I need to win the lottery. When I win the lottery, in addition to living in Europe for awhile, I want to go on a vending machine tour of Japan. I remember seeing a website once upon a time about all of the crazy Japanese vending machines ( Read more... )

Eating spaghetti with a half-numbed mouth (post dental visit) is neither fun nor tasty.

So last night Annika started talking about these pens that everyone at her school has called Kookys. She said they had crazy hair and you can clip them to your badge [lanyard].


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Fuckers cancelled my order for my dad's x-mas present without contacting me! If I had known this days ago I could have still ordered it in time... Now I guess I'll just wrap up a saw and enclose the order receipt...

FUCK YOU BORDERS.COM

I just got an email (from myself!) with the subject line: Bring up a dragon in your pants.

I think that might be difficult, and quite dangerous.

The Halloween spirit passed me by this year... I usually make an attempt at an elaborate costume (sometimes I even get it right!), this year I grabbed a witch hat out of Annika's dress up clothes.... I even had a store bought costume, a whoopie cushion, that my mom bought for me but I took it back because I just didn't want to spend all day dressed ( Read more... )

For the past 3 months or so Ezra has been using a word that has had us all stumped. He screams BAAA-STAAAH! We were afraid he was saying Bastard... He screams it whenever he's impatient or wants to interrupt a conversation. We've been totally stumped. Last night I finally understood him... Basta! Enough! It's not a word we use, he must have picked ( Read more... )

Every weekday morning from 6:30-7:00 I have the same thought... I wish I lived wherever Fetch is filmed (Boston!) and that Annika could be a contestant. Actually, I wish I could relocate my 13 yo self to Boston... I would have died of happiness to have a chance to do the things those kids get to do. I love love love that show.

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Meme from nana_lanu  who got it from d_arte :
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

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They believed the Bowl ( Read more... )