We WERE going to buy a house, but as we began to close in on one, we started to get cold feet. Part of the issue for us is that we definitely have to leave here in 5 years (5 instead of four because I want to double major) and go to grad school. And grad school doesn't wait on you selling your house/renting it in order to pay your mortgage. Also ( Read more... )

x-posted from corgilove! :)

Zero is CONVINCED that there's a monster hiding under the covers in all beds...and he must seek it out and destroy it! I mentioned before that Zero likes to dig...


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1. PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!2. Seeing Redwood (my middle school, for those who don't know) marching in the inagural parade. It made me laugh ( Read more... )

I watched 101 Dalmatians tonight. I love that movie; it's one of my all-time Disney favs. I've been on an old-animation watching binge lately. Last night I watched The Secret of NIMH. Seriously, Don Bluth is the most amazingly talented children's film director. I've watched and loved literally all of his movies but one. I've even seen ( Read more... )

This is what is wrong with our country...and this is a reasonable, hilarious, and well-thought out way to fix it:

The Pentagon's New Map for War and Peace by Thomas Barnett
This is an itunes podcast, so you need itunes to watch it. It's FREESeriously, if you haven't listened to Eisenhower explain the industrial military complex or don't know what ( Read more... )

So I, like most people who have at some point lived in the Bay Area, have been barraged with anti-corn syrup slogans for the past couple of months. "Do you KNOW what it does to your LIVER?!?!?!" and other similar videos come to mind ( Read more... )

Thank you Mike's brother for this picture of Mike and I over Christmas. :3


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So Tanja linked me today to my wedding slideshow. This isn't all the pictures from the wedding, but it's a lot of them. Click the image below!


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I've been wanting a pressure-sensitive tablet for a very long time. I found the cintiq tablet by wacom online a while ago while researching what tablets wacom was making (because seriously, what other company is there but wacom? :P) and this thing is AWESOME ( Read more... )

The drudgery of writing college applications makes this song especially relevant to me right now. Sometimes I feel a bit like living life is like walking against a stiff wind; it helps if you've got someone to hold your hand, even if you both fall together ( Read more... )