About a month ago, I messed up my hand (long story, the moral of which is: don't try to pick up a bed with two fingers, because nerve damage sucks and takes a long time to get better ( Read more... )

One more, and then I promise to stop the decor spam. Until I do the bathroom, anyway. Which may be a month or so--I need to straighten out the budget after this shindig.

I just wanted to take a close up of the floor, because the samples online are terrible photos, and you can't really see it in my photos of the room as a whole.


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( Kitchen Remodel! Well, sort of... )

All day, I've been trying to think what to say about lucylooo passing this morning. Without much success, I guess. So I don't know, but--she was an amazing person, strong and smart and talented, and she worked her ass off for other people, her whole career was working her ass off for other people, and I can't really figure out how she can be gone. I ( Read more... )

Updates! And it hasn't even been weeks and weeks ( Read more... )

HI! So. My brain is weird lately, so I've been hermitting, but I have been accumulating a list of things that make me happy on the internet, and I thought I'd post it

* All of Minoto's weirdly sweet and sweetly weird little games. The creator/author (gender unknown?) calls them escape games but they're closer to miniature adventure games. ( Read more... )

Well, my little eleven-year-old Mazda is going to have to be retired, I'm afraid. It's going to cost $1500 to replace the oxygen sensors and the catalytic converter, both of which are toast. Without them, there's no way it'll pass vehicle emissions, which I have to do to get my 2010 tabs in May. And the car's Kelly Blue Book is $1500. There's ( Read more... )

My favorite quote from Rudy's Hero Living Facebook to date:

"Anything worth having is worth thinking about, every day, for 5 minutes, in a dark room, wearing a really huge smile :)"

As JC would have said, back in the day:"Because, yes."

:D I just have a thing for people who aren't afraid to be gigantic dorks, I guess.I know I keep promising a ( Read more... )

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You guys. So adorable. :D

&hearts _ &hearts

Yesterday, I made hummus and naan for lunches this week (I know they don't go together really, but they're so GOOD together), and this is what my house smells like:

(2 * garlic) + (bread * olive oil) + lemon = heaven I know it's uncharitable of me, but I haven't forgiven Zuckerman, et al, for the Southland betrayal, so this cracks me up, in no ( Read more... )