But then I did remember something I had bought online. Something that might fall more into the stupid than the crazy category. This was my contest entry:
I bought a house for frogs. We found a bunch of tadpoles near my in-laws house in Scotland and my husband carried them down to London on the plane. We dug out a pond for them in our garden – but they needed some place to live after they got legs, right?
So, I bought a frog house online. It was really cute, with a thatched roof and everything. It wasn’t forty dollars cute though. (I’m an idiot). And the frogs? After the first storm they hopped away and we never saw them again.
My cats enjoyed sitting on the forty dollar frog house for a while and sharpened their claws on the thatched roof. And now, it’s forty dollar mulch.
Yeah, of course when I bought the frog house the dollar hadn’t slid into the latrine storage area so it wasn’t actually a forty dollar frog house – but it was still stupid enough. I mean any money spent on a house for frogs is stupid money. After all, how would they know the house was for them? I should have bought the $5 sign that said “Frog house”.
You can see a corner of the thatched roof here in the lower left hand corner of this picture.
And I do know what some of you must be thinking – Did she buy that paint-it-yourself gnome online? If so, why is she going on about the frog house being the craziest thing ever?
Well, I didn’t buy the paint-it-yourself gnome – online or anywhere else. My mom did, online. That’s what we got for Christmas last year. The now inhabit a very, very dark corner of the garden. Next to the frog house.
Anyway, you can add your own entry up til tomorrow over here.
December 10, 2007 at 4:24 am
My entry was the fart absorber anti-stink cushion… but you and the lady with the remote control squirrel may have me beat!
December 10, 2007 at 4:54 am
um, was it “Beauty and the Beast”?
December 12, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I’ve actually got a gnome myself in my living room (having an apartment, I don’t actually have a garden to stick it in.) I’ve loved gnomes ever since I saw “Amelie”. I’m planning to at some point start sending him to my friends across the country so they can take pictures of his “travels”.