Six things about me, courtesy of Dani.

1. I like unloading the dishwasher, but not reloading it. Even though reloading it takes all of seven minutes and leaves me with a clean(er) kitchen.

2. Facebook is freaking me out. How does it know who I know? Why is it convinced I know people I don’t know? Etc.

3. After my birthday this year, my age will be divisible by 2 and 3 and 5 and 6 (well, obviously the 6, if the 2 and 3).

4. I want to buy scrabble tiles to use as a school supply, but I want the natural wood ones with black letters, not the maroon wood ones with white letters. So far I am having minimal success finding them—or anyway, finding enough of them to be useful. Where should I look, do you think? I’m searching etsy right now. (Me = a wee bit obsessive and also nuts.)

5. Searching etsy makes me anxious right now because it reminds me of the CPSIA nonsense. I feel like I better buy every cool handmade thing for kids before the new regulations go into effect, but I can’t actually buy every cool handmade thing for kids, so I just feel anxious. When I wrote to my congressperson, he sent me back a form letter about how he’s working hard to protect me from toys made in China. Dude, I am not afraid of toys made in China, because I only buy from companies whose manufacturing policies I trust. What I am worried about is that the new regulations will put out of business all the small businesses that make and sell the products I want to buy. And now we’re back to anxious again. (For the record, yes, I absolutely think we need better regulation and enforcement, but I don’t want to see better regulation of mass-produced toys come at the expense of handmade toys. Visit the Handmade Toy Alliance to read more about this.)

6. What else, what else… I can’t think of anything else, and those last two were long and should count for 1.5 each, right? No? Oh, here’s something: I’m using my burst of ambition to come up with goals for the year. I don’t know what they are yet, but I’m thinking about it. Feel free to offer suggestions. Did you set any goals for 2009?

If you want to play along: tag! Tell us six things about yourself.