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I grew up looking at my mother's architecture books, dreaming about living in some lovely modern loft or funky hippy treehouse. Mind you, my own house was nothing to sneeze at. My parents built a large house in the woods based on the design of a large 1920s Florida-style clubhouse, with soaring ceilings and skylights and sliding glass doors, so ( Read more... ) -
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Today I was at a friend's bridal shower. A woman arrived, and the bride-to-be's mon was doing introductions. When she got to me the woman smiled and said, "Oh, I know you from Facebook!" I panicked as I wondered if I was FB friends with her and had forgotten, egads. She continued, "I recognize you from things you've said on there...and that pretty ( Read more... ) -
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Mark and I had vague plans to go check out one of the Teaism shops/restaurants near us, but this morning we woke up, looked out and saw that it was all snowy out. I'm still a bit excitable around snow ("Squee, it's blowing against the glass OMG what the shit YAAAY!"), so I hopped into some clothes and went out on the balcony to try and make a ( Read more... ) -
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Last Monday, January 25th, was the 5 year anniversary of the day Mark returned from Iraq. I'm willing to say that it was the best day of my life, better even than our wedding day, because it was the culmination of so much waiting, so much desire, and so so so many tears. I think the other day that meant so much to me was the day (I've forgotten the ( Read more... ) -
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My brain is a silly old thing. Or rather, the connect and disconnect between my brain and my hands. I've posted pictures of my paintings here already, so you know the sorts of things I make. It's all kind of cute if a little weird. I must confess that I came to this style of painting a little bit reluctantly, since what I make doesn't completely ( Read more... ) -
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Since I will no longer be in a retail job in the next couple of weeks (and plan to be in such a state for awhile at least), I'm thinking that I'd like to start the New Year with a New Hair Color. I like my natural color, and it's a pity that any coloring will cover the greys that I'm so fond of, but sometimes it's fun to play and I haven't really ( Read more... ) -
loser
Gawd, I'm a loser. This has been amusing me lately. See, Mark and I don't plan on getting a real pet any time soon, but I love animals. For people like me, virtual pets are great. I even had an off-brand Tamagotchi (a Raku-Raku Dinokun, to be exact, which grew up into different dinosaurs depending on what you fed it and which I think I still have, ( Read more... ) -
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The other day as I was driving home, NPR was doing a story about the movie Brothers which looks at the impact of military deployment and death on those families left in the U.S., though photogenically portrayed by Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhal. They played a sound clip of the scene where a woman (Portman) tells her brother-in- ( Read more... ) -
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A couple of months ago Mark bought a bottle of Axe body wash. He doesn't even like this douchey soap, but they had some sort of deal where you go free XBox Live points on the bottle or something. So when I last went to visit we tried to use it up, not wanting to waste products. It didn't really smell TOO bad, but still wasn't something either of us ( Read more... )