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By Mom Unplugged, May 16, 2007 10:01 pm

How could I nearly have missed this important holiday! I just discovered that today, May 16th, is International Sea Monkey Day! (I kid you not.) Children the world over will dress their Sea Monkeys up in their Sunday-best, sing Sea Monkey songs, eat Sea Monkey-shaped cakes. What would a Sea-Monkey shaped cake look like any way?

Like many children of my era, I fell victim to the advertisements in the comic pages of the Sunday paper and desperately wanted some Sea Monkeys (Artemia Salina, brine shrimp). My mother knew they were not what they appeared to be in the ads featuring cute little smiling humanoids and, certainly fearing having to deal with my disappointment, would not let me have any. [Note: Ad picture was found on Sea Monkey Geek at his post Were you Disappointed?]

I am glad to see that Sea Monkeys still exist, and actually seem to be quite a popular subject on the internet:

• Click here for a Sea Monkey musical video entitled “Ocean Of Fire.”
• To order (or for more info about these “dream pets”) visit the Official Sea-Monkey Website.
• Visit Sea Monkey Mania or Sea Monkey Geek.
• If you are REALLY into your Sea Monkeys, then visit the Sea Monkey Worship Page.
• Search “sea monkeys” on Amazon and you will find three whole pages of Sea Monkeys items! How about Sea Monkeys on Mars, or even a Sea Monkey action figure to celebrate this special day?

Happy International Sea Monkey Day!!

PS: Sea Monkeys seem to be quite a cultural phenomenon for a certain generation. If you are too old or too young, you may not have even heard of them. I was just on the cusp of the end of Sea Monkey popularity. If you have Sea Monkey memories to share, please leave a comment!

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By Mom Unplugged, May 3, 2007 6:38 pm

I just received a really cool email that seems to be making the rounds. I usually delete most of these circulating emails, but this one is very clever!

If you are up for a little easy math, give it a try. If your kids are old enough to do this math, have them do the calculations.

Unless you are a mathematician and can easily see some obvious (to you!) formula involved, I guarantee you will be astonished!!

IMPORTANT: DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! I know, now that I have said this, everyone will WANT to scroll down, but it will diminish the surprise, so try and have a little will-power please!

It takes less than a minute.
Work this out as you read …
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!

Here goes:

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat. (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757
If you haven’t, add 1756.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

AND…….

The first digit of this was your original number
(ie. how many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)

The next two numbers are:

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

According to the email, this is the only year (2007) that it will ever work. Any math wizards out there who would care to comment / explain this?

UPDATE (May 5): SOLVED!!! By wizard whymommy of Toddler Planet! Thank you so much whymommy! Please see her comment to this post for the full explanation!

Thanks to morguefile.com and photographer Dave Wicks for this fun photo (visit his site: http://www.opticgroove.com).

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By Mom Unplugged, March 28, 2007 11:14 am

Here’s one for you: Baby Disco Parties.

My friend Amy, who’s favorite form of procrastination is researching for my blog (thanks Amy!!), found this one at Lynne Griffin’s blog, her post is called Baby Loves Quiet.

Apparently parent-child dance parties are now taking place at a club near you. Hurry up! Wake baby from his nap, put on his best baby spandex and head on over for an afternoon of ear-shattering music, dancing, smoking, and boozing with baby! Cool! Kind of like Music Together or Gymboree on steroids (and with a few margaritas for Mom).

OK, am I weird? Does this sound fun? Lynne has already covered the “harmful to baby” angle quite nicely in her post so I won’t even go there. But my question to you is the following: does boogieing with an overstimulated, overtired, and possibly frightened baby sound like a great afternoon to you?

And what I really want to know, is where do you change the diaper? I have never been in a club that sported changing tables in the bathrooms. Ashtrays and condom machines yes, changing tables - no. My club experience is somewhat limited, so maybe I have just never been to the right sort of club.

So grab that little sleepy-head and let’s go clubbing! We’ll show baby what a good time is really like!