Finding old toys, and being ridiculous, makes me quite happy. I tried to make a video so you could see the lights and the sounds (it makes two DIFFERENT sounds! Fancy!). I used to have the sceptre and the locket as well, but I gave away most of my Sailor Moon stuff in high school.


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Because of reading reviews of books of postcards on Amazon, I learned about a neat website called Postcrossing.



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So, I always post the books I've read so far when we get to the end of June. I've bolded particular favorites and italicized books to avoid. I do leave Discworld books out of the favorites running though, because they're all my favorites.

( Books read Jan-June 2012 )

So, I find and lose and rediscover My Drunk Kitchen all the fucking time. I love it. What amuses me most is I had a math teacher who talked just like that, only all the time, sober or drunk. I miss you Debbie, you were the best at not teaching me math.

Be aware, there's lots of drinking and swearing, and that girl is crazy cute.

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Let's just admit it, memes can bring a bit of happiness. They connect you to other people, you find out interesting things, you get into odd conversations, and they help you kill time ( Read more... )

This Etsy shop is full of old maps (and old images in general) reprinted on parchment ( Read more... )

I really like paper dolls. As a child they fed my hunger for fashion as well as my intense happiness at doing something detailed and exacting. I had a big set of Shirley Temple paper dolls, as well as a great 1920s set with four fashion types (vamp, flapper, girl next door, and some generic hot girl) and four men as well ( Read more... )

Soccer! I love soccer and I'm saturated with all I can watch at the moment.

I'm anxiously staying up tonight to see how the US does in their 2014 World Cup qualifier against Guatemala (and how Mexico does against El Salvador). Also need to find some of the friendlies played after Klinsmann before coach so I can study his coaching style mercilessly ( Read more... )

This is an article about the man who owns a massive used china/crystal/silver store. The showroom and huge warehouse are in North Carolina (I've been and it's pretty amazing to just look around ( Read more... )