1. Me in my natural habitat: surrounded by dust and manure, convincing a 1000-lb animal to do something it would really rather not do.

2. Someday I want to live in a house like this.

But in Iceland.

(Photo taken on the Vashon Island Ferry sometime last spring.)

3. Let's go to my room Pig!

(magnets!)

(pencil included for scale!)

4. Worst. Dinner. Ever.

(But it made a nice bowl.)

5. Inedible sushi. It's a sacrilege, I know.

This was my favorite purchase while Christmas shopping. Of course I bought it for myself....

They're supposedly erasers. The fish detaches from the rice balls.

This time, a pen is provided for scale.