Presents, Stories, & African Babies

Despairkitty got her present. It's this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/817c/ He's a Yoda-shaped backpack, or is that a backpack that looks like Yoda? She says, "Lol…I LOVE MY PRESENT. It rocks so much. Thank you thank you thank you. I will give you a call tomorrow and I am taking him to the convention. I probably will just wear my starwars gear as a sort of theme. Love it thanks lexa. He rocks. :)"

Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside, in a non-gay way. Well, I've done my good deed for the year, so that's that.

I read Little Red Riding Hood last night in German. I thought it had a bit of a predictable plot, not very original at all. Now my cat thinks I'm a 'tard because I was reading out loud and it was taking me three tries on some words to get the pronounciation to something I like. Not necessarily right to German ears, just a pronounciation that I liked. Then again, the cat probably already thought I was retarded.

One of my old coworkers just came in. She and her husband (and little boy) are adopting a baby from Africa, Ethiopia specifically. They asked for 2 children and the agency said they'd either find a sibling group or put two unrelated orphans togther for them. They will go there soon to get the kids, who will be babies. There's a rule that the adopted children need to be three years younger than any the family already has. Their son Oliver is just 3 now, so they have to get babies. Oh, they are white people; the wife is a redhead. She has many adopted siblings from all over the planet so they are very excited about Ethiopian babies. I hope they pick good names.