Toni has a new blog about story prompts. I checked it out, found it very interesting but I felt I didn’t have the energy to make a contribution just yet.
As I scrolled down her index page, I got to the entry about what’s on your desktop. I paused, realizing that I have had this very cute desktop wallpaper for over a month but I hadn’t really given it much thought after installing it.
I found the egg wallpaper after Sam showed me a Japanese website about eggs — egg toys, actually — because she wanted me to hear the song that played on the index page. I tried checking my browser history but it’s been too long and the link isn’t there anymore. I tried searching Google using “egg toy” as keywords, found this, this and this, but not the one that Sam showed me over a month ago.
The third link in the preceding paragraph is for an egg-shaped stress ball which got me thinking that a better stress ball for an overworked female employee would be in the shape of a man’s (tiny) balls that can be squeezed and crushed, stepped on, stomped on and thrown around while imagining it is her boss’s balls. But that’s not the point. Just a big time digression.
The fourth link I clicked on led to a page selling dinosaur egg toys. All of sudden, I had a story prompt like the ones that Toni talks about in her new blog. “Dinosaur egg”. Something happened in our house — is still happening, in fact — that has very much to do with one dinosaur egg.
Alex has an egg project in school. She’s supposed to make a contraption for an egg so that if the egg is dropped from a two-storey building, it will not crack. Sam did a similar project last year and got too may praises for her egg-suspended-in-rubber-bands contraption.
Anyway, Alex was looking for a small container that would fit an egg snugly. She had been bugging everyone in the house until, one night, Speedy found a clear plastic egg shaped container that opened into two perfect halves. He was already handing it over to Alex when Sam screamed that it was hers and she banned us all from touching it. Where the egg container came from, I did not know. What it was for, I did not know either.
Later that night, intending to bake something to relieve the stress, I was looking for my measuring cup for liquids. I searched everywhere and couldn’t find it. Then, I saw it on the kitchen window ledge — and there was an egg inside submerged in water. Everyone had gone to bed by that time and I decided I would just ask the next day. At the back of my mind, I assumed that it was Alex’s because she was the one doing an egg project.
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Hi Connie. That’s a cute wallpaper.
I think I have an idea about that little egg in the water.
I would like to invite you to take a peek at my son’s pals ~ Henny and Chickee.
So it was a dinosaur.I
I think I saw something like that in Rachel’s blog but hers were chicks. It was submerged in water and growing bigger day after day.
We have something similar growing at home too, mongo seeds on cotton balls in plastic egg containers. We “planted” these seeds last Sunday and now these have grown to two inches tall. And yes, we took photos everyday too
A lesson on parts of the plants and plant growth.
Me too. I like Toni’s new blog very much.
Rach, I just saw your chicks hehehe Hatched in one day, huh? Fast, fast.
Julie, I did the mongo seeds and litmus paper thing in grade school too.
Great idea, Em, ‘no? And a photo as a story prompt is more stimulating than a word.
Ohhhh.. virtual pet! hahaha! Buti nga, ganyan lang kalaki, e, paano kung maging mas malaki pa sa bahay nyo? Thanks to Speedy!
Nice wallpaper!
Hello Connie. That’s a very nice wallpaper. Cute actually.
I also saw Rach’s son’s chicks…what a cool idea for a ‘pet’
Ah! Those eggs are so cute! I picture them as the toys you see in arcades, wherein a crane picks them up after you push that quarter. You know those games?
Yep, seen them, played them. Never caught anything though LOL
you are so right. the perfect stress ball for women would be in the shape of man balls. yes, i can almost see it now. less grouchy moms, more productive teens. easier menopause. by jove, i can see man ball-shaped stress balls saving the world!
LOL Liz, you are right — it’ll work for EVERY female, not just employees but wives, moms and girlfriends too. I should apply for a patent hahaha
Happy Birthday, Connie!
Synchronicity! After reading your post, I went home and received a fundraising catalog from my kids’ school, and there was an entire line of kitchen products pictured in your post, inside! They have chick egg slicers, one-egg fry pans, spatulas, whisks, egg mashers, and so on…. Napabili tuloy ako!
Thanks, Lisa.
NYCMama, it’s i-love-eggs day hehehe
hehe you succumbed to the call of the viral wallpaper tag
cute nga
Ate Connie,
Makiki-happy Birthday din ako ha! Ka-birthday mo pala ang Mama ko.
Re: desktop: That’s really cute.
Re: Dino eggs: I would like to buy a couple of those eggs for my Lil K, she’s going to be so excited over the dino eggs!
Off-limits ang mga measuring cups ko, nakasabit with an invisible “no touch” sign.
auee, tag pala yun? di ko alam hahahaha
KK, the eggs are PhP50.00 per only. Well, in the Philippines anyway. And I think the dinos come in different colors.