Koolaid n Krickets

Maddie is a marketing genius. I think she may have found her true calling in life. Last Saturday she decided to have a Koolaid stand. We only had those tiny Dixie cups, so I told her she ought to sell them for like 10 cents. She decided on 25 cents with 3 free refills. It wasn't until later that I found out that she made Alex and Isabel walk up and down the sidewalk in costumes to attract business. What costumes you ask? Well, Alex in a tutu, for one. I don't know how she got him to do that, but they made 19 bucks!! I'm going into the Koolaid stand business. I would have taken pictures had I known what was going on, but I hear that one of the neighbor kids took one, so hopefully I'll be getting that soon.

In other news...our tv is chirping. You know it's going to be a bad day when you're still half-asleep and your husband tells you that he found the cricket cage partially open on the floor and that one of them escaped. Then later, thinking you dreamed that, you look at the cricket cage and find it completely empty. I called Paul to ask how he knew that just one escaped, since there were at least 6 in there. "Oh....well I guess all of them escaped, then," he says. FABULOUS. The only one with an actual identifiable location is the one INSIDE the tv. I can hear it chirping in there somewhere, and it's not very dumb.

Here's the deal. We are done with this frog. I know this is not going to entice any of you to take it off our hands, but if you know ANYONE that would like a frog, this one's free of charge. Plus it comes with many, many free accessories. We're keeping the tank....but everything else....FREE. How can you pass up such a deal??

This frog never eats. I seriously don't know how he keeps on living. The frog care instructions say that this type of frog is prone to overeating and obesity, and the salesgirl at Petco told me to expect him to outgrow his water dish and get really big. Not our frog. Our frog is the Nicole Richie of the amphibian world. He goes like two weeks without eating anything and he's extremely skinny. Yet he keeps on tickin. I don't feel like waiting around 20 minutes to get a Petco employee to bag ONE cricket for me, so I just buy the pre-bagged ones. It's like 80 cents a bag for about 10 crickets. Waaaay too many. I guess I should let all the other ones go, but it seems wasteful.

So then there's this particularly retarded batch. The bag said 10, but it had to be more like 15. The cricket cage isn't very big, so I got a mason jar and put half of them in there, so they wouldn't be crawling all over each other. They won't SHUTUP - they chirp constantly. Some Spartan cricket in the mason jar promptly killed all the others, stacking their bodies and spreading their legs around. It was appetizing to see. And have I mentioned how good dead crickets smell?? FANTASTIC. I just threw the entire mason jar away. Now this fiasco with the remaining crickets escaping is just the last straw.

So, come on, any takers?