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My memory yesterday was awful. Then I proceeded to have vivid, terrifying nightmares with the most crazy antagonists you've ever seen- like a psychologically unhinged 90-something-year-old lady. I'm awake now and I still find her to be frightening. If I wrote screen plays, I might have just written my first and only horror movie. Unfortunately ( Read more... )

Years ago- as in, before I got married- I asked my brother what kind of scarf he would like me to knit him. He wanted an orange scarf, but all Wal-Mart had at that time and that day that wouldn't itch like mad was Bernat Super Stripes in orange and black. It's a nice little self-striping yarn. They only had one skein left, but I thought, hey, it ( Read more... )

My old laptop, as it was toast even before it was actually toasted, has been cannibalized and the old hard drive given a new enclosure. rinzor and I tackled that task while I was in Norman. I got my old music off (or am in the process of it- goodness I had a bunch), but the really cool bit is that I finally have my address book back! Yay! You guys ( Read more... )

One day, when I was two, I wanted a bottle (Yes, I still drank bottles when I was two. I actually stopped on my 4th birthday. Looong time, I know.). The problem: we were out of milk. My mom had recently stopped breastfeeding me (Yes, I breastfed until I was two. Not quite so shocking these days, but in 1988, it was virtually unheard of.), so ( Read more... )

I think I post every time I bake this cake. It always fills me with such joy- it's both ridiculously tasty and easy ( Read more... )

Sure, it was submitted by someone named Carol Potenza... but we all know that squirrel can't be just a squirrel.


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I found a dead wheel bug dangling from a bit of spider web outside the church, so I gingerly plucked it up to take it home and get a closer look at one. Once home, I was trying to put it back on the side table without breaking it, when I accidentally dropped it on the floor (breaking off part of an antenna, doh!). As I was leaning down to get it ( Read more... )

Some time ago I wanted a hot fudge sundae, so I grabbed one at a Braum's. A few days ago I thought, "You know, it's a shame I'm at home and can't make a hot fudge sundae. All that's available is chocolate sauce and chocolate sauce recipes." Not that chocolate sauce is bad, mind you, but it doth not a hot fudge sundae make. But then I thought " ( Read more... )

I give you the Helsinki Complaints Choir. After a less than grand day, it always makes me feel better.

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