped on one of those things in the dark? So gross, it makes me shudder.

The other day was in a yarn shop and saw a particularly lovely skein. Without even realizing what I was doing, I brought it to my face, took a whiff, then rubbed my cheek with it. I was a bit moritified at what I did, and without looking up to see if the owner saw me, I quickly replaced the yarn. However, later when reflecing on what happened, I decided yarn is a very sensorial thing. We should really only be embarrased if we try to taste it.

How lucky you are to have found a great SnB. Have fun tonight.

Your recap of last night's LOST was right on the nose (Take me now, Sayid!), but you didn't mention the really lame part. It was when Sawyer put his shirt back on. Curse the evil day!

Yikes...I caught what Julie has.

embarrased = embarrassed.

i. hate. nature. i will fight heartily to preserve it, but i never want to actually be IN it. love the wine glass for both scale and wine, though.

People in Europe eat winkles. You know, like periwinkles? Barnacles? That's a lot of work. (But I can't understand why people eat shellfish in general -- clams, mussels, and oysters all look like well-armored snot to me.)

With her yarn addiction and hosting skills, the next thing she's likely to do is have people over for wine and YARN TASTING. Imagine that, wine and no pseudo food.

Who needs chips and salsa when you have wine and yarn? *Tastey* "Yeah, the yarn is a little dry but it goes so well with this merlot! Don't you think so? No? Shut up! drink some more wine!"

*sigh* It's Pete's fault that i'm here. I've adopted you, btw. But yes, i blame Him... BLAME HIM!

Am I the only one who thinks that is the cutest snail ever?

We get lots of those slime-trail leavers here, too, and even their unshelled relatives, the slugs! Yechh! I send the shelled ones overarm to play on the street in traffic. (Wickedly rubbing hands and cackling evilly!) Oh, trust me on this, I don't pick them up without gloves on! EWWWWW! The slugs get flowerpots dropped on them.

Put out some stale beer in shallow dishes, and those guys will creep to their drunken deaths. You know, the couple of swallows left in the bottles after a party.... ;-)

Ok--here is a website that gives you too much info and facts on slugs / snails--in case you're interested....

On a positive note.......scroll towards the bottom and there are hints and info for you on barriers that you can use to keep them out. Good luck!

http://www.ghorganics.com/page13.html

Ewwwww. Ewww, ewww, ewww, ewww! Thank GOD we do not get that kind of "nature" in MN. I would just plotz. Although the mosquitos the size of small babies are not so much fun....

I use Sluggo!!!! The best bait for keeping the snails away. Just little tiny pellets, like the sprinkles on a donut. Works like a charm. I swear to you!

Snail - yuck. Comment about French as their only enemy -- tooooo freakin' hilarious!!!

LOST - WTF! Although I must say, I too thought - "it's not the baby, it's Walt" and I knew when that boat came that it would not be good. I mean, where would the show go if the raft guys got rescued? But the scary black cloud thingy - yoikes!!

Laurie - thanks for blogging every day. I think I'd have withdrawal (or is that withdrawl) ;-) if I couldn't read you every day.

I'm surprised you did not mention in your recap your undying love for the hobbit Charlie.

Mmmmm, escargots.

Laugh out loud funny. I spent Wednesday with insane sixth graders on a field trip to do stream monitoring (I ask you--WHO decided it was a good idea to set sixth graders free in a river with seven days of school left?). I went because my daughter volunteered me to chaperone. Anyway, we were out in NATURE, and it struck me that I was speaking Laurie-speak--telling Katie that nature hated us (she had hives, and we had to touch gross crayfish). So your way of speaking has graced Illinois, and now my daughter tells her friends (overheard last night on the phone) that "nature hates her".

I've heard sand is good for slugs...or bad for them...whatever...it's cuts up their little sluggy asses.... so they avoid it when possible.

Isn't the mosquito the state bird of MN?

Anne - I don't think anyone has to accurately described shellfish...well-armored snot *LOL*
Definitely NOT suitable for food.

I wish I could go to SnB tonight but my dog has no sitter. Maybe next week.

Heeeee...I've often had the same though about the artichoke. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but the first poor sucker who took the time to boil and boil and boil that sucker so that 1/4 of it was edible...must have been REALLY hungry!

Shushing is totally okay during riveting tv.

I think that the real questions is: Can I get lost on an island with only Sawyer and Sayid? Yummy!

You are made of sterner stuff than I. Had I stumbled upon Escargot-a-palooza in my backyard, I would have screamed, and then slept at a friend's until they had all been scooped into a frying pan -- by someone else's hand.

I take it you know about Television Without Pity. Their recaps of Lost are almost as fun as yours.

Does salt destroy snails in the same way it does slugs? You could always try sprinkling salt trails across your patio.

Have fun at Stitch'n'Bitch.

I've read that mint plants are a deterrent to many bugs and pests including flies and slugs. I'm picking some up from my nursery tonight because I'm sick of my guests being assaulted on the doorstep!!

Oh, a "Lost" party...what a cool idea...I LOVE that show..

how are we supposed to wait all summer for a new episode?

And I like the Korean guy...cute, cute, cute!!!!

Please let them all survive another season!

Snails do have natural enemies. In england anyway. the thrush. A bird. Think it is in the same family as an American robin. Not sure if any California birds eat snails but if they do you might want some flowers that attact snail eating birds (though birds are not keen on the 4 cats thing, hmmmm).

I'm canadian and I ate winkles when I was a kid. you needed a pin (like a sewing pin) to pick the meat out of them. It was fun. haven't had those in many many many years.

Love your blog!

Dammit! I knew I would feel bad for falling behind on LOST episodes! Nooooooooo! Oh well, I guess I'm going to have to rent it when it comes out on DVD. Doh.

As for the snail, we have them here too (slugs too) and we always say that they are 'charging the door!' LOL! I had a six inch one in my kitchen last summer. *shivers!* Drove the cat nuts!

I have missed Lost so much already that I have no clue what's going on but thanks to your great recap I am in the loop again.

I really must say that I so do miss seeing snails, my brothers and I used to be really nasty little valley kids and set out salt for the snails, hey you know, if you were having a salt rimmed margarita instead of wine then your slimey little "homebodies" would leave it alone, how cool is that?! I haven't seen not one snail since moving to the Midwest :(

Oh.My.God. The Walt-nappers. SO SCARY.

I am behind on my blogstalking too--I will catch up soon!

Ah, yes. The wonder of why Sawyer is always sweaty but the weird old "I Know What You Did Last Summer" fishman needs not only a yellow slicker but a knitted hat. And, don't you think they'd KNOW that they wouldn't find a reliable way to be rescued on the same day that they left the island?

Although, I must say, the Alias cliffhanger surprised me more...

I shushed the neighborhood kids that were screaming outside my window (and in my neighborhood that's like taking your life in your own hands).

Freaky French Folk I tell ya.

And I'm starting to think there is more than one scary monster because whatever that shadow was of that Jake and Kate saw was NOT big enough to tower over Locke (how creepy has he become?)

And how is it that the only people that seem to regularly sweat on this TROPICAL island are Locke and Hurley? Pul-lease if I were there I would be a puddle EVERY FREAKING DAY.

And (last one) was I the only one yelling at Charlie NOT to take a Virgin Mary statue? And then yelled "Charlie, NO!" when I saw it in his pack later?

Have lots o fun at Stitch'n'Bitch

I don't watch LOST. I hate to admit it but I'm an American Idol freak ( Ya, Carrie won!! ). You make me want to take pictures of weird stuff ( i.e. snails ) but my hubby gives me a funny look when I do.....he he he

Do you ever go to the Burbank/Toluca Lake SnB? I went last night for the first time. I hope to go often...maybe I'll see you there one time :)

well I think ya' know starvation was probably the key factor in ye olde frenchy being all "come here let me munch you meeeeester snail" that being said? Yeah, escargot? HELLA GOOD, seriously God is delivering tasty pupus to your door, go partake!

LOST, LOST, LOST!!!!! I can't get enough of the show. I know why the took the kid...he has the "vision" the "third eye", you know, he predicts things. The others need him for their evil games...and what is with Locke? He was in a wheelchair, now he is walking around? WTF....just didn't get that part. Sayid is just too hot for words. What is that silly girl thinking???? And how about the Virgin Mary statue...I knew he would take it. Anyway, this is my first post to your blog and I must say you entertain me daily! Thanks a million!!!

What is WITH the super-giant wildlife in your backyard? Right now, I am just super glad that I do not live in California, for I would never venture on to the patio after dark. Ew.

You are making me feel SO out of touch with the US with all your teevee talk. We get a select few shows here, but way behind schedule. I do have the priviledge of several cable tv shows (like Six Feet Under) without paying extra for an HBO-like channel, though.

And, the best I can come up with for the snail thing is that they had hunted everything else in the area to near-extinction and were starving when a heavy rain came. Or, maybe the storm drowned all the local wildlife, except the snails. Desperation breeds creativity, right?

Frankly, I'm a little weirded out by the wildlife at large on my patio, too. As long as they aren't out there plotting my death, though, I think I'm OK.

OHHHH~!!!!! I forgot to say how much I hate the Charlie hobbit character. He annoys me more than anyone EVER. Like Sayid should ever let him have a gun, please!

Ah, the French. See you tonight!

We get lots of slugs (apparently they like hostas), and my kids love to salt them and watch them curl up.

We also discovered that a few jar lids with a little beer in them are a great deterrent to our slimey friends.

Have fun at the SnB. I'm currently looking for one here in St. Louis.

thanks for the lost recap. i totally missed it and am so not able to program my vcr (sad, i know)....but am hopeful for summer reruns...i mean a summer without sawyer, jin and sayid?? mmm.....sayid. and what the hell?! on a tropical island you would think they should be walkin' around practically naked.

plus, i don't know about the beer for slugs and snails. i had a friend try that and she swears all they did was party up and head home at dawn, leaving little drunken staggering (slithering?) trails of slime.

have fun at the SnB...wish we had a cool one here in portland....sigh. (you actually have to sign up and get 'permission' to join/go....what kinda crap is that?!)

I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but if you really want some entertainment, pour some salt on it and watch it liquify.

Never got into Lost. I meant to watch the first episode, it looked so good, but I missed it. And then it seemed wrong to start in the middle. I'm obsessive about starting at the beginning of things, like tv shows or series' of books. Even if it doesn't really matter what order you see/read them in. Anyway, back to you! Snails creep me out, ugh. But you're right, better than spiders. And you couldn't pay me to eat one. A fried twinkie on the other hand... :)

Hmmm... I imagine the first person to eat escargo was either *reeeeally* desperate, or did it on a dare (and thus was a guy).

Don't Twinkies leave a sticky trail of ick on your hands? I don't know for sure... I've never dared eat one.

I'm obsessed with Lost. SAYID IS SO FREAKING HOT. Jin, no so much. I feel like I can't get to KNOW him as well because he never speaks. His wife is a freaking stunner though. Do you think it's possible that the whole water scene was a dream? What's HAPPENING TO THEM? And WHY Walt, WHY?

Ooh ooh - and did you see Hurley wink at Walt when he got on the plane? With the COMIC BOOK? Is this an allegory? Is Walt the second coming? And if he's so freakin' clairvoyant WHY DIDN'T HE PREDICT THE STUPID PLANE CRASH? AND WHERE IS DANIELLE'S BABY?

And every time Claire whines about her friggin' baby, I think of that Australian woman whose baby was eaten by dingos and her screaming, "Dingo ate my baby!" And then I get annoyed at Claire and tell her to shut the fark up. LIKE SHE'S A REAL PERSON OR SOMETHING. Yes, I talk to the teevee.

So many unanswered questions. I don't think I can survive summer waiting to find out. I must fly to Hawaii and steal scripts.

I SO with you on the "Lost" stuff - especially Claire. We're supposed to care but....I just don't. Excuse me, but...every single guy on there is pretty damn hot. Even Hurley has his hurt puppy moments. :::grin::: Love the nature pics - I have one of my own to share tomorrow.

Jonna, I cannot survive the summer either!! And I know! I know! DINGOS ATE MY BABY!!

I yell at Charlie like he is my bastard redheaded stepchild always dropping the hamburgers, "Charlie DO NOT EVEN leave Claire with crazylady!! Are you stupid?? YES YOU ARE!!" I mean I was intense last night. I could have snatched Charlie baldheaded for hitting Sayid.

Also, Danielle? WHY does your accent change so from scene to scene? And where is your baby? Was Ethan your baby? Why??? WALT! Why did Hurley give you the thumbs up? And why was Sun asking if they were being punished for sins of the past? Is it all purgatory? TELL ME before I have a heart attack!

Yes, I am way too into this show! heh heh

That cat is SO cute. You can only wonder what he was thinking... "Who is this lady with a weird, metal thing glued to her face? And why is she following me?"

SNB TONIGHT!!! (my last one. sniff.)

"I come in peace" Ok, I can't believe I'm going to say this... but from the looks of that streak across your driveway... I would say... well... he already did.

Ok, the ASPCA will take my god-parent rights away and Angela will never let me see Minou again, but that is honestly the first thing I thought when I saw that photo caption. I'm going to hell, aren't I?

I'm sorry. I'm not an adult anymore. I regressed after eating 20 Hershey kisses today.

And what about Sawyer, hello? Can we say hot grungy guy with no shirt? Yow!

Chickadee, answer your phone, will ya? ;-)

Laurie, I'm HOWLING at your observation on her accent. Yes! Yes! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF ACCENT *IS* THAT? And am I the only one who never heard her called 'Russo' before? Like, Rene or something?

And I must confess: When she stole the baby and I was clued into her line of thinking, I was behind her the whole way, "YES! YES! TAKE THE BABY AS AN OFFERING DANIELLE, IF IT WILL KEEP US ALIIIIIIVE! Stuff it, Claire! You didn't EVEN WANT THIS BABY TO BEGIN WITH. LET HER HAVE IT!"

Like I'm on the island with them. I need professional help.

Egads! Warn us before you go spoiling the Lost finale please! ;)

You are so teh funny.

Oh! Yes! Why Walt? And why the knitted caps? And why were they all crazed Alaskan fishermen (and woman) and very Gorton's fishsticky while Walt and Co. were all hi! we've been Gilliganed!???

I am making no sense. Only watched the last half of the show, so I missed the scary ghost arms but really, how awesome is Charlie for taking gun powder to the forehead?

Yep, will be at SNB tonight AND I am bringin' the flytrap....

hey, yeah, why did they take walt? and why does charlie keep looking more and more like a cute lil monkey to me? and why did those guys wear stocking caps in really hot weather? and whats in that hatch? this show is good, i dont usually like tv too much and everything else is just so much reality. i like snails though. at least you dont have giant white banana slugs all over for you to slip on, they look like big loogies.

I say NEVER let a crazy unbathed French chick with a rifle hold your baby. Judgemental.....perhaps, but it is important to have rules in life.

a friend tells this story of his childhood in belgium - he'd spent the day playing in the garden, and when his mother came out to get him, he was all excited and babbling to her about the abundance of escargot in the garden (only in french, which i cannot speak). he then showed her. by eating a.live.snail. he was four. and this story is a lot less gross when you've had lots of le wine.

mmmmmmmmmmmm Sayid.

I'm SO glad I found your blog... you made me laugh out loud.

and I was so mad at Charlie for taking that statue filled with contraband. I was yelling at the TV, you STUPID asshat! Made the hub run downstairs just to see what I was yelling about!

If I hadn't of had my son with me last night, I would have stayed to watch all of Lost at my folks house. You should have seen me tearing down the highway to my house so the kid could go to bed on time. LOL I only missed a few minutes, but I've got it on tape. Locke's being in a wheelchair is totally a mental thing. I'm pretty sure it was when his father dropped him after Locke gave him his kidney. I've also heard that Walt has the sight. I dunno where that comes from cause I haven't noticed anything. How freaky was it when that one guy blew up??? My mom and I both jumped and yelled. hehehe I think everyone on this show is just too good looking for a 'real' group of people. The only main character that doesn't look like a model or actor is Hurley. Yes even Locke is good looking, but I have to really work at not thinking about those Stepfather movies he made. hehehe

put beer in a saucer and put it on your porch,I heard beer kills them,but that might only be Canadian beer not American...not sure lol

I think the slugs race for the available shells- maybe if you throw some in your neighbours lawn, they'll race over there.....
As for LOST... creepy guys on the boats with GAS and some sort of power for the SPOTLIGHT.... men taking boys.... can we say DELIVERENCE? I'm shivering in creepiness as I type this...

ok i'm now commenting even though you have way too many comments and you can't possibly read all of them so now i'm essentially an anonymous stalker.

but anyway -- i love snails but i tried them for the first time when i was 4 and i just thought they were little balls of meat cooked up with garlic and butter, put into shells to make them pretty and they were yummy. if i had ever thought they were the slimy things on your patio there is no way in hell i would have ever eaten on. blech.

Just one more comment about LOST...Sayid is a sweet, intelligent guy with eyes that you could drown in, however...have you ever wondered why we haven't seen him without his shirt? I'm just sayin.

And please, Jin is awesome....

I've missed so much of Lost that I went to their website to check out the episode guide and happened upon this http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/bios/dominic_monaghan.html
One of you said that they thought Charlie was creepy and check out who he lives with, nuf said!

Hi I'm new. Your blog rocks.

Lost-wise: monster arms are really a big machine. Did you hear all the metallic clanking? Like pullies and gears, maybe a big claw crane thing. Also I think the whole island is man made with secrets inside, the hatch leads to the inside of the machine. Sawyer=yum.

Slug/snail-wise: we do have them in MN they are usually smaller but they really wreck a garden.

let's face it..........it ain't the snails that taste good. It's just that the sauce they come in would make it possible to eat rubber erasers and beg for more...

and yah........salt and beer will kill the little slime balls.

just get a plastic cup, put about an inch of beer in it and they'll drown themselves.

Snail problems? Get the snail eating snails from a nursery; they really work! They're small and you'll never see them. Salt can build up and ruin your plants and it'll be a cold day in you know where before I share my Guinness with the little beggars.

God -- your blog is so good that I now return just to read the day's comments. (me = dork)

The one flaw in the script was that we didn't get to see Sun tell off the obnoxious American woman in the airport. I was waiting for a scene where she turned around and spoke to them in perfect English to embarass the damn woman. Predictable, true, but I like her, and I wanted her to get hers.

Jo's comment about Gorton's fishsticky people vs. Gilliganed people almost made me spit water out of my mouth.
AH HA! Maybe they needed the wool caps because their leader is an obsessive-compulsive knitter!!! hee hee hee (or they've been living underground in the hatch thing)

ABC (and CTV in Canada) will repeat the Lost finale this Saturday, I think it will start at 8 pm but check local listings. I missed the first 22 minutes so I'm happy about that.

The people on the boat are "The Others" -- they weren't on the beach with their signal fire because they were on the boat looking for the boy, Walt. The female on the boat -- she threw the bomb on the raft -- could be Alex (crazy French woman's kidnapped baby girl all grown up) but I didn't get a good look to estimate her age.

I forgot to say, I think The Others are descendents of people who crashed that "Black Rock" ship on the island, whenever that happened.

If you want to cut down on the number of snails/slugs, fill a shallow dish or pie pan with beer - but not a Stella! - and set it out overnight. You have to dispose of them every morning and set out fresh beer every night.

Butter and garlic make most anything really yummy. But I don't think I'm going to start hunting escargot in the garden anytime soon.

They may be coming in peace, but make sure that they don't get your wine, that would be a tragedy!

Okay, so like for four months I've been hearing all about Lost from two girls at my office, and have been wanting to watching it something fierce. But Wednesday night's are for Stitch n Bitching or for going to Poi class, so I've never been able to watch it. My VCR is ghetto, and we don't have TiVo in Canada -- so there was no mistaking it, I'd have to wait for the DVDs to come out. But they tricked me! They aired the season finale on a Thursday, which btw, I usually reserved for CSI. There was no Grissommy goodness last night, so I watched Lost.

Oh my goodness -- what a show! And can I just say, that it's totally taken me until now to realize that the crazy French woman is Delenn from Babylon 5.

Woah.

So after reading all these comments last night and discussing them with the mister, we brought up Lost again (love you TiVo) and paused/super-slow-mo'ed through the scene where John Locke is being dragged through the woods. Best we could see was some fuzzy-chain-like substance, but the chain idea definitely goes with the clanking sound!

mmmmmmmm.......Sayid.

Oh... I live in Seattle, slug capital of the world. This cracked me up. My kids think slug hunting is the greatest sport known to man. This, however, made me flashback to early this morning when I had to squash a spider the size of a Ford Festiva with my shoe. It was on the wall and had to be stopped....but it actually made me gag.

Lost! I had friends over to have a 3 hour crazy marathon (watched last week's episode too since some people missed it). I was disappointed, only because NOTHING was resolved. Why does everything have to be a cliffhanger? However, like you I was stressed during the whole episode. I hate slugs and snails. I had a neighbor as a child who used to shine magnifying glasses on them and watched them sizzle... yuck.

If I weren't at work, I'd be laughing out loud, but I don't want it to seem like I'm doing anything other than cranking out preferred return calcs in excel. Les Escargot is way better than Les Excel. You cracked me up.

oh it's horrible. I am so friend-crushing on you it's stupid. You are so hysterically funny about the goofiest things and I love it. Come be my bestest friend ever and I'll provide wine and tell you how gorgeous your knitted masterpieces are.

and just for the record, I would have helped you steal Jack. Did you SEE those big old smoochie eyes?

Thanks for the snail apocalypse ideas, but... now... after thinking about it last night on the patio ...oh I don't know. They don't seem to be hurting anyone. OH MY GOD, I AM SUCH A WEENIE. But anyway.

All I grow out in the yard is weeds anyway. So it's not like snails are ruining my plants. Besides! I may make some French friends in my whole new leave-my-house social flutter.

I am doing this all for my future French friends... yes, zat is zee truth....

Ooo, Lost. I love you love Lost. I think that it should be a contractual obligation for Sawyer to be shirtless at least 75% of the time. Did you see last week, when he was a sweaty-shirtless-lumberjack? Trembly-swoony goodness.
But OMG! He's SHOT and in the OCEAN with NO RAFT now! It makes me panicky just thinking about it.
Of course, Sayid could probably console me if we lost him - did you see a few weeks ago, in a Sayid backstory, when he went to mosque, and knelt down, and when he touched his face to the floor I wanted to be carpet.
Oh, I heard from a friend that Sayid (well, Naveen Andrews) is in a movie, where he gets it on with someone, and it's naked sexy goodness. I'm going to have to look that up to get through this loooong summer.
But it's Sawyer I love, really. (I took a picture of the teevee when he shirtlessly jumped in the water to save the rudder, that's all I have of him until next season).
Why am I writting so much? You don't even know me. But you are my secret internets-pal whom I stalk on a daily basis. (Sawyer is my secret boyfriend. It's such a secret, he doesn't know yet).
Shushing is very acceptable. I also dope up my dog and cats with many treats before Lost starts so they don't interfere in any way.

Yech! I have never seen a snail in real life, except on my plate as escargot (which I don't see the point of other than a garlic delivery vehicle). However, we do have slugs in MN. My friend and I had a particularly wild party one time, and when we tidied up afterwards we found lots of slugs in and around the beer cans that were strewn about. GRRRROOSSS!

ha ha! i so shush people when they talk during my shows; i get really involved. and um, when i play video games, my whole body moves. (um, 26 is not too old to play video games right?)

What a cute snail! OK, so I hate snails, and slugs even more, but yours is really cute with the leaf & the wine glass...

As a mom who likes to garden, I taught my kids (2&4) this song

1-2-3-4-5
Once I caught a snail alive
6-7-8-9-10
I smashed it with my boot again

I know it doesn't make much sense gramatically, but now they know what to do with snails. They make me so proud.

Just found your blog & love it. I'm also divorced (and remarried) & will hate Mr. X with you but one thing I wanted to mention that I haven't seen you post about: this is your chance to have a lot of random sex and have the perfect excuse for it. Think about it. (& be careful)

Love the snail commentary...

I'm so LOST about lost. There are way too many questions unanswered. I don't want to wail until the fall to get them all answered either!

I'm with Kristi & her theory about the boat people, they are the Others! And the girl who was driving the boat was the French woman's daughter, Alex, she looked to be about the right age.

I agree, Jin is hot. Didn't it make you cry when he left Sun on the island? That was one of Teevee's most touching moments. Loved it.

In all of the airport pre crash scenes, you could always see another member of the survivors in the background. It was fun to pick them out!

P.S. You must get the TiVo. Really.

That's weird, I always thought Alex was a boy...? Maybe I'm wrong.

When the Others took Walt, I totally had a lightbulb moment ("they're coming for the boy") and started freaking out! Luckily I was watching by myself so I didn't need to be embarrassed!

I consider myself to be a great snail hunter, some are so tough though that they'll actually crawl over the slug 'n' snail death that I leave out...so I have to squash them myself! It is a little gross though...