This afternoon, I was sitting at home, just starting the mountain of work I brought with me from school, when the phone rang.  Some number I didn't recognize popped up on the caller ID.  So, I answered it ( Read more... )

So as we leave this water’s edge
With starlit skies above our heads
May the Phoenix rise again.

Once all was green and thriving-
This world in which we dwell
Was safe, serene, and living,
Filled with dreams of Heaven;
And only nightmares of Hell.

Running through the forests
Were trees, streams, creatures galore!
No time for fear or anger ( Read more... )

And I got my $ back from that scam in November.  Totally learned my lesson.  That is all.

I realized this a few minutes ago whilst stumbling the "crafts" channel on StumbleUpon. Specifically, I came to this epiphany on this site:  sewmamasew.com/blog2/. Here's why:

My mother is known to many as "they puppet lady".  For years she ran her own business called "Joannimals", making lovely and fun stuffed toys.  She kept an album of all the ( Read more... )

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I'm sitting at my computer, playing Frogger for SNES, when an old song stumbles into my head...my sister, my friend Beth, and I came up with this one ( Read more... )

Because I care about you all ( Read more... )

Ok, so my spam folder has suddenly become much more interesting as of late. Usually, it's just random singles' websites and prescription drugs. Occasionally I get a job offer. But, once again, the sex spam has arrived! Let's take a look at the highlights, shall we?

( Not all appropriate.... )

Everyone knows I'm a klutz. Especially when it comes to breaking things, like, for example, drinking glasses. I'm great at carelessly/accidentally smashing them to bits. Actually, anything made of glass, really. So, naturally, most of the items in my kitchen are made of glass, because I really like glass. Let's just say, I tend to break a ( Read more... )

I just found a rotting potato in my kitchen.  Now my kitchen smells.  And not the sickly-sweet smell of tomatoes and fruits rotting, but the warm, putrid smell that I'd normally associate with meat and rodents.  And it was drippy, too.  Ew.

I can't get the smell out of my head.