Nate's 250th Cartoon!!

Speaking of major achievements, a big shout out to Nate's Cartoons! celebrating his 250th cartoon last Friday! He used to have a big banner up and everything, but he took it down because now he has 251 and I guess he thinks that's not as special (but it is!).

If it were me, I'd leave the banner up and just change the number each day. Then every day would be a celebration!

PS. Also congrats to "Toy Story 3" and "The King's Speech" (Colin Firth, too, of course!) for their awesome Oscar wins last night. I was rooting for both of you! Also congrats to "The Lost Thing" which was very pretty and sweet... or maybe that was just me being fooled by the lovely narrator's accent.

Zach Anner Gets His OWN TV Show!!!!!!!!!

I've been pulling for Zach Anner ever since he posted that awesome audition tape for Oprah's "Your OWN Show" and now he is getting his OWN show!

He's super funny and awesome and gives me hope that all of us can be amazing and happy despite having debilitating diseases (mine of which is clearly not nearly as debilitating as his is, obvs).

He honestly could not deserve this more and I cannot wait to watch "Rollin' Around the World with Zach Anner."

Bring it on!

The Best Way to Decorate Your Home

Step 1. Cover everything in white

Step 2. Buy two projectors

Step 3. Hire Mr. Beam

Step 4. Do this:

Living Room from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.

Step 5. Hang out in your awesome room which can be anything you want it to be!

Woo! New Transplant Drug Blood Test!

I'm not planning on switching over to Everolimus anytime soon, but good to know there's an accurate test for reading its drug levels in my blood if I ever decide to switch! Boo yah!

(PS- There's a paywall now so you can't read the whole article anymore, but what I've got is the basic gist of it)

Goaty Dance!

This reminds me of when I was a little kid on our ranch in South Texas. I was about the size of the baby goats we had, and when I would try to climb a tree, they would hop up into it, then hop back down to see why I hadn't gotten into it, then hop back up and wait for me. Needless to say, I was never able to climb as high as they could!

(Note: play without the music)

Good Enough to Eat

This Milky Way photo is truly incredible. You can find it on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day in a way larger size.

Isn't it amazing that we can see the Milky Way while being right in the midst of it? So many stars! And I just love that you can see the hint of lights at the edges of the snow.

A beautiful and relaxing way to wind down the day, if you ask me.

Teen Feeds Millions of Dogs!

Ok, ok, rarely do I find anything beyond adorable pictures of puppies (mostly corgis!) at A Place to Love Dogs, but this article was too cute and "p'aawww" (get it!?!?) inspiring to pass up.

Apparently, some sweet kid named Mimi Ausland in Oregon started a website called FreeKibble, where you answer a trivia question and sponsors donate money to local animal shelters. Pretty awesome, huh?

Oh right, and she was ELEVEN when she started it! Can you believe it? When I was eleven, I went around school trying to get people to go to Care2.com, but I failed - miserably!

Glad to see someone doesn't go to an all-girl's school where environmental stewardship was looked at a taping-up-a-locker-worthy offense. (Yes, girls tape up lockers, too. They're very mean!)

Seriously, it was like being in an episode Everyone Hates Chris, in that Everyone Hated Endangered Tree Frogs (and, by extension, Me).