Gotta Get In Tune With Sailor Moon

The past few days have been very busy and very tiring. I've had several post ideas, but have not been able to execute any of them. It doesn't help that I have gotten into a couple of Animal Crossing: Wild World games over Wi-Fi. Ay-yi-yi. So, just a few random bits and bobs for now.

In case anyone is wondering, Cosette is doing fabulous! She barely has any head tilt at all now. And she is as feisty as ever, which is quite a relief.

I'm going to do another NaBloPoMo challenge. It's gone monthly, instead of just being confined to November. There is a theme for March, which is lists. I love lists, so I think that will be a fun challenge. To keep it interesting.

As usual, when words fail me, I give you HAMSTER (with broccoli).

Bullet The Blue Sky

• We threw our annual shindig for the Oscars last night and it seemed to be a success. We had a nice, laid-back crowd of 40 or so in our tiny home, watching in various rooms. It was a good mix of people, food, and snark. Even though some were missing.
  

• Tomorrow is my 13th anniversary with E. We are going to Largo to see the lovely Anna Waronker perform. It's been a few years since we've seen her live, so I'm really looking forward to it. And Largo is one of our favorite places for music in L.A.
  

• The terrible weather, complete with downpours, that we had over the weekend was replaced by blue skies today. Hooray for that and for my very green back yard that has thrived in the recent rains.
  

Anything Ragged Or Rotten Or Rusty

Since when did Oscar The Grouch fall out of favor with the young ones? I have long been an Elmo fan (before it was cool, thanks to much younger siblings), but I've also always had a fondness for the grumpy guy in the garbage can. And his pet worm Slimey too, of course.

We've only been to three stores total, but neither E nor I could find any sort of Oscar merchandise. What's up with that? When there were Sesame Street products at all, it seems the only characters available are Elmo, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and sometimes Big Bird. Not only is Oscar missing, but what about Bert and Grover and Telly and Snuffy and even Zoe? The Count?

So, who is/was your favorite character(s) from Sesame Street. I'm sure many of you had one or some as kids and maybe different ones as parents.