Last night I made some cookies.

I rolled up the dough and carefully placed the little balls equidistant from each other onto a cookie sheet.
I then, opened the hot oven door and went to put the cookies in, but without thinking, tilted the cookie sheet a little too far forward--enough to send a couple of the dough balls rolling off the sheet and onto ( Read more... )

Cats Vs. Dogs
A debate that has spanned centuries and at least 51,700,000 google results.

So I'm going to look at a much smaller slice of that pie, and address a rivalry that until now, has probably remained relatively unexplored:

Cat Writers Vs. Dog Writers

To give you an idea, how I initally got to this topic, let's backtrack a little.

Today, the 25th ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was at the dollar store and I found these packages of greeting cards ( Read more... )

I took the first picture because I thought it was amusing. The next month I was glad I did.


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“...And if placed side by side, there would be enough to wrap around the world 9 times!!” We’ve all heard at least one of those ‘amazing’ facts. They’re on every company’s marketing page for kids titled Amazing Facts about...[insert product here], and my guess is these facts’ primary reason for existence is most likely so that they will end up on ( Read more... )

Sometimes I want to respond to craigslists ads. Maybe someday I'll actually send them.

Free cat Feb. 3, 2011
She is 5 years old and a great cat. We are moving across the country and will not be able to take her. She is a russian blue. she is fixed and declawed on her front paws. Her name is paris and she needs a good home to go to. ( Read more... )

My three favorite quotes from last week ( Read more... )

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. - Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)

A few days ago, I was at the library and I decided to test authors' ability to write a good first line to their novel. Some were incredibly boring and others made me laugh. I sat there for a little while, just picking out random books from the shelf reading their ( Read more... )

November 19th...This Friday is World Toilet Day!! I just can't say it any better than this website does, but in case you don't want to look through the whole thing, I've highlighted some of the best information on it for your reading pleasure. If you'd like to print this off, and read it in the bathroom, I think it could be classified as ( Read more... )

"We have a black coffee table that we tried to make into a piano bench and it didn't really work out. As a result, there are a few holes in the top..."

"I have two microwaves. Both are white in color...the first one just stopped heating one day....The second one started powering itself off and on...."

(Yeah I'd get the possessed microwave out of ( Read more... )