One Thing Leads to Another

Have you ever read the children's books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie or If You Give a Moose a Muffin or If You Give a Pig a Pancake?  The whole premise of the books is that one thing leads to another.  Something like (and I'm making this up, not quoting from the book) -- If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk to go along with it.  And if you give him a glass of milk he'll want to see the cow where it came from....

Cute books, wonderful illustrations...my point here is not to promote kiddie lit but they came to mind as I went about my day yesterday.

If you start cleaning the house and look out at a beautiful autumn day, you'll want to do something outside and save the inside cleaning for a rainy day.  And as you're looking outside, you decide it's high time you finally get around to washing the windows.  And when you go outside you realize it's a beautiful day to hang a load of laundry so you strip the bed and throw the sheets in the washer.  And when you start on the windows it's apparent you need the dust buster to suck up the bugs congregating in the corners.  And when you go into the shop in the garage to fetch it, you remember you haven't finished the patina and polish on the stained glass you soldered the day before.  And you really should take that dust buster and vacuum the car.  And it's a beautiful day to wash the car.  And damn, the garage really really really needs a good sweeping.  But you go back to the windows and hope to hell you don't fall off the ladder and break something before your trip to Italy.  And you finally get the bird poop off the big picture window that has been there ALL summer.  And then it's time to make dinner so you go in the fridge and decide the shelves need a wipe down.  And the centre island is covered with stained glass patterns you need to cut out and a parcel you have to pack up and mail and the CD player and Italian lessons you haven't got around to listening to yet today.  And then there's all the tomatoes from the garden on the counter that you really should do something with before they go bad....

Well, you get the picture.  So there's only one thing to be done.

I need a good cloning.

On another note...I love YA fiction.  Many times you get a much better read than some of the best selling adult fiction out there.  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is one such book.  The story is blended with awesome vintage photos giving the reader a much more in depth feel for the peculiar children.  And not a vampire among them.