I recently updated my Blogroll, and one of the new blogs I added was APOD, NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of The Day. I heard about it from Sinnick about six months ago and since then, it’s become a daily fixture in our house. The Captain is really into space — typical for a five or six year old boy, I think, and also amplified by his Star Wars obsession — so he is very excited to see the daily photo. It’s almost always beautiful and amazing and dazzling.

Take, for example, the photo from two days ago — this is Saturn, back-lit by the sun. It’s hard to spot in this small photo but if you go to the APOD site, you’ll see a teeny tiny blue dot inside the rings (on the left hand side, just outside the very bright inner rings), and that’s Earth. SO COOL.

Anyway, I just wanted to specifically mention it, in case you happen to also have a space-obsessed boy or girl. It’s a fun thing to share with them.

In other news, I have my big PTA Art Thing today, so naturally, instead of practicing my presentation or gathering materials, I’ve decided to pick today to take all the recipes I’ve ever cut from magazines and paste them into a scrapbook. It’s a project I’ve been meaning to get around to for like, a year and a half, so why not today, when I have a large, looming deadline that I should be focusing on instead? Maybe, while I’m at it, I’ll reorganize the closets and start getting ready for the garage sale I’m hoping to have in June! No time like the present!

Yeah, it’s going to be GREAT tonight.