Cleaner

I did some cleaning yesterday. I vacuumed and then mopped the floors. It had been a while and we'd had a dust storm a couple of weeks ago and all the floors were covered in a thin layer of red dust. This didn't trouble me much at the time, but when I came back after being away for a week I noticed it.

So I vacuumed. Then mopped the floors.. bathroom, living room, kitchen. And then, after all that, I found myself standing in the door of my bedroom and I started thinking that maybe I wouldn't mop the floor in there just then(floors here hardwood, just to clarify.). Maybe another time, I found myself thinking. A better time.

Another time? A better time? I caught myself thinking this and had to have a stern word with myself. What would be a better time to mop the floor? What would that look like? I was, after all, standing in the door of the bedroom with in one hand a bucket of hot water with floor cleaning crap in it, and in the other hand a mop and I had the crushing realisation that there just wasn't going to be a better time. And that the only possible reason for not mopping the floor right then and there was if I had a massive coronary, or the earth was hit by an asteroid or something.

It only took a couple of minutes.

Area

This at the back of Chadstone shopping center, as you walk over to the oval and the cricket nets (yes, my life is incredibly glamorous). This sign would once have said "Assemby Area" and someone's had a go at it. On the one hand, it's not clever and it's not funny. On the other hand, it actually is.

NCIS.. where?

Channel 10 here is about to show NCIS Los Angeles, which I only know because I've been watching some tv this week with my kids. And so what?, I can hear you ask.

If you watch anything on channel 10 you get endless promos for the show, which doesn't look half bad. But what gets me (and you know me well enough to know there's always something) is the voiceover guy. "NCIS... Los AngelEEZ", he says.

Smarter.

Ollie says I'm just like Homer Simpson, except a bit smarter. Could be worse, I guess...

More on names.

Yesterday's Sunday Herald-Sun. There were 17 babies featured. Take a deep breath... the list included:

• Sydnee
• Maddison
• Mitchall (no, I didn't get it wrong, that's how they spelled it)
• Mikayla (again)
• Morgan
• Hudson
• Eden
• Sienna

Names again.

And speaking of names (pay attention), I've trained my sons to answer to Brayden and Jayden. I'm less sure about the girls; I tried Krystle and Chardonnay but they don't have the same oomph. Also, of course, they don't rhyme. Suggestions?

Names

Sunday's Herald-Sun has a section towards the back where each week they feature a dozen of so babies. A little photo of each one, a couple of sentences. My kids and I are unhealthily interested in this; it's a little family ritual we've developed over the last couple of months.

It's the names of the babies that are fun. This week, for example, we found a Jaxon and a Mikayla. Bullseye!