I forgot to post this! I have a dress for my sister's wedding (number 81505).

I have it in clover. It is SO pretty, and it was only $40! Seriously, the tale of the Lyman sisters and the cheap-o dresses is getting better and better.

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this is so excellent: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/opinion/18collins.html

I got a new computer! My laptop was way old (pushing five, practically geriatric in computer years), and was starting to do troublesome things like shutting off while I was in the middle of working on things. That's usually the last death rattle before a full-blown hard drive failure, so I beat it to the punch and used my birthday money to buy a ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to switch to a mostly vegetarian/pescetarian diet from now on. ( (the rest is a rant / disgusting story. read at your own risk. seriously. and definitely don't read this if you're eating.) )

GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOT!!!!!

So I haven't posted in forever and I'm not going to do the whole "what I've been doing for the past six months" post now... I just wanted to post that my sister and Erick are finally going to get married in October (eeks!) and I am the TOTAL hero of the day because I got her dress!!! She had tried on a Galina dress at David's Bridal when we were ( Read more... )

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I broke down and bought a ridiculously expensive Dyson vacuum cleaner today. It is AWESOME. We've had a horrible time trying to vacuum our carpet and rugs -- all of our various vacuums have either clogged irreparably or just broken in the process. I brought this baby home and - no clogs! I cleaned and cleaned, and there was SO much nastiness ( Read more... )

I was totally resisting the Harry Potter mania, planning to wait a few months to buy the book and approach the whole thing with a level head. Then, when I was in the bookstore today, I saw the huge pile of them, all with inviting 40% off stickers, and...I broke down and bought a copy. I've started reading the book, and it's good so far, although ( Read more... )