SOME TATTOOS FOR MY TEETH

I have been pretty lucky in terms of my teeth. I've only had two cavities and only one of those actually required freezing to have the filling done.

However, after a five year dental hiatus and a sad reminder that I have not always flossed as I do now, I have come to learn that I have THREE cavities that require filling.

I'm not happy about this.

But I've had three tattoos and a baby, so how bad can this be, right?

The dentist had mentioned that he told kids that when having a cavity filled, they were going to get a cool silver tattoo on their tooth. I thought that was kind of cool and was going to blog about the new silver tattoos I was going to be getting soon (if this cough ever goes away).

So, as I often do, I turned to Google to see if I could find a good picture of a tattoo on a tooth. And wouldn't ya know - people actually DO IT! Seriously. Google TOOTH TATTOO and see what you come up with. Crazy.

Mine are going to be way cooler.

Mine are going to look like silver stars.

But perhaps not quite like this. LOL

BAD PARKING 3 FOR 1

What I love most about grocery shopping on Saturdays is that it seems to bring out the bad parkers. These three are all from the same day, same trip, same lot, same walk from our car to the grocery store doors.

A lovely display of bad parking. Apparently I'm not the only one with Bad Parker Attractant.

A fabulous example of really bad parking in a Small Car spot. Granted, the car is not particularly large, but I'll bet the driver thinks he is.This is my favorite. Not only is it bad parking, but it's bad parking by a truck in a small car spot. And though I hate to judge a book by its cover (oh who am I kidding, I judge, especially if the cover is stupid looking), this guy deserved a grand Boot to the Head.I have more photos from today. However, this triad of stupid was all in one trip, one walk, so I wanted to honor them all in one post.

MORE BAD PARKING

I drive a Toyota Echo. It is a small car. Since it is a small car, I do not feel the least bit guilty parking in the sports marked SMALL CAR.

I have learned that driving a small car and parking it in a SMALL CAR spot means that when I come back to my small car, I will find it surrounded by SUVs. These SUV drivers don't seem to realise that they are NOT small cars and should consider driving the one or two more feet to find a spot in the NOT small car spots.

This is not a small car.

This is not a small car either.

Remember the bank? I'm not quite sure what this guy was doing. He was actually handicapped - had the sticker and everything. Why he didn't consider parking in the handicapped spot is a mystery to me. Well, I guess he kinda did. A bit. Ten points for the creative parking angel there, bud! Even my four year old daughter thought you needed a boot to the head for this parking disaster.

This is my Toyota Echo, on the left. When I came back to my car, I found this SUV demonstrating, like many others before him, parking close to my car induces euphoria. I have hundreds - yes, hundreds - of pictures of bad parking. I need a new hobby. Until then, I'm going to keep using up these bad parkers' 15 minutes of fame here.

MOON PHOTOGRAPHY AND WEEBS

As many of you know, I dig Astronomy, and I have recently become interested in Lunar Photography.

Posted below is my first Moon photo. I was trying to get a good capture of 'the Man in the Moon'.

I'm amazed with the detail you see even with a fairly inexpensive camera.

I was having a bit of a difficult time with this particular photo shoot because Weeb was just getting into EVERYTHING! Anyone with young kids knows what I'm talking about.

Still, I think it turned out well. And you just have to love Moon photos. I mean, how can you not?

BIG APPETITES FOR TINY STUFF

Whales are awesome.

I was reading about a Gray Whale that had washed up on a Vancouver Island beach. The article also mentioned UBC recently acquiring a Blue Whale skeleton after one of these behemoths washed up on a beach in PEI. I wanted to know the difference in sizes between the two types of whales and found this diagram, which showed it pretty well. They're big!

For me, it's hard to really visualise how large these creatures can be. I've seen Killer Whales and Belugas up close-ish, but these are not even remotely the largest of the bunch.

How such enormous animals feed themselves on such tiny things (like krill) is amazing to me.

Pretty big, eh? Blue whales are as big as some of the ocean dwelling dinosaurs!

According to the Vancouver Aquarium, killer whales used to be terribly feared as ferocious monsters of the deep. 25 years of research have taught us a lot about these beautiful, misunderstood creatures. It's actually a pretty cool story about how the Vancouver Aquarium first started studying Killer Whales, but I can't find the tale online (in the five seconds I just spent) and am pretty sure I read it in a book I bought at the Aquarium, so I'll have to chat about that later.

CBC ARTICLE: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/07/bc-grey-whale-beached-starvation.html

FIRST IMAGE: http://www.orienthq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/305d.gif

SECOND IMAGE: http://www.orienthq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/305d.gif

VANCOUVER AQUARIUM: http://www.vanaqua.org/

Whales. Awesome!

NAIR WARNINGS

NAIR WARNINGS THAT SHOULD BE ON THE BOTTLE:

If product is applied to face, we are not kidding about trying a small patch and waiting 24 hours to see reaction. Seriously, this stuff will burn the smile right off your face and you'll end up with a chemical burn and a bright red scar of stupidity above your lip instead of the Sasquatch mustache you're trying to get rid of. But don't heed the instructions, you go ahead and do whatever you want because you're clearly smarter than us. Go on and pile on a ton of this stuff above your lip and then wait 6 minutes instead of the recommended 4 because you clearly have stubborn lip hair as determined by an experiment on your legs with our product 20 years ago that didn't do anything for ya. No really, go ahead. Pile it on. Leave it on too long. Do a happy dance when the hair comes off. Then pout for the rest of the day (and a week or two to follow) because you're a freaking moron. But don't even consider writing a nasty letter to us because here's the warning in black and white. Idiot.