It's been a +/- kind of day.

-: Every morning, Astrid becomes personally affronted as multitudes of people cross in front of her sight line on their ways to work. How dare they walk on her sidewalk? And so she must bark, and bark, and bark. She likes to get on top of the blue chair, look out the window, and bark ( Read more... )

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT: it seems like I have finally stopped feeling competitive with people* from high school!!

And it only took me 15 years.

I couldn't have done it without Super Acai Berry and Ultra Colon Cleanse, you know. :)

UNRELATED: snow day! (More like drip day at this point, but hey, why look a gift horse in the mouth?)

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Today I got the SIXTH Facebook friend request from someone asking if I am Carrie Floyd from Hanover ( Read more... )

You should try these Kashi Hot Pocket-like things. I have eaten one for lunch every day this week. They are delicious (and they don't even have CHEESE in them! That's some strong magic), and they are relatively healthy, I think, and they have actual vegetables in them ( Read more... )

If you want a phone book, you should have to REQUEST it.

They shouldn't just appear, unwanted, on your doorstep every three months.

The week-old loaf of bread in my breadbox smells like nail polish remover.

It doesn't have any mold on it, but I figure the acetone smell is a good reason not to eat it, yes?

Browsing the furniture listings on Craigslist makes me laugh. Reasons include:

the Typos (goes without saying, really)

the Inclusion of Irrelevant Life Events in Descriptions

"I use to use these lillipad lamps in college, but now that I droped out and moved back home I do not use them N-E-more."


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Secret Confession: for a long time, I have not liked hot chocolate. I thought of hot chocolate as Swiss Miss mixed with water, with some sad little marshmallows on top, and when you get to the bottom, there is this too-sweet syrupy grossness.

Friday, though, one of my students gave me this, which is dark chocolate shavings laced with ( Read more... )

WHY is unloading the dishwasher such an arduous task? My current theory is that we don't have enough cabinets, and I don't like having to un-stack and re-stack everything ( Read more... )

Hey, remember last year when I was obsessed with those brown-and-white Marimekko Himmeli sheets from Crate and Barrel, and I looked ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE FOR THEM, and I irritated Bill because really, how could anyone care so much about sheets ( Read more... )